Beth Shelburne

Both Rosa and Yolanda's friend Alicia believe he killed Yolanda and told me their relationship was volatile.

I haven't found any other evidence connecting this person to Yolanda's murder, so I'm not going to name him here.

But I look up his record and find that he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and served time in federal prison.

Alicia says when she found out that Yolanda had been murdered, she figured he'd finally learned Yolanda was informing on drug dealers.

I also learn this person was killed in 2015, and I don't know if police ever connected him to Yolanda's murder.

Rosa says after Yolanda's funeral, she had some contact with a detective in Bessemer about her daughter's murder, but she hasn't heard anything in years.

Hey, this message is for Lieutenant Clemens.

My name is Beth Shelburne.

I spend weeks trying to connect with Bessemer police to find out if there's anything going on with Yolanda's murder investigation.

I leave messages, and finally, I get Lieutenant Christian Clemens on the phone.

I tell him the same thing that I said in the messages, that I'm looking into Yolanda's murder.

He says he'll call me back.

But after two months, Mara and I decide to just go there in person.

Yeah, I'm here to see Lieutenant Clemens Shelburne.

We wait in the busy lobby of the Bessemer Police Department until Lieutenant Clemens emerges from behind a heavy steel door.

So we have both called you about this case that we were just trying to get an update on for this project that we're working on.

Yolanda Michelle Chambers.

I feel like I'm stuck in a loop.

I keep giving this guy the same information.

Yeah, we're just trying to figure out, like, why you haven't gotten back to us.