On October 6, 1990, during a family weekend at an antique mall in Beaumont, Texas, Joe and Elaine Langley\'s life changed forever.
Seen through the eyes of a veteran sex crime detective who helped lead the search for Falyssa Van Winkle\'s killer, this is a chronicle of the investigation, arrest and subsequent trial of a man whose profile is all too familiar to police, and can be found much closer to home than any parent can bear to imagine..
Starting with hundreds of potential witnesses and suspects who were at the mall, a team of investigators from throughout Southeast Texas quickly narrowed their focus to a 44-year-old vendor and family acquaintenance named James Rexford Powell.
Five hours later her body was found under a remote rural bridge 80 miles away from where she had been raped and strangled.
Their 10-year-old daughter, Falyssa Van Winkle, disappeared while buying peanuts just a few yards away.
On October 6, 1990, during a family weekend at an antique mall in Beaumont, Texas, Joe and Elaine Langley\'s life changed forever
