Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt.

You guys, there's a story out of Louisville, Kentucky that I bet you've never heard of about a woman that you've probably never heard of.

But I don't know why, because it's one of the most mysterious cases I've ever come across.

A call in the middle of the night lures a woman out of her home,

and hours later, her body is found floating in a nearby river. The list of suspects is a mile long,

and evidence keeps showing up all over town, sometimes in suspiciously planted ways. Yet, for 60 years, this case has remained unsolved. Our investigation

set out to ask the question, why. And the possibilities will surprise you. Maybe it's because

evidence in the case mysteriously disappeared. It could be because some investigators on this case

had ulterior motives. Or it could be

because the very foundation that this story was built on might be a lie. This is the story of a woman

you should know about, a passionate attorney who made strides at the height of the civil rights

movement,

a woman who was brutally murdered before she could break even more barriers.

This is the story of Alberta O. Jones. Music I'm I'm I'm

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I'm Alberta Jones didn't want to go out that Wednesday night on August 4, 1965. The truth is,

things had gotten dangerous for her recently.

She'd taken a new job and she'd been doing civil rights work that put a target on her back.

So she was being more cautious than she had ever been before.

That's why when her friend Gladys Wyckoff first called at around 11 p.m. and asked her to come over, Alberta said no.

But Gladys pushed. She was a hairstylist, too, and she practically begged Alberta to come over that night because the new

wig that Alberta wanted was ready for her. Okay, so get it any other time. Well, and maybe the real

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