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

And the story I have for you today is one of the ones that will leave you furious because there should be a conclusion.

Police think that they know who did it. But because of a technicality, prosecutors won't prosecute.

So two families are left wondering what to do when the people in charge

throw their hands up and say there's nothing they can do. And be sure to listen all the way to

the end because the cracks in the system have left a predator out there walking free among us.

This is the story of Kayla Williams and Heather Higgins. There are plenty of things that parenting books just can't prepare you for.

I had literal classes as an adult, like to be a foster parent.

Nothing actually ever truly prepares you.

100%.

And I guarantee you what's not in the book is how to talk to

your 12-year-old after they discover human remains in the woods. Oh. That is exactly the scenario

one father found himself in on Mother's Day, 2012, after his son came running home telling him that

he and his two friends found something in the woods by their house in Spokane,

Washington. Now, what dad, and later the police that he calls in, find in that wooded area,

just off of a narrow walking path in a small ditch, is the upper part of a body peeking out from

between torn black trash bags. Soon, the area is swarming with officers.

Investigators are there, crime scene technicians, you name it. And one officer, as he is

standing over the remains, spots another bundle of trash bags haphazardly hidden underneath

a pile of sticks and branches about four to five feet away.

And although he can't see what's inside, it's the right size to be the other half of their victim.

Now, there isn't any blood anywhere around which tells them that whatever happened to this poor

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