What did the first officer see when he arrived at the home?
[Tim] Donna Sue naked from the waist down,
beaten severely.
Just a gruesome scene.
It had been a sexual attack.
She had been stabbed.
It was horrific.
She had been murdered by some deranged person.
We were all in shock.
It put Carlsbad in a state of fear and panic.
It rocked this community to its very core.
We were all scared to not know who did it
and if he's among you.
[Dennis] That was very traumatizing.
How could this happen? Where is this person?
He was on the loose, and his crimes were
similar in nature.
This person may be lurking in the shadows.
If he wanted something that she wasn't willing to give,
he was not a man that was gonna take no for an answer.
Do you think she ever sensed she was in danger?
[Tim] No, it was a crime of opportunity.
Donna Sue
experienced evil at its highest point.
[theme music playing]
Hi, I'm Paula Zahn, and tonight, we're on the case
in Carlsbad, New Mexico, a close-knit community
best known for its spectacular underground caverns.
But it became the unlikely setting for
a terrifying tragedy
when 38-year-old Donna Sue Hyatt was stabbed to death
during a savage attack.
When police arrived to investigate, they were stunned
by the sheer violence.
But perhaps almost as troubling was the story that the rest of
the bloodstained evidence told.
It seemed clear that Donna Sue had been murdered by someone
she knew and trusted.
July 8th, 1987.
It was just after 11:30 on a typical night in Carlsbad
when the peace and quiet were shattered
by a terrifying call for help.
The man on the line told police dispatchers that his girlfriend
had just found her mother, Donna Sue Hyatt, lifeless on
the floor of her living room.
She entered the residence.
She sees her mother.
She freaks out.
She actually runs out the front door
to her boyfriend, yells, "My mom, she's dead, she's dead."
He calls the Carlsbad Police Department.
[sirens wailing]
[Paula] Minutes later, police arrived
and were met outside by
Donna Sue's distraught loved ones.
What did the first officer see when he arrived at the home
and went inside?
[Tim] Donna Sue, lying on the carpeting in
the living room, her shirt is pushed up.
She is naked from the waist down.
She has been beaten severely.
She's bruised. There's a lot of blood.
It's just a gruesome scene.
[Paula] The stunned first responding officer
called for the homicide team,
while paramedics, like Dennis Williams,
took a closer look at Donna Sue.
We stepped in the front door.
There, Donna Sue Hyatt lie, half naked.
She had eviscerated organs. It was too late.
We were there too late.
It was unbelievable. We were all kind of in shock.
Somebody's murdered this poor woman.
[Paula] Homicide detectives began the grim task of trying to
determine what had actually happened to Donna Sue Hyatt.
Describe the crime scene.
There had obviously been a struggle.
She had been stabbed.
She had been hit in the face numerous times
and then strangled.
[Paula] The condition of Donna Sue's clothing
and the location of the blood evidence
helped tell more of the story and led
detectives to consider a potential motive.
Because she was found nude, officers were making
the initial assumption that it had been a sexual attack.
[Paula] Police believe the entire assault
took place within just a few steps
of Donna Sue's body.
The house was very neat, very clean.
It wasn't like the house was ransacked.
[Paula] Based on the location of Donna Sue's house keys,
which were found on the living room floor,
investigators believe it was likely
that Donna Sue had been overwhelmed shortly after
she walked through the door.
Were there any signs of forced entry into her home?
There were no signs of forced entry, which immediately clued
the officers that this was a person
that she had invited into her home.
[Paula] As police carefully examined
the trail of blood evidence,
it seemed clear Donna Sue had been taken by surprise by
the sudden assault.
And once it was over, her killer simply fled through
the same door he had entered.
They discovered the actual path of the exit of the suspect.
There was some blood that had been transferred from
the living room carpeting area into the kitchen area.
[Paula] In the kitchen,
police zeroed in on a clue that led them to
believe the crime had taken place after dark.
The light was turned on in the kitchen.
There was some blood smear on the light switch,
but the fingerprints that were in the actual blood
wasn't a good print.
[Paula] Detectives also picked up another important lead when
they took a closer look at a drawer
that had been pulled open.
The one drawer that was open had utensils in it.
And through talking with Angie, the daughter of Donna Sue,
they learned that one of the knives was missing.
What did it suggest to you that the killer used one of
Donna Sue's knives to commit the murder?
