Ashley Flowers

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.

But now, there is no one left in the Westerfield family pushing for answers here, which is why I think it's so important we don't forget Terry and Alan Westerfield.

DNA is on file for both boys if remains are ever discovered.

Their mother had kept locks of their baby hair, and she also provided a DNA sample for comparison.

Their disappearance remains the Fayetteville Police Department's oldest unsolved case.

But that doesn't mean it's too late for justice, which for Lieutenant Locklear doesn't necessarily mean an arrest.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Terry and Alan Westerfield in September of 1964, please get in touch with Lieutenant Jeff Locklear directly at 910-433-1960.

Or if you'd like to remain anonymous, you can call the Fayetteville-Cumberland County Crime Stoppers at 910-483-TIPS.

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Happy Friday, crime junkies.

I feel like someone down at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office might have listened to our most recent episode, or maybe the timing is just a crazy coincidence.

But a couple of hours ago this Friday, the sheriff's office finally fulfilled our records request and got us the audio from Dave and Laura Sweetman's domestic violence incident.