In the backwoods of Georgia, in a dilapidated house, a 49-year-old recluse named Virginia Ridley

was found dead.

A medical examiner ruled the death, a homicide.

But who would murder someone who seldom ventured out of her home?

Others found some clues in the note she had written shortly before her death.

Ringgold, Georgia, is a small rural town located at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Life is simple here.

The main street has only three traffic lights and most of the town's 750 residents know

or do business with each other.

Alvin Ridley was a well-known figure in Ringgold.

At one time he ran the town's only television repair shop.

In 1966, he married 18-year-old Virginia Hickey, and almost immediately Virginia cut off

all contact with her family.

Alvin said it was because her family was too intrusive.

Virginia's sister, Trixila Croix, says Alvin forced Virginia to stay away from her family.

I sent them an invitation to every wedding, every death, every birthing in our family,

to no avail.

Nothing was ever acknowledged, nothing.

My father's death.

My father went to his grave after making every ever possible to try to see his daughter.

Alvin Ridley had a reputation in Ringgold, and it wasn't a particularly good one.

He was known for filing lawsuits against anyone he felt had wronged him, and in the process

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