Deborah Roberts

the grisly crime to cover up all the evidence.

And the case just left the community heartbroken and, as you might imagine, a police force just struggling to try to solve this case.

Along the years, as they began to investigate, and I say years because this case did take years to solve, there were false confessions, there were

dead ends.

And then thanks to a team that just would not give up, ultimately a killer was identified, but it was 34 years later.

Well, if you saw our 2020 episode, you know, our story is centered around exclusively, by the way, an interview with Mindy Montford, who is a former assistant Texas attorney general who really helped crack this case.

Mindy is here with us now to share some details about this case.

Mindy, it is such a pleasure to have you.

Oh, my goodness.

Of course.

I mean, it's one of those that people have been talking about for a long time.

I wish you and I could be together in person, but I know you're working on lots of things out there in Texas.

But let's just start off with the case to begin with, because you worked tirelessly on this, along with other investigators, of course.

But when you came into the case, people had essentially kind of given up on it being solved, really.

But you...

wanted to just jump right into this because it kind of resonated with you.

Why was it that this case touched something in you just off the start?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And when you think about it, these girls were just a little bit younger than you were because you're right there in college thinking about, you know, somebody who could be your age.