In cases like this as you well know you are reopening extremely deep wounds and bringing back hurtful conversations pain, and then at the same time, inadvertently, possibly giving

them hope. I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anaseika Lazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries true conviction.

And this is anatomy of murder. There is an anatomy of murder.

There is a universal question most if not all parents ask themselves on a regular basis.

Have I done enough to prepare my child for the world?

Am I keeping my child safe?

And it points to a fundamental dilemma of being a parent. You spend your life teaching your child to be independent and self-reliant.

But when it's time for them to leave, you really hate to see them go.

But leave they do for college. leave, they really hate to see them go.

But leave they do.

For college, first jobs, first departments, and to raise families of their own,

it can be exhilarating and terrifying. In July of 1990, 18-year-old Barrett Beck was a high school

graduate from Sturtavant, Wisconsin, and like many other young people she had

secured a summer job to help earn some money for college.

For a lot of teenagers a summer job might mean working at an ice cream shop or the local swimming

pool.

But Barrett was starting her first quote unquote real job, one that

entailed a professional wardrobe, a short commute to work, and even some out of town travel to

attend a three day job training seminar in Appleton, Wisconsin roughly 130 miles away.

Barrett had just taken on the new job and was assigned to go to this conference,

of which her parents were a tad reluctant for her to go, but of course it had to do with her job.

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