Summary On April 15, 1979, 41-year-old Harriet Simmons finishes her night shift at the bar, jumps in her car and heads to Nashville for a weekend road trip. She tells her seven children that she will call the next morning when she arrives. The call never comes. The children call police and report her missing. Harriet's family searches the route the mother took and find her car abandoned at a rest stop. Nothing of evidentiary value is gained from the car and there is no sign of Harriet Simmons. Eleven months later, the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office is called when skeletal remains are discovered near the Blue Ridge Parkway outside of Asheville, NC. Simmons' missing person case becomes a murder investigation when dental records confirm the remains belong to Harriet Simmons. An examination of the bones reveals the mother died of multiple stab wounds. With no strong leads, the case goes cold. Meanwhile another crime unfolds. On August 25, 1979, 21-year-old Betty Sue McConnell is found on the banks of the French Broad River bleeding to death from stab wounds. Her car is found submerged in the river a few miles upstream. The car is pulled out of the river and searched but no valuable evidence is found.At autopsy it is determined that McConnell died of stab wounds to the chest. The Buncombe County Sheriff's Office and the State Bureau of Investigation work the case, but fail to develop any suspects. The case falls cold, and stays that way for two decades.

• Crime
• Documentary