It was like a real-life horror movie.Cassie Jo Stoddart, a beautiful, smart and kind 16-year-old, was found brutally murdered in a relative’s Idaho home where she had been dog-sitting for the weekend.“There’s a girl dead on my floor,” a woman frantically told a 911 dispatcher on Sunday Sept. 24, 2006 as someone can be heard wailing in the background. “She’s missing a finger.” Idaho State Police Lt. Robert Rausch rushed to the scene, where he found Stoddart lying on the floor and “lots of blood” everywhere.The grisly murder shocked the small, quiet town of Pocatello, Idaho, where murders like this just didn’t happen. But as investigators would discover, the disturbing truth about what happened to Cassie—and who was responsible for her death—would lie in the 16-year-old’s final day alive, according to “Dateline: The Last Day,” streaming now on Peacock.Cassie was captured on video the Friday morning of Sept. 22 at 8:28 a.m. at Pocatello High School, as she was putting her books into her l...
