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Sharing Chuck's love story, it was like something I had never seen.

He just loved her so much.

They just had a happy marriage.

Two weeks before she was killed, she told me she was going to make me a grandma. She never

got to have the grandbabies. She didn't get to live her life. I miss everything about her. As a mother,

I felt like I should have known something. Something should have clicked somewhere. I felt like I

let her down. If I would have known, I would have been there, most definitely. I told Sherry, going to find out who did this to her,

and that I would never give up until I did.

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. We're in I'm There's an autumn chill in the air in Aurora, Illinois, on September 9, 1981.

It's Wednesday, and 20-year-old Cheryl Lynn Hall is at home in the house she shares with her husband of two years, Chuck. As she does every week on her day off, Cheryl begins cleaning the house, doing the laundry, and preparing meals for the rest of the week. The high school sweethearts live in a townhouse in a quiet neighborhood of the Chicago suburb. Chuck's sister Jackie and Cheryl's mother Garnett recall the young couple's love story.

Chuck and Cheryl met through a mutual friend and just headed off right away.

They were just made for each other.

I think it's the first time she fell in love.

I mean, she had other boyfriends, but she knew Chuck was the one. All she wanted to do was get

married and start a family. Just a few weeks after graduating high school, Cheryl and Chuck tied the

knot. October 6, 1979, Chuck and Cheryl were married. I was the flower girl. I got to wear the pretty

dress. My brother, I had never seen him happier. Sherilyn was absolutely beautiful. She was like a

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