My ex-husband murdered the girl on the milk carton - here's how I jailed him
ok.co.ukJonelle Matthews vanished just five days before Christmas 1984 in an American mystery that lasted nearly four decades.The schoolgirl disappeared on the evening of 20 December after being dropped off at her house by her school friend Deanna and Deanna’s dad Russell Ross.
Police in small town Greeley, Colorado, feared she had been abducted but were unable to find a lead. 130 days after she went missing, the case prompted prompted President Ronald Reagan to make Jonelle one of the first missing children to be featured on milk cartons in his campaign to find lost children and bring them home.
Jonelle’s mum, Gloria Matthews, feared it was too little, too late. “To be honest, I felt that was the least they could do,” she said.
For 35 years, police struggled to put the clues together but Angela Hicks, the wife of a local man named Steven Pankey, feared her abusive and controlling husband was really a killer.
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