In July of 2012, two young cousins went for a summer bike ride and never returned back home. Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8 vanished from Evansdale, Iowa, and wouldn’t be seen for months. Their bodies were eventually found by hunters, but their killer has never been caught. There have been many suspects throughout the years, and even a possible connection to the Delphi murders, but their case remains unsolved.  

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