That it had not been planned,
that it was merely a crime of opportunity.
-Was the knife ever found? -No.
Besides the knife, was anything missing from the home?
Yes, Donna Sue's purse was missing from the house.
[Paula] But all the evidence that
pointed towards the crime being
a random act of violence stood in stark contrast to the deeply
personal nature of the assault on Donna Sue.
Just how brutal of an attack was it?
It was messy. It was unbelievable.
There was obviously the fear that whoever had done this
was still close by.
[Paula] And investigators quickly found evidence
that supported that theory.
It was clear the killer had fled the scene on foot.
What did detectives see when they went into the backyard?
They found a shoe impression that was in the dirt.
To the east of the residence, there was a fence area,
and it looked as if the actual chain-link fence had been
pushed down.
Detectives believe that the killer exited the house,
went over the fence, into the alleyway,
and then went into the neighborhood.
[Paula] And police became convinced they were right when
they discovered blood on the damaged fence.
Did detectives believe it was likely he had injured himself
during the attack? -They thought he probably did.
That's what they were hoping for.
Whether it was through a suspect injury
or transference from the actual act itself,
they figured it was a good piece of evidence to start
moving the case forward.
[Paula] And there was more.
Police suspected that the killer's escape route
through the unlit backyard meant that he had to be
familiar with the area.
Due to the time of this incident,
it would have been dark.
And there's alleyways everywhere.
So everybody started operating out of the theory that it was
most likely somebody that was from this community.
[Paula] While officers fanned out to speak with everyone
who lived nearby,
investigators carefully bagged and tagged anything inside
the home that could be connected to the attack.
The detectives knew they were on the hunt for
a vicious killer.
And everything indicated that the investigation had to start
with Donna Sue's inner circle.
This is somebody that was close with Donna.
Stabbing is very personal.
This person may possibly still be lurking in the shadows.
It was crazy.
[Paula] The murder of 38-year-old
Donna Sue Hyatt sent shockwaves
through the small community of Carlsbad, New Mexico.
And for her loved ones, it was an unimaginable blow.
How would you describe your mother?
She was a young mother. She was a single mother.
She'd been widowed.
She loved us so much, and she spent
all of her time with us.
[Paula] After losing her husband,
Donna Sue became even more
determined to do whatever she could to make sure
her children felt her presence.
She liked to be the class mother at school.
She was the one who would come in and help the teacher plan
the class parties and things like that.
Did your mother have a lot of friends in Carlsbad?
[Michelle] Yeah, she had a lot of friends.
She loved going to church, because she like all of
the different activities that went on at and around church.
[Paula] Donna Sue had spent her whole life in Carlsbad,
and that meant the investigators on the case
knew her well.
She was a very kind person.
There was no one that ever had a bad thing to say about her.
I've been in this job for quite a while, and I don't know that
I've met anyone that was so universally beloved
by the community.
She's someone that had suffered hardships along the way,
yet she did not let that affect her personality.
She was very outgoing.
She was very loving and caring to everyone.
[Paula] And the personal connections detectives
had with Donna Sue
made the brutal scene inside her home even harder for them
to understand.
This would be the last person that anyone would suspect would
be a victim of a crime.
[Paula] Donna Sue's daughter, Michelle, was just 22
and living out of state on the night her mother died.
And it never crossed her mind that foul play was involved.
When I first heard that mother was dead, my first thought was
that it probably had something to do with her epilepsy because
she would have seizures, and she would fall.
And then when I found out that it was something so totally
different, you don't see that coming.
[Paula] And in those mind-numbing moments,
Michelle also had to find
a way to comfort her sister, Angie,
who was devastated after finding her mother.
It's been very difficult for her.
I'm sure it still is.
She's been heartbroken and scared at the same time.
Because it's scary to not know who did it
and if he's among you.
[Paula] The Carlsbad Police Department
was working around the clock to
find the man responsible and ease those fears
for Donna Sue's family and their community.
They hoped that the autopsy report might give
the investigation a direction.
What did the medical examiner conclude caused her death?
She had a broken hyoid bone where she had been strangled,
and actually, her neck had been broken.
She had been beaten severely, and then there was
the stab wound.
[Paula] The medical examiner
also confirmed that Donna Sue had
been sexually assaulted.
What evidence was actually collected at autopsy?
They did a rape kit and swabbed semen that was left
on Donna Sue's inner thigh.
