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Berlinger: Chillicothe, Ohio,

once a bustling industrial center known

as Ohio's first capital,

but today,

this town has become more

than just another notch in America's Rust Belt.

Woman: It's a dark mystery in this small town of Chillicothe.

Man: Six women have disappeared over the past 13 months.

-Tameka Lynch... -Charlotte Trego...

Man: Tiffany Sayre, Wanda Lemons...

-Shasta Himelrick... -Timberly Claytor.

Berlinger:: Six young women go missing in Chillicothe.

Four of them are found dead.

Woman: I found a woman's body in the crick.

-Is there a serial killer? -A serial killer...

Man: It could be the work of a serial killer.

I'm Joe Berlinger.

I'm a documentary filmmaker and an activist.

I have fought against injustice and corruption

and used the power of my camera

to give a voice to the voiceless.

Now I'm investigating a ruthless drug underworld

and a series of disappearances and murders.

There's a lot of sick men out here.

Woman: He looked me dead in my eyes and told me,

"How does it feel to know this could be your last breath?

Ruth: There's somebody out there that knows what went on,

but they just won't tell because they're scared.

-So we pay to our father... -He put the gun to my chest,

and he said, "Live or die?"

Woman: Everybody who knows information and tries

to come out and talk about it, they end up dead.

Man: He gave her a hot shot of heroin.

Woman: And I said, "I know who your son is,

and I know what he did, too."

Sam: If she's out there,

please just let her go and let her come home.

dd

[ Horn blares ]

Lytle: Chillicothe's your typical,

quintessential small-town America.

"Everybody kind of knows everybody" type atmosphere.

When I left the military in 1994, my wife and I,

the one thing we wanted to do was move back home,

move back to Chillicothe.

Throne: This is a paper mill town.

People had grown up with their grandfathers

and their fathers working at the paper mill.

But it's changed quite a bit.

[ Bleating ]

[ Auctioneer calling ]

dd

Yeah, I can remember as a kid walking down

and being able to get penny candy

with pennies my grandpa had given me.

But now, you know, I have a son,

and I don't let him walk around by himself.

Woman: I just don't know what's happened to this town.

This town is just not the same.

Man: Six women mysteriously disappeared.

Four of them have turned up dead.

Man #2: Many in this community are on edge

with so many women either missing or dead.

Man #3: The FBI is stepping in to find answers here

and also bring closure to these cases.

Berlinger: Starting in May 2014,

six young women go missing

in the small town of Chillicothe, Ohio.

With in a year, four of them are found dead.

Woman: They was all good-looking girls, pretty girls.

We've lost some of that innocence that we had

for so many years.

Everything started going crazy here.

Berlinger: When I learned that a string of unsolved murders

and disappearances are plaguing the small town

of Chillicothe, Ohio,

I decide to head out with my documentary crew

to find out what happened to these women

and why they're cases remain unsolved.

We traveled to Chillicothe

to meet with the victims' families.

Experience has taught me that my camera can often open doors,

allowing me to go places that the police can't.

How you doing? -Oh, okay.

Berlinger: Our first stop is at a meeting with the victims' families.

My name is Yvonne Boggs.

I'm Charlotte Trego's mother.

She disappeared in May.

It got to the point where I didn't hear from her,

and it was almost two weeks,

so I knew there was something wrong.

She always kept in touch.

She told us that she would call us tomorrow.

Well, you know, I never heard anything.

And another day went by, and I never heard anything.

I just love her. I want her home.

She's missed very dearly.

I feel everybody's pain. I'm Tiffany Sayre's aunt.

She went missing May 11th.

And she could still be out there.

We still don't know.

It's very discouraging --

very discouraging every single day, not knowing.

She said, "I'll be back at 12:00."

I said, "Okay."

She promised the girls ice cream.

Tiff never did show up.

Beautiful girl, only 26 years old.

If she's out there, please just let her go

and let her come home.

I -- I miss her dearly. I really do.

My name's Angela Robinson.

Tameka Lynch is my daughter.

My daughter came by at least every single day.

She was my best friend. We were that close.

The last day that I saw her was May 13th,

My parents and I traveled from county to county.

