Ashley Flowers

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By the year 2000, Carl was in his late 70s, and he was sticking to the same story he gave a whole lifetime before.

No new info.

The end.

Investigators gave it another 12 years and took a second crack at Carl in 2012.

Detectives were desperate to get Carl to talk before it was too late.

They even floated the idea of possible immunity.

I mean, something that they didn't actually have the power to give.

Only the state AG could make that a reality.

Now, whether Carl knew that they didn't have the power to grant immunity is unclear.

But I wonder if he knew exactly what they were trying to do.

One paper quoted a detective who said that Carl showed no emotion and wouldn't even refer to Terry and Alan by name.

And he left detectives with a chilling statement saying,

According to the Fayetteville Observer, Carl told investigators, quote, You know, I was the last one to see them alive.

Was he saying that because after so many years without contact, it feels like a pretty safe assumption?

Or was he saying that because he knew something that we don't yet have confirmation of?

We'll never know, because that would be the last time law enforcement spoke with Carl, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 93.

Carl lived longer than Margie, who died in the early 2000s.

I hope somehow, in whatever comes after death, Margie and Melville were given all the answers that they never got in life.