Back in 1987, what could you do with that evidence?
There wasn't a lot you could do with that.
DNA wasn't a thing, and so you pretty much
just had to hold onto it.
[Paula] The grisly details in the report bolstered
investigators' theory about the type of suspect
they were pursuing.
What did the brutality of the attack tell detectives
about who might be responsible?
Initially, we look at people that would have been close to
her, maybe ex-boyfriends or somebody she had turned down
and not been interested in, in an intimate way.
[Paula] While detectives began to interview those closest to
Donna Sue about any romantic relationship she had,
officers attempted to retrace her last known movements.
Investigators had to start backtracking
the old-fashioned way.
When detectives canvassed the neighborhood,
could they find any witnesses?
They were able to locate some witnesses that were able to
provide them with some very rudimentary evidence.
There were several people that heard dogs barking.
They thought somebody had ran down the alleyway.
One lady explained that she had heard bushes kind of rustle.
One gentleman spoke about actually seeing a guy,
tall, thin, with a white t-shirt and shorts on,
running from the direction that would have been
from Donna Sue's house.
[Paula] The most important connection
in the varied stories was that
all the activity took place around 10:30 on the night
of the murder.
So that significantly shrinks your timeline,
just that information alone.
[Paula] Unfortunately, when it came to more specific details,
the accounts were limited.
It was dark, and they couldn't really give a physical
description of the suspect.
There wasn't anybody that saw the actual crime.
[Paula] The fact that the killer had
hopped over Donna Sue's fence,
scampered through bushes, and made his getaway down
a dark alleyway narrowed
the initial suspect pool to locals.
Carlsbad, it's a smaller, pretty isolated town in
New Mexico.
Most homicides that we investigate,
the statistics will show you that there's someone that
you know, someone that you're very familiar with.
She felt comfortable with this person,
and she trusted this person.
[Paula] And that left police in this close-knit community with
a troubling question.
Was Donna Sue's killer someone they all knew?
[Paula] Detectives trying to solve
the Donna Sue Hyatt murder were
desperate to find out more about what she was doing
during her final hours.
As investigators interviewed Donna Sue's daughter,
who had been living in the house at the time,
critical details emerged.
What did Donna Sue's daughter, Angie, say about
the last time she saw her mother?
She said the last time she spoke to Donna Sue,
they had had an argument about her not paying rent
and that she needed to pitch in and help.
[Paula] The heated exchange about their family finances took
place around 8:30 that night.
When it ended, Donna Sue grabbed her purse
and stormed out.
She just said she was going for a walk.
She left the house.
[Paula] It was the last time Angie saw her mother alive.
Did Donna Sue indicate to Angie
where she was headed? -No.
[Paula] Angie told police that she sat in the kitchen,
expecting her mother to return.
But after 15 minutes, she called her boyfriend.
Donna Sue's daughter decided then also to leave the house.
[Paula] When she returned around 11:30, she found Donna Sue
dead on the floor.
The final argument and the blood-stained crime scene are
memories that will haunt her the rest of her life.
She and Mama weren't getting along real well at the time.
So that leaves a lot left unsaid.
We were both heartbroken.
[Paula] The frayed relationship and the harsh words meant that
investigators would be forced to verify everything Angie
had told them.
Did Angie's story line up with all the evidence discovered
in the house?
It absolutely lined up with the evidence that was found
at the scene.
Officers consider all people as potential suspects in
the beginning, but Angie had a really good alibi because
she was with another person at the time
that this incident occurred.
It became apparent to them very quickly that Angie would not
be a suspect.
[Paula] Ultimately, the investigators
relied on the crime scene evidence
and the neighbors' sightings of a man fleeing Donna Sue's home
at 10:30 to clear Angie of any role in her mother's murder.
Police were also able to eliminate most of Donna Sue's
inner circle through alibis of where they had been
between 10 and 10:30 p.m.
Investigators now had to focus on what Donna Sue had done
after her argument with Angie, and a conversation with one of
Donna Sue's friends raised a new possibility.
They thought that she may have had plans to meet up with
someone, a man she had met while having her hair styled
earlier that day.
What did Donna Sue's friend tell police about a man that
she had met at the salon the afternoon of her murder?
Donna Sue had actually gone to the salon early in the day on
July 8th and met a man there who was having
his daughter's hair cut.
How did she describe him to her friend?
