Ashley Flowers

But that wasn't the case, and he was quickly cleared.

Melville never gave up hope of finding out what happened to his sons, and he went on to start his own investigation.

He followed any leads that he could find and grew desperate enough to speak with multiple mediums, hoping that they could help.

But no matter what he did or who he turned to, he appeared to end up in the same places as the Fayetteville Police Department, with nothing.

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.

Hi, everyone.

Ashley here with some exciting news.