I went to the Chillicothe Gazette.

I went to the radio station.

We got the word out.

It wasn't our law enforcement.

They weren't even looking for her.

Woman: They didn't care.

-No. -I think the police --

they seem to over look that all of us mothers saying,

"No, our daughters don't just do this."

They don't just disappear without calling.

Hansen: Unit 10 to Unit 27, what's your 3-9?

[ Police radio chatter ]

You don't want to patrol through neighborhoods fast

because you're gonna miss everything.

I try to keep it as slow as 2 miles an hour

and usually no quicker than 10.

Lytle: When we look at the totality of this investigation --

and when I say totality, I mean all six of these cases --

and how closely they can be tied together,

the possibility of a serial killer

is a real possibility.

Then you tie in the element that, you know,

Tameka Lynch was found in water.

You look at Shasta Himelrick that's found in water.

So I think those things tie in the thought that it --

that it could be a serial killer.

Man: Headquarters, what's the signal seven again?

We're still receiving leads.

We're still getting tips that,

you know, it could be this person,

it could be that person.

[ Siren wails ]

Man: ...suspicious person...

Hansen: The truth of the matter is I'm a policeman.

I work a certain amount, a number of hours a day,

and then I'm not here.

I don't see all the things

that citizens see in their communities.

I can't know everything

that's going on in their communities

because there may only be three or four officers

patrolling the city at any one time.

Sarah, are you ready to get on this?

Yeah.

Jess, you got a minute to sit in, too?

What a mess.

So, we still don't have anything resolved

for Tameka Lynch or Tiffany Sayre.

And, uh... -Charlotte.

Throne: Charlotte is still missing.

It is absolutely overwhelming.

We'd go through the police reports every day,

and we knew that any new

report could be another in the series.

Will it be me taking pictures?

Well, is anyone else available?

Things just went, you know,

really, really fast and at a pace that a small newsroom,

you know, has to really try to keep up.

Print story will be capped with sort of a spin forward

and then hit the highlights. -Yeah.

Throne: I've used the phrase "drinking from a fire hose,"

and at some point in time as a newsroom,

we look at each other and say, "What's next?"

I'm-a take you down to the alley

where supposedly she was last seen walking home.

Is that okay with you? -Sure.

Berlinger: On May 11, 2015,

Tiffany Sayre goes missing three blocks from her home.

Um, Jessie Sanford was her best friend.

She was the last one to see her alive

on May the 11th, last one to talk to her.

-Which is Jessie's house? -Let's see.

I think it's this one right there with the fence.

She would come from Jessie's,

come down the sidewalk, down through the alley,

and straight to her grandmother's.

As you can tell, it's a short distance

as a walk for her.

We don't understand why or how she could've went disappearing.

We think maybe that there's something else

that we're not being told.

-What do you think happened? -We don't know.

We need answers, and we need justice.

Maybe we could be in danger.

The person could still be out there.

Show Grandma again.

She called me at 11:28.

She said, "Grandma, I'll be my way home."

Tiff never showed up.

I left my porch light on. I was up part of the night.

I didn't hear any more out of Tiff.

They were at Jessie's,

and it's not a three-minute walk over here.

So I know something was going on.

Had to go on.

Nobody knows Tiffy like I did.

Berlinger: 'Cause you raised her.

Exactly. I raised her since she was a little girl.

I know there's somebody out there that knows what went on,

but they just won't tell because they're scared.

They're afraid to talk.

I am, too.

But I'm hoping and praying

we find out what happened to my granddaughter

'cause if not, it's gonna kill me.

It's really gonna kill me.

Berlinger: This documentary series is unfolding in real time.

No one, including me and my crew,

knows where this investigation will take us.

But we owe it to these women

to try to find out what happened to them.

dd

Berlinger: I return from Chillicothe with more questions than answers,

but one thing is clear.

I need some help to move this investigation forward.

Angela Clemente & Associates, this is Angela speaking.

Hey, Angela. Joe Berlinger.

How are you?

Hey, good. How are you?

-Long time, no speak. -[ Chuckles ] That's true.

How you doing? -I'm good.

