This is Part 1 of a three-part series originally published by The Intercept. Read Part 2 and Part 3 on our site.
Only a few bones remained and there was no clear cause of death.
In the realm of murder cases gone cold, this was a challenging one—even for Kelly Siegler, a veteran prosecutor from Houston, Texas, with a nearly perfect conviction record and an evangelical fervor for solving cold cases using circumstantial evidence.