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On October 19, 1971, ten year-old Cheryll Spegall was last seen running to catch the bus to school near her home in Highland Heights, Kentucky.\\xa0 No one saw her after that.\\xa0\\xa0No one, that is, except her murderer.\\xa0 Whoever that person is (or was), he has never been caught.\\xa0 Not yet, that is.\\xa0\\xa0Cheryll\\u2019s lifeless body was found nearly two weeks later, buried under a pile of rocks in a remote area in neighboring Pendleton County, by a milk truck driver who just happened to pull over at that particular spot on the way to his last stop.\\xa0\\xa0While Cheryll\\u2019s family and friends have never stopped searching for Cheryll\\u2019s killer all these years later, it has really been over the past three years that the case has taken on a new life \\u2013 a spark that has ignited a fire of interest by law enforcement as well as a wide range of people who never knew the young girl \\u2013 many who weren\\u2019t even born yet when the murder occurred.\\xa0\\xa0The catalyst for this sudden and dramatic interest in a 49 year-old unsolved homicide?\\xa0\\xa0One person \\u2013 namely, Melissa\\u2019s guest on this episode.\\xa0 Her name is Beth
Rowland, one of the most dedicated and whip-smart amateur sleuths we\\u2019ve ever met.\\xa0\\xa0A music teacher by day, Beth\\u2019s interest was ignited years ago when, on a date with her then-boyfriend (now husband), she learned of a mysterious \\u201cman on the porch,\\u201d an older gentleman who liked to watch passersby from his front stoop that the locals all told themselves to stay away from because rumor had it that he had \\u201ckilled a girl\\u201d back in \\u201971.\\xa0\\xa0Fast forward to three years ago, when at a family dinner, Beth\\u2019s curiosity about the case compelled her to ask her mother-in-law, who lived near the Spegal family home at the time, what she knew about it.\\xa0 The answers only increased Beth\\u2019s interest, and soon she started a blog, \\u201cGone in the Fog,\\u201d which now has nearly fifty chapters, both in text and in audio, about her personal journey and her investigation into the murder \\u2013 and how in the process she has compiled as much or more investigative data as the police themselves.\\xa0\\xa0Take a listen to Melissa\\u2019s fascinating hour-plus interview with Beth Rowland and prepare to want to get involved yourself!\\xa0\\xa0If you have any information about the disappearance and murder of Cheryll Spegal, please call the Kentucky State Police Post 6 at (859) 428-1212.