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This week\u2019s episode is the third in a row wherein Melissa looks at a case revolving around a state of emergency \u2013 the first two are still technically unsolved \u2013 this one is solved but every bit as fascinating.\xa0\xa0Dana Marie Surette Pastori, who was known as "Polly" to her friends and to her customers at the Bourbon Street restaurant in New Orleans where she last worked in 2002, had lived a turbulent life.\xa0 \xa0Divorced from her first husband and estranged from her two daughters by the courts after she had taken them to Puerto Rico to spare them from poor treatment at the hands of the girls\u2019 new stepmother, Dana was also not particularly connected to her own parents.\xa0 \xa0Dana had recently taken up with a delivery driver at the restaurant, one John Henry Morgan \u2013 and the two were living together in New Orleans in 2002 \u2013 the last time anyone was sure they\u2019d seen her.\xa0\xa0Because she was heard from so rarely by her parents, it hadn\u2019t seemed strange to Dana\u2019s father \u2013 a police officer in nearby South Carolina \u2013 that his daughter hadn\u2019t been in contact with him at all for three years when \u2013 in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Big Easy with a vengeance.\xa0 At that point, Dana\u2019s dad figured he\u2019d better check in with his daughter to make sure she and John Morgan \u2013 whom he presumed Dana still lived with \u2013 were okay.\xa0\xa0What turned up was a mystery.\xa0 Dad found Morgan \u2013 but Morgan said that when he and Dana had received their Katrina relief checks from FEMA, Dana had taken off for Europe.\xa0 And at first, this seemed entirely plausible.\xa0\xa0Dana, you see, was constantly on the move \u2013 restless and always itching to live somewhere new.\xa0 She routinely told friends that she longed to move to Europe to become a writer.\xa0 So her dad, at first, figured that Morgan\u2019s story made sense.\xa0 But after a while, his law enforcement instincts compelled him to check a little further.\xa0 When he learned that Dana hadn\u2019t filled a prescription for her medical condition since 2002 \u2013 and that she hadn\u2019t worked at the restaurant since that time either, suspicions grew.\xa0 But there was nothing he could point to that could garner an arrest of anyone.\xa0\xa0That\u2019s when John Morgan\u2019s former landlord got involved.\xa0 And a cheap, old fiberboard trunk that Morgan had been moving with him for years was opened.\xa0\xa0And the horrific truth of what happened to Dana \u201cPolly\u201d Pastori was finally revealed.\xa0\xa0Listen in as Melissa digs in to the details of a tragic story of a scattered life turned into a life ended far too soon by one of the most callous (and callously stupid) murderers to ever slime his way through the streets of New Orleans \u2013 and the pain and loss experienced by her youngest daughter, who never had a chance to really know her mom \u2013 left only with a raft of journals Dana had written during her short life that can never be enough to fill the void of a lost childhood.