In the suburbs of D.C., a woman fails to show up for work and is found brutally murdered.

I wonder which emergency.

We just walked in the door, and there's blood in the foyer.

For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible.

A new series from ABC Audio in 2020,

blood and water.

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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to 2020 The After Show.

So good to have you with us.

I'm Deborah Roberts. And today we're going to talk about a story that I have to tell you I haven't been able to shake. And I think it's going to be hanging around with you for a while, too, after you hear the details. I'm going to take you inside my reporting of a story that just aired on Friday night for 2020 called The Secret in the

Water. I traveled to Willard, Ohio to learn more about this unbelievable story, one that took

two agonizing decades for the family involved to finally see some sense of resolution.

In this piece, we told you about 25-year-old Regina Hicks, a young mom who was

on her way to pick up her son from her estranged husband, but was never heard from again.

Well, as you might imagine, her family was desperate to find her. They were calling her phone

all that night and the next day and nothing. Sadly, just four

days later, Regina's body was found submerged at the bottom of a pond only a few miles from her

home. And of course, the big question was, what happened? Did she lose control of her car?

There were a number of theories swirling in this small town,

including one that maybe she had taken her own life or that maybe somebody deliberately and

calculatedly murdered her. Well, this case went unsolved for quite a while. Police were

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