EVANSDALE -- The long-awaited documentary on the disappearance and slayings of two Evansdale cousins in 2012 is out.
Max released "Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth?" for streaming Thursday.
In the three-part series, former KWWL photojournalist turned filmmaker Dylan Sires looks back at the abduction of Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, and developments in the still-unsolved case.
The series was seven years in the making and includes multiple interviews with family members and investigators.
The documentary also takes a close look at two other double abductions in Iowa and a double abduction in Indiana in 2017.
Sires notes that one man - 42-year-old Michael Klunder - was responsible for the other two double abductions in Iowa.
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Klunder, who as a juvenile had been placed in a youth shelter in Waverly, was convicted of swiping two toddlers from outside a babysitter's apartment in Charles City in the early 1990s and leaving them alive in a dumpster 50 miles away. He also abducted 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard and her 12-year-old friend, Dezi Hughes, in Dayton in 2013, killing Kathlynn and taking his own life after the Hughes escaped.
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Police had looked deeply into Klunder as a suspect in the cousin's disappearance, but in 2014 investigators issued a statement that he had been ruled out.
They said they didn't believe Klunder - who lived 99 miles away in Stratford - could have been in the Evansdale area at the time of the girls' disappearance, but they didn't disclose the evidence they used to reach that conclusion.
More recently, investigators declined say if they still consider Klunder ruled out.
In "Taken Together," Sires revisits Klunder as a suspect, talking to a person who had seen Klunder in the Evansdale area.
The documentary also delves into the case of Jeff Lee Altmeyer of Ankeny, an inspector for an auto insurance company who traveled the state. He was convicted of kidnapping and sexually abusing a girl in Colfax and was suspected of attempting to lure children into his vehicle in Grundy County.
Press material for the series' release includes the following synopsis:
Episode 1 - The mysterious abduction of cousins Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins in July 2012 devastates two families, one of whom falls under suspicion. The mystery deepens when hunters find the girls' bodies.
Episode 2 - Another shocking double abduction, not far from the location of the Evansdale case, sparks fear in the community and puts Michael Klunder, a local, under the spotlight. Dayton abduction survivor Dezi Hughes gives an exclusive interview.
Episode 3 - Filmmaker Dylan Sires continues to search for new information and investigate all angles to help Elizabeth's father. New details come to light, which leads to Drew Collins confronting a man who could place a suspect in Evansdale around the time of the murder.
"Taken Together" was produced for Investigation Discovery by Maven Creative Media.
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