Blaine Alexander

Special Agents Liz Bigham and Jeremy Howell.

So what are you thinking when you get this assignment?

Tell me about that first meeting, your first conversation with them.

I was shocked by—they were professional, but the amount of empathy that they expressed.

You felt something in that meeting.

I did.

Like, I believed the words that they were saying.

But Meredith and her family had seen this movie before.

So you're thinking, okay, great, they're sincere, they're kind, they care, but what are they going to do?

Right.

What were they going to do?

Well, they were about to take a new look at an old piece of evidence, and it would change everything.

It had been 22 years in the making, the case that just couldn't be solved.

Now, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agents Liz Bigum and Jeremy Howell were stepping up to the plate, determined to do what their predecessors could not.

This is a case that has been examined, reexamined.

looked at any number of different ways since 2001, why might this time be different?

And not just local, but the state law enforcement.

State agency, yes.

It was huge.

Were you optimistic going into this?