Blaine Alexander

The facts, almost two decades later, were hard to face, but still better than not knowing.

Virginia realized the absence of facts had sent her suspicions in the wrong direction, like her ex-husband.

She says she never would have insisted police investigate him if she'd known the whole story.

We didn't even know about, you know, the sexual assault at the time.

Keep that in mind.

We didn't know about the stabbing.

Griffith told Meredith about his number one person of interest.

He gave me the maintenance man theory, but it was still a theory at that point.

He also shared something else, something no previous investigator had ever said.

He told me absolutely Chris didn't do it.

That was huge news.

For years, their family had shunned Chris.

I felt guilty knowing that he suffered in silence and that we never reached back out.

and knowing what all he had gone through.

By now, any student who knew Tara Baker firsthand had long left.

With each new class, her murder became more like a memory passed down through campus memorials or newspaper articles.

That's how a young freshman named Cameron J. Harrelson first heard her name.

It was an anniversary piece like that the red and black newspaper had done on her death at the time.

You were a true crime fan yourself?

A few years later, Cameron decided he wanted to launch his own podcast.