This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

Laura was always the one that put up our tree.

Laura loved Christmas.

That year, she claimed it was the best one she'd done today.

January come and most people take down their tree,

we decided we were going to leave the tree up to Laura come home.

And then you find out your child has disappeared off the face of the earth.

It's like she was never here.

I said, I'm one of these that I'm going to find her,

no matter what I have to do to find her,

whether she'd be alive or whether she'd be dead, but she's coming home.

So you can help us or you can get back.

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

Each one is a cold case.

Only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories. It's December 30th, 1999, in Welch, Oklahoma, and Lorraine Bible is waiting for her children to arrive at her workplace in Venita at 9 a.m.

So they can pick up their dad at his job and go to the dentist.

Her daughter, Laria, spent the night with her best friend, Ashley Freeman,

to celebrate Ashley's 16th birthday.

At 8.40 a.m., Lorene's son calls to tell her that there is a fire at the Freeman's house. A few hours

earlier, a local who was driving to work, spotted the flames at the Freeman's home and called

the Welsh Volunteer Fire Department. After hearing from her son, Lorene waits for more news

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