When a Maryland teen is abducted and murdered on her way home from school, the tragedy leaves a lasting impression on her community.

Cold case investigators persevere decades later, striving to identify a killer they believe is still in the area in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime

storyteller by night. As always, I'm your co. Scott. This is the revisited and enhanced edition

of one of our early episodes, which features the Unsolved Homicide of Lori Zimmerman. The original

edition was recorded in 2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode on her case in 2025.

As I'm sure those of you who've been listening since the early days of Last Seen Alive have noticed,

our production and audio quality have improved significantly over the years.

Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes.

When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best

we knew how at the time. However, our best wasn't the best, and we've learned a lot since then.

We want to honor those victims by telling their stories with the production quality they deserve.

So, we've been completely remaking all of our early episodes, including this one. And I'm excited

to be covering this case

again because it's a case, the only case we've covered actually, for my original hometown.

Yeah, when you were doing your intro, I was questioning if this was the case that your parents

had mentioned to us. Yeah, so this case was originally brought to my attention by my mom,

who saw an old unsolved mystery segment on it,

and she was excited to tell me about the case because she remembered it. It had happened in her

hometown when she had been a high school student, and the victim had been a high school student,

too, a girl her own age. And what happened to her had shocked the entire community,

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