Um, I'm looking at a case that I may want your help on.

Young women who have gone missing clustering

around Chillicothe, Ohio.

There's talk of a serial killer. -Huh.

The parents feel like they're being neglected,

that there's no action, no investigation,

and nobody cares.

That sounds interesting.

Look, there's... -Yep.

I think it makes sense for us to just say,

"We're investigating the missing women.

Can we do an interview?"

Yeah, I think that -- I think it's a good idea.

Berlinger: I've known Angela Clemente for years.

She's a forensic intelligence

analyst who has worked with the White House

and the Department of Justice.

Her specialty is cracking complicated cases

involving victims of violent crime.

I would say we interview all of them

and see what their answers are,

kind of look at their demeanor,

look at their behavior, and then go from there.

Angela and I meet with Yvonne Boggs,

the mother of Charlotte Trego.

Charlotte was the first woman

reported missing in May of 2014.

Berlinger: You know, for me, when I make films

about these kinds of cases,

it's kind of peeling back the onion

and a process of discovery.

So tell me -- how does it fit into your process?

I'm gonna do something called a victimology.

What that entails is trying

to get a good handle on the background,

how she grew up, who here friends were,

who she hung around with.

Was she having any problems

with anyone prior to her coming up missing.

Yeah.That could give us some answers.

Yvonne Boggs last saw her daughter,

Charlotte Trego on May 3, 2014.

-This is Charlotte's room? -Yeah.

These are pictures of her children.

-Yeah. -The little baby.

Boggs: Charlotte has two children --

Chloe and then her son, Taylon.

She loved her kids very much.

And her kids was the world to her.

Charlotte growing up, she was kind of a tomboy.

She liked to play in the creek

and play hide-and-seek, climb trees.

She's a very outgoing person.

An easy person to get to know.

-That's her? -Yep.

-Goofing around? -She always did.

-Was she like a little clown? -Yeah.

Yep, making little fishy faces.

Boggs: But she lost her dad at an early age.

And that's kind of when she started going downhill.

Berlinger: How did she get involved with drugs?

[ Horn blares ]

She started taking the pills,

I'd say, when she was maybe 14, 15 --

after her dad passed away.

And she kind of got in with the wrong crowd.

I wasn't aware of it for a couple years.

It went from pills to, I guess, cocaine.

And last eight months

before she come up missing is when she started the heroin --

six to eight months.

The last time I spoke to her was on the 3rd of May.

Charlotte had called me

and told me that she had to find a place to live.

And I said, "Well, Charlotte, you're always welcome here.

I just don't want you bringing any drugs here."

And the last thing she told me was she loved me

and she'd talk to me later.

Whenever I would think about Charlotte,

I would just pick up the notebook and write

whatever I thought I wanted to tell her.

June 5, 2014 -- "Today's your birthday.

I can't even tell you 'Happy birthday' or give you a card.

You just don't know how hard this is for me."

I went in to file a missing report.

I told them, I said, "There's something wrong."

And the first thing out of his mouth was,

"Well, girls like that just disappear because they want to."

I said, "What do you mean, girls like that?"

Said, "These girls that's on drugs."

I said, "Hey." I said, "I know my daughter

well enough to know

that she's not just gonna take off

and not call me, not get in touch."

Her purse is hanging there on the head of her bed.

Clemente: Okay.

But law enforcement never... -No.

...never asked for the purse,

never came to get it, never tried to --

Did they come in here? -No.

-They never came in here? -No.

At all?

Boggs: I did tell them that I had it. And I said,

"It's not like her to go anywhere without her purse."

-Angela, does that sound right? -I'm very surprised.

If that person is missing and there is a purse there,

you're gonna want to go through that.

You're gonna want to see -- are their fingerprints in there?

You want to process it the proper way.

Berlinger: What do most of the victims' families say about the police?

They don't think too much of them.

The cops has told me all along,

"We're trying our best."

But I've kept feeling

like they was just shoving it under the rug.

Lytle: Missing-persons cases in adult cases are very difficult

because if an adult wants to go missing, they're allowed.

There's nothing that prevents them from saying,

"Hey, I'm just going off the radar,

and I don't want anyone to find me."

