It was early January in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, when a discovery in a quiet stretch of woods changed a family forever.

A young woman had crossed paths with a violent killer close to home.

The investigation led to a swift arrest and a conviction that should have brought some measure of justice and safety, but what came next defied reason.

The man convicted of her murder was given chance after chance to walk free,

opportunities that no one could ever justify to the people who loved her.

Each time he re-entered the world, he proved exactly

who he was. I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is the case of Peggy Flynn on Darktown East.

It was just 5, 1984,

when a young man was out riding his dirt bike through Furer Park in North Kingstown,

with his dog keeping up alongside him.

Holiday decoration still hung in the windows of some neighborhood houses, but Furrer Park itself

had settled into the quiet of midwinter. Frost clung to the grass that had long since lost its

green, and the air was sharp enough to sting his lungs as he rode. As they wove the lonely trail on two

wheels and four paws, a flash of blue caught the man's eye.

It was an old blanket, rolled and set against the slope of the wooded hillside,

strangely out of place off the seldom used dirt road.

It looked oddly deliberate, like it had been placed rather than tossed aside, but tucked beneath

that blanket was something even more alarming. The blanket had been loosely concealing the body of a

young woman. She was wearing a blue coat, but missing a shoe and sock. She'd been bound and gagged with bandanas.

A North Kingstown police incident report states that the medical examiner later found the woman

had suffered five stab wounds through her clothing. A five-inch serrated knife blade was found

still protruding from the woman's chest, but the handle was missing.

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