Beth Shelburne

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Fact check help from Catherine Newhand.

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What did it say again?

This back road is remote.

No houses or businesses nearby, just undeveloped land stretching under a bright blue sky.

I bet it was this.

There's a dirt path underneath a stretch of power lines that cuts through dense, overgrown shrubbery.

I wonder how far down the dirt road she was.

Yeah.

It's kind of pretty back here, actually.

Yeah.

There's nothing remarkable about this spot.

It's a place you drive past and not even notice.

But this is where, on Valentine's Day of 2009, some people riding four-wheelers found the body of Yolanda Chambers.

I'm still not really sure why I wanted to come here or what I was hoping to learn.

I just felt like I needed to see it.