Crime Immemorial

Jessica Shane Lankford was born on January 7th, 1969, in southeastern Mississippi. She grew up as the youngest child in her family and was particularly close to her sister Melissa. Jessica’s parents divorced when she was very young. According to an account later provided by Melissa to Project: Cold Case, the breakup divided the family … More Jessica Lankford

On the night of August 20th, 2008, an eighty-one-year-old woman was found dead inside the rural Anderson County, Texas, home where she had lived alone for years. There was no obvious sign that an intruder had forced a way inside, and investigators could find no murder weapon. The victim, Mary Waters, had suffered a severe … More Mary Waters

Eddie Ivey (spelled Ivy in some sources) was a forty-six-year-old resident of Tampa, Florida. On Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, Eddie had been at his mother’s home. At some point that day or evening, he left and began walking back toward his own residence on North Florida Avenue. There is nothing in the publicly available account … More Eddie Ivey

For nearly thirteen years, she was known only as the Fond du Lac County Jane Doe: a young woman whose badly decomposed body was discovered frozen in a rural Wisconsin creek in November 2008. Investigators knew she was young. They believed she had been dead for months and that someone had brought her to the … More Amy Marie Yeary: Fond du Lac County Jane Doe

Jeremy Lamar Long was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was only sixteen years old at the time of his death. He attended Richard L. Sanders School, a Pinellas County school serving students through specialized educational programs. Those who knew Jeremy remembered him by the nickname “Jay.” Friends described him as affectionate, sensitive, and as … More Jeremy Long

Ann Story Fox was born on November 12th, 1960, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. The daughter of Carl Louis Fox Jr. and Marcia Mansfield Fox, she attended Presbyterian College in South Carolina and later earned a master’s degree from Converse College. She moved to Aiken, South Carolina in 1988 and spent the next two … More Ann Fox Smith

At approximately nine a.m. on Sunday, March 9th, 2008, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District personnel responded to a structure fire in the 7900 block of Archer Avenue in Fair Oaks, an unincorporated community northeast of Sacramento, California. When firefighters arrived, they encountered an elderly man outside the residence. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the … More Eleanor Nichols

By February 2007, sixty-year-old Ken Gorman had spent more than a decade making himself impossible to ignore. He had smoked marijuana openly on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol, organized rallies before 4/20 celebrations became mainstream commercial events, run for governor under the irreverent nickname “Governor Pothead,” gone to prison on a marijuana conviction, … More Ken Gorman

Robert “Bob” Hatcher was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on March 21st, 1968, the son of William “Bill” C. Hatcher and Marjorie Ann Brockman Hatcher. He grew up in the area and graduated from Treynor High School in 1987 before attending Iowa Western Community College for a year. Bob spent much of his working life … More Robert “Bob” Hatcher