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This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

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I remember my stepmother stating that she had to run to the restaurant.

I remember pulling the curtain out just a little bit

and I just kind of watched her drive off.

I don't ever remember doing it before.

I have over the years thought about

Mary and David and Opie and Monty

enjoy out there in that all field.

And there were just so many unanswered questions of who, why?

What kind of monster it could have been to do that to them?

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

Each one is a cold case.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

It's shortly before 12 a.m. on September 23rd, 1983.

And Leanne Raspberry, the manager at a local KFC restaurant

in Kilgore, Texas, is unwinding at home after her shift.

Kilgore was, you know, an old town, a very nice area,

wholesome families. Everybody kind of knew everybody.

And football was a big thing, you know, being in Texas

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