In the Charlotte Trego case, we're looking at an individual

that was friendly with people,

was highly thought of in her circle of friends.

But we're still dealing with an individual there

that was involved in drug use

and was prostituting to support that habit.

So there was not a lot of alarm until Tameka goes missing.

Now we have a second missing-person case.

Berlinger: On May 19, 2014,

Tameka Lynch goes missing from downtown Chillicothe.

Five days later,

her body is discovered 28 miles away from town.

Man: Detectives say the body of a woman

discovered in Paint Creek

on Saturday near Bainbridge is Tameka Lynch.

Investigators took her fingerprints

to compare to the badly decomposed remains.

I can't sleep. I can't eat.

I just want my daughter back.

Man: Tameka was also a mother.

Family members say Tameka has three children --

two daughters and a son.

One of the hardest parts, they say,

telling the kids their mother won't be coming home.

Now, Tameka, whose parents we're gonna go see now --

Tameka was the first body actually found,

so I think these parents are gonna be feeling pretty raw.

Obviously, we need to be sensitive,

but you have to ask the hard questions.

So we'll have to see how open they are.

Berlinger: So what is this area?

This is our Tameka room.

Clemente: Wow, she's beautiful.

-Thank you. -Absolutely stunning.

And these are Tameka's kids.

Which one is the oldest?

Jeremy is the oldest and then Kalia and Jayona.

And Jayona. How old are they?

-Now they're 12, 7, and 8. -Okay.

Both the girls act just like their mom.

[ Laughter ]

-Yes, they do. -Very outspoken.

Robinson: She was an amazing mother.

Her kids knew that she loved them.

And that's when the problems start as far as the drugs.

Did she do any kind of drugs before?

None. She never drank alcohol.

She didn't smoke cigarettes.

She didn't do anything. Nothing.

And started taking more than what she was supposed to.

-And so, what happened? -So she got cut off.

So they stopped giving her the percocets.

-Mm-hmm. -And yet, she was addicted.

Mm-hmm.

And that's when the heroin started happening.Yeah.

And I didn't want to believe it.

I said, "No, not Tameka, not Tameka."

I about lost my mind.

From that point on, everything just went down hill.

Her whole future just went down the drain.

The last day that I saw her was May 13th.

We went to the police department

to fill out a missing-persons report.

They didn't take me serious.

They acted like,

oh, she does this all the time.

No, she'd never done it in her entire life.

That was a lie right there.

Lytle: Some of the families feel like that law enforcement

haven't taken these cases serious.

We understand that. They use that, you know,

their daughters were drug addicts

or their daughters were prostitutes --

that's all we can see them as.

But any time you conduct an investigation,

you have to with an open mind

and try to let the evidence guide you.

So, the alley that we're entering here

is the area

where Tameka Lynch was last seen.

In Tameka's case, we know that she had some health issues

that drove her to beginning to take opiates.

And eventually, she became a heroin addict.

And on top of that, you know,

she began prostituting in order

to support that heroin habit.

So we know the type of lifestyle that Tameka Lynch was living.

Individuals we've spoken to said

that she got into a vehicle with an individual

that she was actively prostituting at the time,

and that's the reason she got in the vehicle

with that individual.

We'd like to think that we're on the verge of breaking the case,

but reality is we still have to find out,

you know, what exactly might have happened

and how she ended up where she did.

Maybe this is bigger than what we initially had thought.

Woman: Tameka Lynch's body was found in the river.

Investigators are waiting on autopsy

and toxicology results

to tell them more about how Lynch died.

Berlinger: Tameka's case still has many unanswered questions.

What caused her death?

And who was with her when she died?

She had socks on,

I think was the only thing that she had on.

Throne: The autopsy showed that Tameka Lynch

had died of a multiple drug overdose

and that her body had been thrown in the river

after she had died.

It's very difficult to move a human body,

so evidence points to that

there's more than one individual that's responsible.

Still to this day, don't have a complete resolution

as to what happened.

[ Sniffles ]

We're gonna figure this out.

Oh, I hope so.

There's always a clue.

Trust me.

