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In July of 2012, two girls disappeared in Evansdale, Iowa while riding their bikes.

Police set out looking for them right away, but despite an exhaustive search, receiving tips from locals and finding CCTV footage of the girls,

all the investigation turned up with their bikes. Five months later, both of their bodies were found.

But was this the work of a serial killer or some other predator hiding right under everyone's noses?

This is the story of lyric cook and Elizabeth Collins, also known as the Evansdale murders.

Lyric Ray Lynn Cook Morrissey was born on October 2nd, 2001 to parents Dan and Misty Cook Morrissey in Waterloo, Iowa, which is the small city that Lyric spent her whole life in alongside her older brother Dylan, who she was extremely close with.

Lyric attended Kingsley Elementary School and had a large local community of extended family, including her grandma's and great grandma, ten aunts and uncles and tons of cousins.

But things weren't always easy for Lyric at home. Both of her parents struggled with addiction and had had some run-ins with the law.

Her parents eventually wound up separating so she spent a lot of time staying at her grandma Wilma's house in the smaller city of Evansdale,

which is located in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls metropolitan area, so very close to her hometown anyway.

But despite the trouble at home, her mom described Lyric as, quote, a very special young lady.

In the obituary commemorating her tragically short life, she's remembered as, quote,

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