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There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

Thank you. is one of those rare stories. What we looked for when it came up, we looked for indentations in the snow,

and the first one was right over here.

Michael Gates is a Multnomah County investigator

in the state of Oregon.

This was the actual pit here, and what we're doing is we're digging a parallel ditch and then go in.

On April 19, 2005, he returns to a hole in the ground,

where seven years ago, a team of cold case detectives uncovered the remains of a woman named Kim Basil, a woman who had been missing for 16 years.

This is the first one you guys tried?

This is the first one.

Okay.

We had two holes where we started simultaneously.

Today, Detective Gates is joined by Kim's mother Carol and sister Michelle, who have made

the three-hour drive from Portland to see for the first time where Kim was buried. So I started this one,

and Gary and the rest of the guys started the other one over here. For me, she was my daughter.

She was gone for 16 and a half years.

We needed to see this.

Are you looking for some threads from the sleeping bag?

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