This is the second episode in our season, covering missing persons and unsolved homicides across the southeastern United States.

This episode discusses drug use, violence, and crime scenes.

Listener discretion is advised.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee's own.

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

This is the fall line.

Last episode, we began the stories of Larisha Dina Walker and Wanda Faye Walker, mother and daughter who disappeared 17 years apart, and apparently unrelated instances.

Their family, Dina's son, Wanda's other daughters, their father, cousins, aunts, uncles,

and so many other people across Nashville have been waiting for answers. Dina was only 23 years old

in 1999 and mother to a two-year-old, Ray Vaughan. She was working for a temp agency and living in a

duplex apartment in East Nashville. According to her sisters, Lakeisha and Simica, having

Ray Vaughan had settled Dina and focused her on the future.

She'd had a stressful fall, going through a court case with a family member that had been

delayed until the following January. Detective Filter of Metro Nashville PD also told us that

there was the possibility that Dina may have been tapped to testify in another unrelated criminal trial as a

witness. In that situation, there may have been pressure on her to refuse to share what she may

have known with prosecutors or even to prevent her from testifying at all. On November 19, 1999,

Dina met her older sister Lakeisha and their younger sister, Samika, at their

father's home. The sisters spent time with Lakeisha and Dina's children, and their father, Sydney,

took Dina's car to the gas station. He wanted to make sure that her tank was full, because she was

driving to nearby Murphy'sboro in the morning to have her car repaired,

and he didn't want her to have to stop on the way for fuel.

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