In April 1981, the Sharp family had finally begun to find their footing in the quiet mountain community of Keddie, California. A single mother rebuilding her life. Five children carving out laughter and routine inside a cramped cabin. A family doing their best in a world that hadn’t given them many easy days.

But one spring night, Cabin 28 became the scene of one of the most haunting and devastating unsolved crimes in California history.

In this episode, we step gently into the lives of the Sharps before violence shattered their home, and trace the events of that night through surviving testimony, psychology, and documented evidence. We explore the mishandled investigation, overlooked suspects, the abduction of 12-year-old Tina Sharp, and the decades-long tangle of failures that allowed this case to slip into silence.

This is not a story about gore or shock.

Stay curious. Stay kind. And keep your lanterns lit.