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There are some cases that a law enforcement officer can't forget. This is one of them. Seven-year-old Samantha Zaldivar is reported missing in February 1997. Despite the best efforts of the community and law enforcement to find her, it seems the first grader has disappeared without a trace until the forensic evidence leads a multi-agency task force to an ugly possibility. Months later, an unlikely turn of events reveals the young girl's fate, which rocks the rural county in Western New York. Dedicated and meticulous police work brings a murderer to justice, but not without a cost to those involved. Stephen C. Tarbell, a retired Wyoming County Sheriff's investigator shares his personal account of the investigation into the disappearance and murder of Samantha Zaldivar.

The gripping story of a young woman's murder in Rochester, NY, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister.

These are the memories, realities and hopes of 25 young people from 15 different countries and Puerto Rico.The stories of students from Brighton's Twelve Corners Middle School and Brighton High School are presented.