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Greg and Brenda Kirkland. Brenda handled store in Corvallis, Oregon.

Brenda handled the finances, and Greg took care of sales.

Making it a true family business, the couple's infant daughter was often present.

On June 10, 1982, as the store was opening, Greg Kirkley was shot in the back.

Brenda was hysterical, and the baby was laying unharmed in her bassinet.

Was Greg killed by a stranger?

Or was it possible that the Kirkley's marriage wasn't as idyllic as it appeared?

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

I'm Brooke, and here's the sensational Bill Curtis

with a classic case, a desperate housewife.

Oh, please leave my mom. On a June morning, a woman calls 911.

An incomprehensible call, a milky shoe service.

She hung up.

Corvallis police officer Mary Eichler catches the call.

The dispatcher came on and said that they have a call from Mokie's shoe store that there's some kind of disturbance and there's a woman outside screaming.

Eichler knows the store well.

It's owned by her friends, Brenda and Greg Kirkley.

Of course, I headed there because if you have a friend that's involved, you're going to go.

Outside, Eichler finds Brenda in hysterics.

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