This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

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Christy was my middle sister.

She was a very secure person and was very opinionated.

She wasn't someone who would give in, very cautious of her surroundings.

So when this happened, I'm like, she had to know this person.

There was no way she would open that door.

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.

Thank you. This is one of those rare stories. It's a chilly winter morning in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on December 21st, 1992,

and the halls of the local elementary school are buzzing with holiday excitement.

Before the bell rings to signal the

start of the first period, principal Harry Goodman notices the sixth grade teacher 25-year-old

Christy Murak is missing. Christy was never late for school. I thought, what? You know,

it was just so unlike her. So I called her apartment about five times. Nothing. I left messages, Christy, where are you? We're worried about you. And that's when I called her mother.

Christy's family lives two hours away. And when Principal Goodman asks if Christie had been back home that

weekend, her mother, Jerry, begins to worry. And she tries to call Christy at her townhouse in East Lampeter

Township. When there's no answer, Principal Goodman volunteers to check on Christy himself.

So I pull up to her apartment, and her car's cars iced over and I knew something was wrong.

And then I saw that her door was partially ajar.

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