Ashley Flowers

Perhaps that heartbreak was too much.

In 1978, Melville died by suicide.

There were rumors that he kept an account of his investigation and that it had even been turned over to authorities after his death.

But as far as Lieutenant Locklear knows, that's all that is, a rumor.

After Melville's passing, science and technology advanced in a way I think many in the 60s could have never imagined.

So over the following decades, police tried to build their case in that way.

At one point, they had the boys' old home searched by a forensics team, but nothing was found.

At other points, when remains were found, hopes rose that the boys might finally have been discovered.

But every time, those remains got eliminated.

It wasn't them.

Now, sometimes time can be an investigator's best friend.

A lot can change over the years.

Memories, witness accounts, or even someone's conscious finally catching up with them.

That was actually investigators' hope when they went back to Carl Bach in 2000 and sat down with him for a new interview.

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