Hi, crime junkies, Ashley Flowers here, and on a Thursday, I wanted to drop into your

feed to tell you a little mini story of a case that I've become obsessed with over

the last year.

I don't have enough to do a full story, but I figured that your curious crime junkie

minds work like mind do, and you want to know everything I do.

So let me tell you about the murder of Denise Johnson.

A year ago, I met an investigative crime reporter named Delia D'Ambra, and Delia told me about

the one case that haunts her most, a case from her hometown that she's devoted the last

two years of her life to solving, and I couldn't help but get sucked in.

Delia grew up in the outer banks of North Carolina, which before this story, I didn't

know anything about until I visited there myself after I became obsessed with this case.

The outer banks are made up of a bunch of like little small beach towns right on the water,

and most of the big homes there are either rentals or at least rented out to vacationers,

but there is a small local population that stays there all year round.

Delia was one of those locals growing up, and she grew up hearing about another local

who was murdered when Delia was just a young child.

And it was a woman named Denise Johnson.

In 1997, Denise was 33 years old, and at the time, she lived in this little two-bedroom

cottage in the town of Kil' Devil Hills with a female roommate who had just recently

moved in.

Now, the cottage was extra special to Denise because it was the same house that she grew

up in as a young child, and they had managed to keep it in the family all these years later.

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