This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

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I think for me, because I'm Loretta's daughter,

I know she would have gone to great lengths to do whatever she needed to do for me, and she

proved that the night she was murdered.

How somebody could not make a sound through any of that, not screaming out for help.

She went through it because she didn't want anything to happen to me.

How could I just let that go?

My mom was my hero that night.

I owed it to her to do something about this.

If I could become her hero by solving this, I was going to do it.

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. Thank you. Just after sunset in Price, Utah on July 30, 1970, 4-year-old Heidi Jones is about to drift off to sleep when her 23-year-old single mother Loretta cracks open her bedroom door. That night my mom came to my bedroom and she told me

don't come out. And I believe that if I heard any sound or anything that night, I did what my

mom told me to do and I didn't go out.

Heidi wakes up early the next morning and peers through the keyhole of her bedroom door.

When I opened the door, I saw something lying on the floor.

My next vivid memory is I am out on the front porch,

and my next-door neighbor is out there digging for worms.

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