20/20 returns Friday night with a two-hour deep dive into the 2010 disappearance of Bonnie Woodward, a 47-year-old Illinois mother whose vanishing kicked off a twisted case involving her runaway stepdaughter—and an ending no one saw coming.
Airing June 6 at 9:00-11:00 p.m. EDT on ABC and streaming the next day on Hulu, the episode unpacks the strange sequence of events that followed Woodward’s final shift at a local nursing home. She never returned home, and her red truck was later found abandoned. Witnesses told police she had climbed into a silver Chevrolet with an unknown man.
At first, attention turned to her 18-year-old stepdaughter, Heather, who had recently fled the family home. But as the investigation evolved, Heather was ruled out, leaving authorities without a clear suspect—and a family grasping for answers.
Nightline co-anchor JuJu Chang reports on the case, which features exclusive interviews with those closest to the story. Among the voices: Woodward’s boyfriend and niece, as well as detectives, attorneys, reporters, and jurors who tracked the case across the years.
Interviewees include Gary Wimurth Sr., Rachel Lee, Detective Nick Manns, Jennifer Schalk, Stephen Richards, Chris Rhodes, Jennifer Mudge, Crystal Uhe, Detective Mike O’Neill, and Scott Golike.
