On the night of April 23, 1997, 21-year-old Angela Holmes was managing a Baskin-Robbins in Clarksville, Tennessee, when a closing shift turned deadly. Holmes, a white female, was working with 16-year-old co-worker Michelle Mace. After the store closed both women were abducted during a robbery; Michelle’s mother arriving to pick her up found the store empty, the cash drawer and safe open, money missing, and the store’s surveillance tape removed.

The following morning both women were found dead at nearby Dunbar Cave State Park, each suffering fatal slash wounds to the throat. The investigation pointed to 41-year-old Paul Dennis Reid Jr., already linked to a series of violent crimes against fast-food restaurants across Tennessee in early 1997. Reid was arrested and charged with multiple counts including premeditated murder, felony murder, especially aggravated kidnapping, and especially aggravated robbery in connection with the deaths of Holmes and Mace.

At trial the jury convicted Reid of the murders; the court sentenced him to death and the Tennessee Supreme Court later upheld the conviction and sentence. Did anyone who knew Angela or her routines in Clarksville back in 1997 see anything that could still help explain what happened that night?