

"It could be next month, it could be next year but really the focus in our priority is getting the truth-getting the answers." "I have a measure of confidence that we've identified some of them and we're gonna be-we're gonna be coming," he said.

"We're convinced that there are a handful of people that fit those roles who are still alive."

"It's my belief that there were more than two people who were involved in the totality of the crime-the disposal of the evidence and the abduction of the little girl," Hagwood said. The hope is the new evidence will lead to new arrests. In a way, their work has only just begun. "This killed this community Keddie was gone-eddie was absolutely finished," Gamberg said. It's been hard to cover up the emotions stirred by the 35-year-old mystery.

The hammer, similar to one reported missing by Smartt, was dug up near the crime scene just last month. The hope is coming from an unlikely source-information from a family member of Boubede has led to a discovery investigators thought was long gone. "I actually put in my mind that I'll probably go to my grave-that it will never be solved-and then when all this is coming out-it brought up the hope again," she said. She was spending the night at a friend's house on the night of the murders and came home to find the bodies. Relief is something Sheila Sharp has been searching for since that dark day in April 1981. It became a top priority when Hagwood took over several years ago and he hired Gamberg to focus on the murders.Īfter countless hours of digging, the clues in the cold case started heating up, and new light is emerging on the decades-old crime. "Dana was at my house the day before the homicide," he said.īoth now share a common goal-solving the brutal quadruple murder that sat largely untouched for many years.
