It was a cool October day in 1982. The cheerleaders at Parsippany High School, in New Jersey, were gearing up for one of the biggest games of the year and looking forward to fall break. But all of that excitement would come crashing down when one of their own was found dead in a rural area on Thanksgiving day.

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