He was good-looking, that he was blonde,
he was thin, very friendly.
He's a real nice guy, she thought.
She was pretty excited about that.
[Paula] Investigators were intrigued.
The vague description sounded similar to the man seen fleeing
the area on the night of the murder.
And the lead took on greater significance when Donna Sue's
friend revealed that she liked him enough to see him again.
She did give that man her phone number and her address on
a piece of paper.
She was hopeful to hear from him in the future.
[Paula] Suddenly, investigators had a plausible scenario of how
the crime might have unfolded.
Could the man from the salon have called Donna Sue while
she was still angry from the fight with her daughter
and invited him over without thinking
about the consequences?
Did police think it was possible that the man she had
given her personal information to could have been her killer?
Yes.
This was definitely someone that piqued
the investigators' interest.
[Paula] Detectives immediately set out to find
the suspicious stranger.
How did investigators track him down?
They talked to the salon people about who he was, and they got
a name and how to get in contact with him.
[Paula] Police discovered that Andrew
was staying with his daughter
and went to her home to speak with him.
[Tim] They did a full interview with him.
Andrew told the police that he had met Donna Sue and talked
to her and that she'd given her phone number to him,
and he thought she was very nice.
[Paula] Andrew said he had planned to ask her out
until he heard about the brutal attack.
What did he tell investigators when they asked him if he had
anything to do with Donna Sue's murder?
He told investigators that he had not been in contact with
Donna Sue after parting ways from the beauty shop and that
he hadn't been involved in it.
[Paula] Police pressed Andrew for more details.
He was able to provide a very good alibi to where he was.
Could his alibi be corroborated?
Yes.
[Paula] Andrew could not have been
anywhere near the Hyatts' home
between 10 and 10:30 on the night of the crime.
That quickly cleared up that he was not involved
in the incident.
[Paula] The confirmation meant investigators were back at
square one with few leads left to follow.
It put Carlsbad in a state of fear and panic.
The fact that such a brutal murder could take place in
a residential area in a town like this,
it really rocked this community to its very core.
[Paula] Police in Carlsbad, New Mexico
believed they had already eliminated
every viable suspect in the murder of
Donna Sue Hyatt.
But detectives weren't giving up, and their frustration led
them to go back to the beginning, starting with
all the evidence found at the crime scene.
Among the items collected was a brown paper bag found on
Donna Sue's kitchen table.
A closer look at its contents revealed an uneaten fried pie
and a receipt.
The receipt was from the Circle K local convenience store
four blocks or so to the east of where Donna Sue lived.
[Paula] The seemingly meaningless slip of paper
showed that Donna Sue
had bought two Cokes along with a fried pie, but the receipt
immediately became a critical lead when police noted
the time stamp.
The purchase had taken place at 9:13 on the night of the murder.
That was roughly an hour before Donna Sue had been killed.
Police raced to the store to follow up on the lead.
When detectives questioned the worker at the Circle K,
did he remember seeing Donna Sue that night?
Donna Sue was a frequent customer of that
particular store,
and so he absolutely remembered her coming into the store
and making a purchase.
[Paula] And the clerk then added a shocking detail.
He said that she wasn't alone.
He remembered seeing a man with Donna Sue that night
inside the Circle K.
[Paula] The employee didn't recognize the man
and wasn't sure he was
even with Donna Sue until he overheard
their conversation.
Donna Sue was asking him, "What do you want to drink?"
He said, "I don't care."
And she was like, "Well, just get something."
And so he ended up coming up to the counter with soda.
And then Donna Sue paid for both the sodas
and the fried pie.
[Paula] Despite the friendly exchange,
the clerk believed that Donna Sue
had just met the man, and he explained why.
This person had been in the store trying to purchase
alcohol earlier, and they didn't sell alcohol.
And the clerk immediately made the mental note that male
must not be from the local community.
Otherwise, he would have known they didn't sell
alcohol at the store.
Did he think they looked comfortable together?
He described the situation as very innocent in nature.
It seemed to be a very casual encounter, and Donna Sue didn't
seem to be acting out of the ordinary.
[Paula] After Donna Sue paid for the items,
the clerk watched them leave.
Did he see them walk out of the store together?
He did see them exit the store together and start walking in
the general direction of her house.
At that time of night, did many people walk in the area?
[Shane] Absolutely.
There's a lot of people that go out and about at night.
