This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Use your best judgment.

On June 10, 1986, Jeanette Kirby followed her normal routine like she would have done

on any other Tuesday. She got up, went to work, and after work, she went for a walk right

around sunset. It was something she had done before, many times. But this time, something

went terribly wrong. Jeanette went missing somewhere along her walking trail in the

Michigan wilderness. No one heard her saw a thing, but she didn't come home that night.

And the next morning, Jeanette's mother Muriel waited for her daughter to arrive for breakfast,

like they had planned. Jeanette didn't show up. And Muriel would never see her daughter

alive again. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

Muriel Kirby didn't let panic get the best of her. When Jeanette didn't show, she assumed

there was a simple, logical explanation.

Things were getting serious. It wasn't like Jeanette to skip work, especially without

at least calling first. But still, Muriel held out hope that her daughter would walk through

the door with an explanation. The next morning, two days after Jeanette was last seen, her cousin

Nancy had a sudden thought. Jeanette loved to go walking in the woods, and she could have

gotten lost up there in the dense forest. So, Nancy and Muriel head up to Jeanette's favorite

trail, Riverbed Park. Hoping there might still be a simple, harmless explanation for Jeanette's

disappearance. What they found pointed to something much worse. Jeanette's car, with a parking

ticket timestamp just hours after Jeanette was last seen. She'd come to Riverbed Park,

gone for a walk, and hadn't returned to her car in two days. Nancy remembers what that

realization felt like.

At one point, there was hope. You know, there's a car. There's a car. But I knew there was, I knew it didn't look good. I knew there was something drastically wrong.

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