When a widowed Kentucky woman vanishes from her cabin home on the outskirts of a national park,

the evidence makes it clear that she was violently attacked.

The search for a beloved mother and her presumed killer spans decades in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

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Orla Eileen Barrick, who went by Eileen, was last seen alive on April 12, 1996.

She was 61 years old at the time and lived in Edmondson County, Kentucky.

Edmondson County is located in the

central part of Kentucky and is home to two of the state's best known treasures, Mammoth Cave

National Park and Nolan Lake State Park. It's a beautiful place described on the state of Kentucky's

official website as the heart of Kentucky's caveland region and rife with opportunities for all sorts

of outdoor recreation. For someone who loved the outdoors and valued the kind of peaceful life that a

well-placed home and such a place can provide, it was a great place to call home. And Eileen was exactly

that kind of person. A lifelong Kentuckian, she'd grown up in the area

and had raised her own family there.

She was a mother of four girls

who she'd raised while working hard

on her family's tobacco farm.

Eileen had provided a strong example

of hard, hands-on work for her four daughters.

To this day, they say she's the hardest working woman

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