When someone dies, no matter how it happens, there are some questions we always ask.

How did they die? Who was with them? Did they suffer? Or was it peaceful?

Knowing doesn't change anything, but it does bring a measure of comfort, closure.

When somebody gets killed, knowing how and why takes on a bigger meaning,

a way to make sense is something scary and inconceivable.

Families of victims often talk about the need for closure,

and especially the need to know that the perpetrator has been brought to justice.

But when a crime goes unsolved, the family is left with nothing,

especially when it's gone unsolved for 20 years.

Yeah, I talked about a couple of times,

GBI, mostly, I talked about almost about eight, nine times over there.

And they tell me on the phone, we're still looking, we're still looking,

we still don't find anything there.

Vipul Patel's uncle, Salish Patel, was brutally murdered in Adel in April of 2000,

about a year and a half after Donna Brown's death at the Taco Bell.

His killer has never been found.

Then after I moved over here in 2004, so I don't talk anything after that.

Did you ever have contact with the Adel Police Department after the...

No, I contacted them, but they say GBI handled everything, so we don't have any information.

The investigation into Salish Patel's death is still officially open, officially.

But from the little information we have, it seems more likely that there was never much of an investigation at all.

And there's a chance that if there had been one,

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