This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

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All those years, nobody ever tried to figure out what happened to my sister, Lori.

Her death was not ruled as a homicide.

It was ruled as undetermined natural causes.

A 15-year-old girl is going to walk about 10 miles,

take all her clothes off in the woods,

and then walk another five miles,

naked, and lay down in a a ditch and pull foliage over her.

I never thought it would be solved, but don't ever give up.

Somebody somewhere knows something.

Now, 45 years later, I want to make sure families know there is hope.

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.

This is one of those rare stories. It's September 27, 1974, 1974, 1974 in Columbus, Ohio, and 15-year-old Eastmore

high school sophomore, Lori Nesson, has plans to go to the football game. After the game,

Lori heads to a couple of parties, and she's supposed to be spending the night with a friend.

By 11 the next morning, Lori still hasn't come home, and her 13-year-old sister, Tony, can see that her mother is worried.

Lori's mother starts making calls to her daughter's friends to see if anybody has seen Lori.

They said, no. The last see if anybody has seen Lori. They said no.

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