When a Colorado high schooler stumbles across a crime in progress, it costs her her life.

Investigators search the Rocky Mountain foothills for answers in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

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

I'm your co-host, Scott.

Maggie Long was last seen alive on December 1st, 2017.

She was 17 years old and lived with her parents and sisters in the small, unincorporated

Colorado community of Bailey, which lies in the foothills of the southern Rocky Mountains.

Although the area is definitely rural,

it's also just a little under an hour's drive from Denver,

so close enough to serve as a mountain getaway for anyone working in the city who's willing to commute.

However, that's not what Maggie's parents did.

They worked in the community they lived in running restaurants. They were

very successful, and when I say they started with nothing and worked their way to the American dream,

I mean it. Maggie's parents were ethnically Chinese and had been born in a refugee camp in

Vietnam during the tumultuous Vietnam War era. During this time, the country's government became

hostile towards their ethnically Chinese citizens. Like many Vietnamese people of Chinese descent,

Maggie's parents and their family left the country in search of stability and economic

opportunity. And when they arrived in the U.S., they set to work, striving to achieve both of those things.

As they established themselves in the restaurant world, they also grew their family.

Maggie was one of their three daughters.

In 2017, Bailey, Colorado was, of course, a far cry from the war-afflicted country where Maggie's parents had been born.

Peaceful and with a population of just 8,000, Bailey has a comparatively low crime rate when compared to the rest of Colorado, or the rest of the U.S., for that matter.

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