This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

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Me and my sister shared the same bedroom our whole lives.

We were very close.

Risa was just a beautiful person, and she had been brutally murdered.

I miss Risa every day.

But at some point, the police

put their focus on one thing

and that was that I had killed my sister.

A 15-year-old girl

had been killed

and I thought that soon

they were going to catch the person

and it was all going to be over.

But it never happened that way.

Thank you. going to catch the person, and it was all going to be over, but it never happened that way. There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America. Each one is a cold case. This is one of those rare stories.

Thank you. This is one of those rare stories. It's June 15, 1984, and Salisbury, a small town in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.

Salisbury, North Carolina is not a tiny town, but it's small, small enough where we could

run around and do what we wanted and not have to worry about anything. We had only been

out of school one full week. It was a Friday, and it was a beautiful day, a hot day in the

South.

Summer vacation is just getting started for 13-year-old Jody Trexler and her older sister, 15-year-old Risa.

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