But unfortunately, we weren't able to locate people that
remember seeing them walking.
[Paula] Police asked the clerk for a description of the man.
He was described as a tall, thin-built Caucasian male
in his early 20s, he had light brown to blondish-colored hair,
lighter eyes, not brown eyes.
[Paula] The timing of the encounter
and the description of the man
left detectives convinced that the stranger was responsible
for Donna Sue's murder.
With the help of the store clerk, a composite sketch was
created and released to the public.
Did police get any leads from the composite sketch that
was created?
No, there was really no leads that were what I would call
a positive lead in the case.
[Paula] The ominous face and the lack of direction
on the case was troubling
to everyone in the small, close-knit city.
And those fears quickly escalated when state police
asked the Carlsbad PD to be on the lookout for a violent
sexual predator who had escaped from prison just days before
Donna Sue's murder.
How did a man named Alfredo Jimenez end up
on law enforcement's radar?
Alfredo Jimenez had done a crime where some girls were
kidnapped, they were raped, they were murdered,
and he was on the loose.
Was it their belief he had come to Carlsbad
after escaping from prison?
Yes, he was from the area, and so police were looking at
him as a possible suspect.
[Paula] But that theory was ultimately dismissed
when Jimenez was captured
in another state, and his route documented that
he was nowhere near Carlsbad on the night of
Donna Sue's murder.
Investigators were once again back at square one.
Days turned into weeks
and then years without any new clues.
What happened to the case over time?
Kind of hit a dead end.
It's not that interest is lost, it's just there's nothing new
to follow up on -- a case like that goes cold.
[Paula] Donna Sue's loved ones slowly
began to accept that the man
who killed her had gotten away with murder.
What were all those years like when the investigation didn't
seem to be going anywhere?
I honestly had given up on ever finding out.
I had pretty much come to the conclusion that I was never
gonna know in this life.
[Paula] In most investigations, every day that goes by without
an arrest is a detective's worst enemy.
But in this case, the passage of time would
ultimately provide the lead that put police on the trail of
Donna Sue's killer.
[Paula] The murder of Donna Sue Hyatt
continued to haunt residents of
Carlsbad, New Mexico for more than a decade.
I can't think of any one particular case that people
wanted solved more than this one because of how much
she meant to the community.
[Paula] As the years passed, cold-case investigators
understood that their best chance of getting justice for
Donna Sue relied on finding a match to the DNA evidence
recovered at the crime scene.
And when the FBI created a national offenders database,
it seemed like an amazing new opportunity.
What happened when the unknown DNA profile
was uploaded into CODIS?
When it was uploaded, everybody crosses their fingers
and hope that they're gonna get results,
but unfortunately there was no hits in the CODIS system.
[Paula] Modern forensic science
also allowed the cold case team to
do a one-to-one DNA comparison with every man mentioned in
the massive file.
Did any of the original suspects match the DNA profile?
None of the DNA matched, none of it.
[Paula] The investigation was at a standstill, and it stayed
that way until 2020, when it piqued the curiosity of
Detective Tim Nyce.
I was working another cold case, and I actually saw
Donna Sue's case file on a shelf.
I started reading it, and I saw that there was good
biological evidence.
I just knew this DNA could solve this case.
I just needed to find the right angle.
[Paula] His partner, Detective Joey Landgraf,
was less optimistic.
When you reviewed the case file, did you think the case
could be solved?
I was hopeful, but the problem was the DNA had been in CODIS
since the '90s and never had a hit.
[Paula] But there was still one DNA technique investigators
hadn't explored, forensic genealogy.
We were all hopeful that this could be the key that unlocked
this entire case.
We started building family trees of who this person
could have been related to.
How tedious was the process of building out a family tree?
It's very tedious, but we were going to give it a shot.
[Paula] And that time-consuming hard work appeared to pay off
when that family tree was whittled down to
its final branch and a single name.
What was the name of the suspect you were
ultimately given?
We eventually narrowed it down to a person that was named
Michael Ruff Wigley.
What was your reaction?
It was like winning the lottery.
I remember just like jumping out of my seat.
I was just ecstatic, because we're gonna bring justice
for the family -- that is my...
goal through all of this, justice for Donna Sue.
[Paula] Still, investigators knew
the job was far from finished.
They immediately went to work trying to connect
their prime suspect to Donna Sue.
