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Murderers are evil \\u2013 and yes they\\u2019re evil because they take the lives of innocents \\u2013 but also because of the lives and futures they affect for those left behind.\\xa0\\xa0Sometimes the murder itself is so disturbing or maddening that it\\u2019s easy to forget that the friends and colleagues \\u2013 and particularly family \\u2013\\xa0 who are left to pick up the pieces of a murdered or disappeared loved on are often victimized\\xa0 themselves.\\xa0 Broken marriages, depression \\u2013 even suicide \\u2013 can all rear their heads in the residue of a killer\\u2019s actions.\\xa0\\xa0Especially when you don\\u2019t know where the victim is \\u2013 and you can\\u2019t prove who it was who did the killing.\\xa0\\xa0But sometimes the loved ones of the victim overcome the temptation to give up and simply decide to find answers \\u2013 whether they\\u2019re helped by the police or not.\\xa0\\xa0Such is the story of the three living sisters of one Edward (\\u201cEddie\\u201d) Nichols of Gallatin County, Kentucky, who went hunting with a friend (or should we say \\u201cfriend\\u201d?) on December 3, 1974 at a place called Shady Nook Bottoms in neighboring Boone County \\u2013 and hasn\\u2019t been seen or heard from since.\\xa0\\xa0Since that time \\u2013 for 46 years now \\u2013 Eddie\\u2019s family has refused to give up the search to bring him home.\\xa0 And to their credit, the Boone County authorities, after initially dropping the ball, have not let go of the case either.\\xa0\\xa0On this episode, Melissa interviews returning guest Detective Coy Cox of the Boone County Sheriff\\u2019s Department, who currently leads the Nichols investigation, to go over the known facts of the case and to suss out some possible answers to this most perplexing disappearance \\u2013 and the persistence of three loving sisters who won\\u2019t let their brother\\u2019s memory fade for even a moment.\\xa0\\xa0