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I remember my stepmother stating that she had to run to the restaurant.

I remember pulling the curtain out just a little bit, and I just kind of watched her drive off.

I don't ever remember doing that before.

I have, over the years, thought about Mary and David and Opie and Monty and Joy out there

in that oil field.

And there were just so many unanswered questions of who, why?

What kind of monster it could have been to do that to... there were just so many unanswered questions of who, why?

What kind of monster it could have been to do that to them?

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 shortly before 12 a.m. on September 23, 1983,

and Leanne Raspberry, the manager at a local KFC restaurant in Kilgore, Texas, is unwinding at home after her shift.

Kilgore was, you know, an oil town, a very nice area, wholesome families.

Everybody kind of knew everybody.

And football was a big thing, you know, being in Texas at the Kilworth KFC restaurant.

Our biggest day of the week would be Friday because before the football games,

mothers didn't have time to cook.

The whole town was busy, busy, busy.

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