Berlinger: It seems our biggest lead is the fact

that both of these women were caught

in a vicious cycle of addiction and prostitution.

The difference is Tameka Lynch has been found dead,

and Charlotte has not been found to date.

I know that they ended up finding Tameka dead out there.

Woman: Boggs tells us it scared her

when Tameka Lynch's body was found in the river

after she, too, had been reported missing.

Boggs: Charlotte had met Tameka through mutual friends.

I was told they was all at a party together.

And that's the last time anyone had seen her.

There's just so many different rumors I've heard.

You know, most of the folks that we've talked to tell us

that, you know, there was a definite link

between Charlotte and Tameka.

You know, it's sort of like concentric circles

that sometimes intersect.

It is known that they were involved in the drug habit,

so we know that links them together.

We also know that they were involved in prostitution,

which goes along with the drug habits,

so we know that links them together.

There is a real possibility that Charlotte and Tameka,

um, could have died together.

They don't care about none of these women.

They just figure that's one more --

what do they call them -- dope addict,

drug prostitute out of their hair.

Someone they don't have to deal with.

I think they're incompetent, and I don't think they care.

I wonder if they was down this street yesterday.

We're passing out fliers again.

Did you know any of the girls that was missing?

Woman: I did not know.

-You didn't. -I mean, I know of them,

but I never knew any of them personally.

Boggs: Okay.

You're welcome.

It was forever for the detectives to get a hold of me.

And finally, I said, "Can I get a copy of the poster

that you put out for Charlotte?"

And finally, he brought this poster out

that didn't look anything like her.

I went out of there crying.

Lytle: The families that feel like law enforcement

haven't taken it seriously,

I can tell those families from a personal standpoint

that's not accurate at all.

We have allocated resources to this case

that I've never seen the likes of,

I've never seen in my 20-year career.

We are working diligently to bring closure to those families.

Berlinger: So, what do you think happened to Charlotte?

I was told that there were places of prostitution

where they hold girls to sell them for sex.

I've thought about, is she caught somewhere?

Is somebody holding her?

Is she in a basement chained up?

Did they ship her overseas?

Everything's been through my mind.

Lytle: Any time you're involved in prostitution,

any time you're involved in that type of lifestyle,

the possibility exists that you could be trafficked.

You could be sold out of country.

You could be taken, um, as a sex slave.

When we look at that, it adds to the complexity

of the investigation.

There's multiple avenues

that this investigation

could take or multiple things that could've happened.

Boggs: Every once in a while, I'll get a blocked phone call,

but there's nobody there.

And you'll hear a click on the line.

And I think maybe that's her.

It may be nothing.

But you know, as a mother of a missing child,

you think everything.

I truly think that they just up and sold her.

I'm praying they didn't kill her like they did Tameka.

Berlinger: But just as Yvonne's fears

about the safety of her daughter intensify,

another young woman goes missing.

It is a missing-persons mystery that is

growing more intense by the day.

Man: It has been almost a week

since Tiffany Sayre disappeared,

leaving her grandmother heartbroken.

The 26-year-old mother of two

was last seen leaving her friend's home

in Chillicothe around 11:30 Monday night.

Boggs: "Charlotte, it's been a while

since I've sat down and wrote any.

I miss you so much, Char. Baby, I want you back.

Today is another bad day.

Tiffany Sayre went missing two days ago.

I think there is a murderer roaming among the streets,

and it scares me to think that you're one of his victims.

I just have a bad feeling about all of this.

Berlinger: In a disturbing twist,

almost one year to the day

after Charlotte and Tameka disappear,

26-year-old Tiffany Sayre

goes missing just a few blocks from her home.

The similarities between her story

and the other victims are striking.

Sam: And this is when Tiffany,

when she got her first big bike

that she can ride by herself.

-So she was raised by... -The grandmother.

Berlinger: By the grandmother.

And she was a happy kid or --

Oh, she was outgoing. She was always happy.

Riding bikes, playing in the mud,

just getting dirty on purpose.

She was an excellent mother.

She loved her babies dearly.

Seemed like she just went from a perfect girl

down the wrong path of drugs and prostitution.

She just got with the wrong crowd.

Okay.

