The house sits on a slight hill in northeast LaFayette, Georgia. Chickens milled around a white picket fence on a recent afternoon, and the water from a small creek across the road could be heard from the driveway.
Twenty years ago in June, the house on the hill was the site of a brutal slaying that remains unsolved.
Five miles away from the house on Arnold Lane, a large box sat on a chair in Capt. Burt Cagle’s office at the Walker County Sheriff’s Office.
“Back in that time, they didn’t have the capability that we have now with DNA, touch trace evidence and other means,” Cagle said. “The actual case file is all in that box. We’ve got a lot of stuff.”
The box has hundreds of pages of interviews, evidence, photos and even VHS tapes from the crime scene.