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This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

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It's been a rough 35 years.

Tonya will never rest in peace.

She was always the protector.

And then when she was gone, it hadn't had my protector anymore.

Even the bad days, she would always have a way to make everybody laugh

when they really went over what they laughed about, you know.

She was just always like that.

She's got to just keep on fighting for them,

because they're not around to fight for themselves.

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.

It's 3 a.m. on January 1st, 1985, in Pensacola, Florida.

And a family is rushing to get its dog to an emergency vet clinic.

As they pull out of their driveway, the daughter notices something on the curb.

Childhood naivety tells her that it's a mannequin from some New Year's celebration,

but her mother knows better.

Officers from the Pensacola Police Department arrive on the scene within minutes.

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