Spotlight Montana: Author highlights cold case involving disappearance of Missoula teen

Published: April 9, 2021, 9:08 p.m.

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October 17, 1991 -- that's when a Missoula teenager vanished in Deming, New Mexico, after using a pay phone at a gas station to talk to her mother.

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Fast forward to 2021. On April 4, Jennifer Pentilla would have turned 48.

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Now, on this 30TH anniversary of her disappearance, Montana author Brian D\\u2019Ambrosio dives into the case.

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He just got back from New Mexico, where he retraced her footsteps.

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In this Spotlight Montana, D\\u2019Ambrosio shares with us what he discovered in New Mexico and how he hopes officials will take another look at this case.

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