Um...

First off, I want to say I'm sorry to my family,

um, for the mistakes I've made, um,

'cause God knows I've made a lot.

Um, I know that...

you guys have given me chance

after chance after chance to prove myself.

And I just throw it in your guys' face,

and you guys probably just wouldn't give up on me.

Ruth: An addict can't clear quit to stop.

It'll kill her.

And when she's not on it,

oh, my God, you couldn't ask for a better person.

Nice.

She'd do anything in the world for anybody.

Sanford: Tiffany's heroin addiction was real bad.

She was on pain pills first,

and then that drove her into using heroin.

Me and Tiffany were on Second Street

every day all day from the time we got up.

And sometimes we didn't even go to bed

and we'd be out there.

We'd make a couple hundred dollars,

go get high, go back out.

She was doing a half a gram probably three,

four times a day.

She would do anything to get it.

Sex, prostitution, get some money,

and do it all over again.

Berlinger: What kind of life is that?

It's not a life to live.

It -- it sucks.

That night, we were walking Second Street.

And we wasn't making no money.

We'd been out there for like two hours.

We came back here.

Tiffany said she had met these three guys.

They were staying at the Chillicothe Inn.

She wanted to go back to the hotel,

and I told her them guys were kind of aggressive.

They were, you know,

just taking it instead of me giving it.

And I didn't want her to go back.

She called her grandma.

She told her that she would be home

when she was doing what she was doing.

She left here about 12:30.

She told me she loved me and that she'd see me tomorrow.

I've been sober for four days now. Whoo-hoo!

That ain't shit. It ain't nothing.

But at least I'm starting. At least I'm trying.

Tiffany Sayre is a young lady that got hooked up in addiction,

and her primary drug of choice was heroin.

So she began to support that heroin habit by prostituting.

On May 11th, Tiffany Sayre and Jessie Sanford

had visited three men at the Chillicothe Inn.

They had left the Chillicothe Inn,

but Tiffany had made remarks that she was going back.

Was Tiffany afraid of anything or afraid of anyone?

She was not afraid of nobody.

Now, the night that she had left my house,

I don't know if it was she had an instinct or something.

She said, "I wish somebody could walk me home."

And I told her I would walk her home.

And she said, "But there'd be nobody to walk you back home."

So I don't know if she felt something

or if somebody was out to get her.

This lady comes up to us -- never seen her in our life.

We had her two daughters with us.

-Tiffany's daughters. -Tiffany's daughters, yes.

She walks over to us and says, "Those are Tiffany's daughters."

We're like, "Yes."

"Well, I need to tell you something."

The night that she was in the hotel,

the night she went missing,

that's when this lady --

she was in there with her husband.

They were staying there for three nights.

She said they can hear a girl screaming

at the top of her lungs.

Screaming with anger or screaming for her life?

For her life.

Sam: They called the Ross County cops three different times.

And all three cops --

all three of them come at different times --

said they could not go in the hotel.

I don't know if it was her that night.

I don't know if it was another girl,

but it could have been her.

There's always those individuals that believe

that this could have happened

or that could have happened. And you know what?

Those individuals may not be wrong,

but all we have to go on is the evidence that we're given.

The Johns in the Tiffany Sayre case,

we were able to identify them.

They confirmed that they knew Tiffany Sayre.

They even confirmed their relationship

as far as being Johns with her.

But we were able to exclude them

as possible suspects relatively quickly.

Berlinger: Without any new information from law enforcement,

the families of the missing fear

that the chance of finding their loved ones

alive diminishes with each passing day.

Then they receive some shocking news.

Woman: I have an emergency.

I found a woman's body in the crick.

She's wrapped up in a blanket,

and you can see her breasts,

her stomach, duct tape.

Man: Okay, ma'am, I'm gonna go ahead and send my deputies that way.

Oh, God, please hurry.

Yes, ma'am.

Woman: I have an emergency.

I found a woman's body in the crick.

Berlinger: On June 20, 2015, another body is found near Paint Creek.

Boggs: Said they had found a body.

I hope and pray it's not Charlotte.

Sam: I begged and begged, tried to get answers.

