Faith Morgan was only 8 years old when her mother vanished on a Wednesday and never came home again.
The family was supposed to go to Bible study that evening 35 years ago, she said. Her mother, Carolyn Jean Garmany, 29 and pregnant, had done her hair nice for church.
“‘I’ll see you guys later,'” Morgan remembers her mother saying as she left that afternoon. “I went on … not thinking anything bad was going to happen to her.”
But bad things did happen. Days later, a Dayton, Tenn., fisherman found her mother face down in nearby Richland Creek. At the time, police said she had hemorrhaged to death, and no one knew how she had gotten into the water, Morgan said.
Years went by with no leads, no new evidence, and the case stayed cold as Morgan and her four siblings grew older without their mother.