On the website of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the GBI is a gruesome tab.

Unsolved homicides.

It's five pages long, 50 names total.

Lives cut off and reduced to a paragraph or two.

More police blotter than tabloid.

The Nisha Crowder, a 21-year-old single mom, murdered at home 18 years ago.

Mary Susan Humphrey, air traffic controller.

She died after leaving a nightclub in Valdosta back in 1980.

And then there's a man known only as Roy.

He died sometime between 1975 and 1979, maybe in Georgia, or maybe in Alabama, Florida,

Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

There's a number to call if you have more information.

Some of the entries include pictures of the victims.

Old school photos, outdated haircuts, lots of blurry snapshots, family and friends cropped

out to frame the victim.

On about half of them, there's no picture at all, just a little white box with a gray

end slash A where the face should be.

One of those belongs to a man named Salish Patel, murdered Friday, April 7, 2000, in Adel

Georgia, at a house just blocks from the small convenience store where he was working.

Tim Balch is a former police officer from Adel, and he remembers when Patel was killed,

because it was his second gruesome murder in less than two years in this town of just

5,000 people.

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