We have every right to see that body,

see if we can identify her.

Berlinger: This discovery sends shock waves through the community.

This could bring closure to one family,

but it's not the kind anybody wants.

Man: Investigators identify the body as 26-year-old Tiffany Sayre,

one of three women missing from Chillicothe.

Man #2: Tiffany Sayre's body was found just a couple of miles away

from where Lynch was found.

Man: Search teams and cadaver dogs scour the area for evidence

and additional bodies.

[ Crying ]

Lytle: The Tiffany Sayre case was originally ruled a homicide.

It appears that the body

was actually dumped into that culvert.

Very isolated area, very desolate area.

Not a lot of houses, not a lot of people around.

She was partially unclothed.

She was wrapped in some type of blanket.

There was no trauma found to Tiffany Sayre's body,

and the decomposition of the body led us to believe

that someone had had her body

in a location for a period of time

and then ended up dumping the body after a period of time,

which would lend itself more to a homicide type investigation.

Throne: The fact that Tiffany's body

ends up being found within a few miles

of where Tameka Lynch's body was found,

it's a big, big deal.

You know, it's sort of like ripping the scab

off the wound every time.

[ Crying ]

Come on. You want to go see Mommy?

Yeah?

Right here, see her?

See Mommy? -Mm-hmm.

You see the angels?

You're okay.

Ruth: Everybody's scared.

They're scared. So am I.

But I'll be damned if I'm gonna back down.

I want to know what happened to my granddaughter.

I want to know.

Sam: Honestly, I haven't been back since we laid her to rest

because down deep in my heart,

I don't believe it was her. -What do you mean?

You don't believe it's her in the grave.

I don't believe it's her in the grave.

The day I went to identify the body,

after I saw her, I walked out,

told the funeral director,

"That's not my niece." -Why did you say that?

I didn't look like her.

Her face features didn't look like her.

Her tooth was missing.

They said the only way we identified her

was by fingerprints.

But we don't understand how you could get fingerprints

with a severely decomposed body the way it was.

-The body that you saw... -Mm-hmm.

...was so decomposed

that you think fingerprints would be...

Yeah. There's a lot of loose ends to this story.

I'm concerned it's not the right person we laid to rest.

It could be someone else's loved one.

Yeah. And what does that tell you

about what the police are doing or not doing?

I mean, when you call them, they're always out the office,

saying that they're investigating.

They're doing this. They're doing that.

Okay, so if you are investigating,

where's the information for the families?

Honestly, I believe they just want

to brush it off as overdose, druggies -- let them go.

Sweep them under the carpet.

But they are someone's loved ones.

Chillicothe knows that they've got a major problem.

I'm praying that no other girls come up missing.

If Charlotte comes back, I want her to see

that we never gave up on her.

Even after they found Tameka, it was like,

"That's just another [bleep] dead."

You know, prostitute, whatever.

But that's my daughter.

And this is murder.

Berlinger: These disappearances and deaths

have taken a toll on the community.

Kids play inside, and families are rattled.

It's a charming small town on the surface,

but underneath, residents are living in fear.

Throne: You know, I think the biggest thing that this community needs

and the law enforcement folks need

is they need somebody to come forward that knows more.

But you know, I mean, people are afraid.

That keeps people from talking

because they don't want to be next.

The captain of the police department

is in her list of clients and drug dealers.

Woman: Behind closed doors, I was being trafficked

to all of these men who were the very ones

who were supposed to protect me.

Woman: You don't do as your told, and you could be eliminated.

They don't give two shits about these girls.

Lytle: 1 in every 1,000 citizens in the city of Chillicothe

have died from an overdose this year.

All I'm gonna do is pat you down,

make sure you have no weapons on you, all right?

We are out here working.

If you do deal drugs in our community,

we're gonna come get you.

Man: He said, "I'll be good to you.

Only thing I don't deal with is snitches."

And that's when he laid the gun by my head.

Woman: She was a paid informant.

She never made it to testify because she became missing.

We're coming up with these conclusions,

and the police haven't.

Is it dangerous to go to the police now?

Grand jury witness subpoena.

It looks like an attempt to literally shut

the production down.

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