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In meeting with death penalty foes, Gov. Ricketts (R-NEBR) revealed the loss that shook his family
http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/in-meeting-with-death-penalty-foes-gov-ricketts-revealed-the/article_cdf90198-55a2-59ac-9c54-c52bd1074da3.html
POSTED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 12:15 AM | UPDATED: 12:28 AM, SUN SEP 13, 2015.
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau
LINCOLN — She was a young transplant from Iowa, trying to raise two children in an unfamiliar community in southern Missouri.
Then, she was gone.
Authorities have long suspected she was slain, but after 27 years they have not made an arrest. Eventually her name slipped into the cold case files, forgotten by all but a few investigators and the people who loved her.
One of those people would become the top elected official in Nebraska.
FULL story at link.