This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

It's been a rough 35 years.

Tanya will never rest in peace.

She was always the protector, and then when she was gone, I didn't have my protector anymore.

Even the bad days, she would always have a way to make everybody laugh when they really

wouldn't a whole lot to laugh about, you know.

She was just always like that.

She's got to just keep on fighting for them because they're not around to fight for themselves.

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.

Music stories. It's 3 a.m. on January 1st, 1985, in Pensacola, Florida, and a family is rushing to get its dog to an emergency vet clinic.

As they pull out of their driveway, the daughter notices something on the curb.

Childhood naivety tells her that it's a mannequin from some New Year's celebration,

but her mother knows better. Officers from the Pensacola Police Department arrive on the scene

within minutes. They find the body of a woman on the roadside by a vacant lot on Peacock Drive

and Creighton Road.

She's wearing a blue dress, and there are obvious signs of battery and possibly a sexual assault.

The woman's shoes are missing, and her clothes are dirty.

Next to her body lies a bloody blue towel.

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