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Hi Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. >> And I'm Brit. And today's story is one
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that found me about 8 months ago. I was coming through our case suggestions and one of them just jumped out. [music] It
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was from a woman down in Texas named Jolita Wilkinson who wanted help rewriting the false narrative around her
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sister's death. A death that was ruled such a shameful accident in the 1980s in small town
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Texas that her family didn't really speak of it. So she was never able to voice her concerns [music] about a crime
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scene that she had to clean up. One that she believes pointed to murder. Now part of her submission, I actually
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want to read it to you. >> [music] >> It said, "My parents did not want to stir the pot because her past may
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embarrass the family and her 3-year-old son. So I told them after they passed, I
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would dig into the truth. They have now passed and I feel it's time to really investigate her death
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being as there are so many coincidences, discrepancies, and I hate that my nephew
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has lived the past 40 years believing his mom accidentally killed herself masturbating." Now this woman came
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[music] to us believing that her sister might have actually been murdered by a known serial killer. But she didn't know
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where to go from there. So a few months ago I put one of our reporters on this case and through our own investigation
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we have come to agree with Jolita. Her sister was murdered. But maybe not by the roaming serial killer she [music]
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thought. Because our investigation led us to the case of two other women who died in the
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same small town. And all these women linked back to one [music] local man. So let me start with the story of Rowena
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Wilkinson Zapolac.