What did you learn when you researched his background?
In the early '80s, he was an enlisted soldier
in the army.
He was stationed in Fort Hood, Central Texas.
[Paula] Following a dishonorable discharge,
Wigley began a life of crime.
What did you learn about Wigley's criminal history?
[Tim] He had actually been convicted of raping a woman
in Coppers Cove, Texas,
and he was put in prison, not for very long.
He'd only spent about five years of the 12-year sentence
that he was given, and then he was let out again
in the mid-'80s.
[Paula] That was long before violent criminals were forced to
provide authorities with a DNA sample.
And it was just 18 months after his release from that Texas
prison that Donna Sue Hyatt was murdered.
As they studied Wigley's file, investigators were able to
place him in Carlsbad.
He had family that lived in the area, so he'd been there
for a brief period of time.
[Paula] Shortly after the attack on Donna Sue,
Wigley's trail came to a sudden end.
I found out that he had actually been involved in
a car crash on a train track, and he had died
in October of 1989.
I was very upset.
[Paula] But after the disappointment settled in,
the cold case team
saw another way of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that
Michael Wigley had killed Donna Sue Hyatt.
We decided to exhume his body because we needed to take
a DNA sample for the final comparative analysis to confirm
the genealogy DNA results.
We felt like that that would give us the final piece of
the puzzle where we could say without a doubt, he was
the suspect that was involved in the case.
[Joey] Donna Sue's family needed closure.
And if we had the opportunity to give them the answer as
an absolute, then we were going to do everything that we could.
[Paula] Armed with a search warrant,
detectives headed to Amarillo,
Texas, to exhume Wigley's remains.
We took him in his coffin to Lubbock to
a forensic pathologist.
What did the testing reveal?
It revealed 100% that Michael Ruff Wigley was our suspect.
[Paula] A decades-old mystery had been solved
by a team of relentless
cold case investigators, and they now had the chance to
share the fruit of their labor with Donna Sue's daughters.
What did it mean to you to finally be able to give
Donna Sue's family some answers? -It meant everything.
I don't know how to describe it.
It's probably one of the greatest things I get to do
as a police officer is tell the family when something like
this is solved.
[Paula] For Donna Sue's loved ones,
the news triggered a whirlwind of emotions.
When I learned that he had died at a young age, I was shocked,
and I cried.
[Paula] There was frustration and anger mixed with
a deep sense of relief.
It was certainly a sense of closure.
At least I have more of an understanding of
what happened.
And he didn't live a long life and continue to hurt
other people -- I was glad to learn that.
[Paula] Michelle and her loved ones
were also able to express
their gratitude to everyone who worked on the case.
Was it an emotional experience for you?
Yes, very.
I remember Michelle and Angie's faces.
Imagine waiting 36 years to find who killed your mom.
[Paula] No one will ever know exactly what happened
the night Donna Sue was murdered, but investigators
have their theories.
How do you think he and Donna Sue crossed paths?
I believe he saw Donna Sue walking.
Donna Sue was friendly.
And I believe that Michael
was a slick talker.
[Paula] At the Circle K, the convicted sexual predator
turned on the charm and asked Donna Sue to buy him a Coke.
Mama was a very trusting person.
She liked people. She talked to anybody.
She'd befriend anybody, especially people who seemed
like they needed it.
[Paula] As they walked away from the store, Wigley either
convinced Donna Sue to allow him to walk her home
or he followed her.
What do you think happened that changed the situation from
a friendly encounter into a terrible tragedy?
Michael Ruff Wigley was a man who didn't take no
for an answer.
So if he wanted something from Donna Sue that she wasn't
willing to give, he was going to take.
It was literally a crime of opportunity.
[Paula] Wigley's savagery forever changed
the small community of Carlsbad.
Many spent years living in fear.
But in the end, it's what he stole from
Donna Sue's family that has left a void
that will never be filled.
What has been the hardest part of your loss?
Mama was never there for any of our graduations,
for our weddings.
We missed her for all of the events.
But worse than that, we didn't have her friendship.
She was vibrant and enthusiastic and friendly.
And it's sad that that was taken, because everyone
who knew her loved her.
Investigators say they will continue to pursue every means
possible to solve cold cases like Donna Sue's.
They hope families know that they will never stop working to
get them the answers they deserve.
I'm Paula Zahn.
Please join us again next time when we're back on the case.