Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Brett.

And today's missing person case was suggested by a listener at the meetup I did in Austin.

She actually suggested I cover one of their most infamous missing person cases.

It was a case I'd heard of, but I hadn't realized that in the last couple of years or so,

there had been some significant developments.

And police are looking for help from the public to get that one piece of additional information

that can finally solve this 16-year-old cold case, the case of Rachel Cook.

At the time of our story in 2002, Rachel was a 19-year-old college student who was attending

school in San Diego.

She was originally from Georgetown, Texas, which is just a little north of Austin.

And in 2002, it was considered a small town.

Rachel's family lived in a little house that was set far back from the road, and everyone around

her had land.

The house is all sat on like one to five acres of property.

And having established their family in this like small town America, Rachel's parents

were a little nervous when she said that she wanted to go away to Big Bad San Diego, California

for school.

They considered it to be a big city, bad things happen in big cities, and they never could

have imagined that it would be there in Georgetown, Texas, where Rachel was home visiting for

winter break that something bad would happen to her.

Rachel had come home for winter break from San Diego with her new boyfriend in tow.

His name was Greg and they'd met while attending school, and Rachel was head over heels for

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