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Finding Tammy Jo Episode 5: Forever Young

The story of a girl's mysterious murder in 1979 continues in the fifth episode of this series.

While Carl Koppleman worked to link missing person reports to unidentified bodies from his home in California, Laurel Nowell, in Arizona, was working to make some connections of her own.

Tammy Jo Alexander's high school picture, circa 1978.
A photo of Tammy Jo Alexander taken in high school.

In 2013, she took to the internet to look up an old high school friend, Tammy Jo Alexander, but what she found raised more questions than it did answers. Her search put her in contact with two other people very close to Tammy: her sister and an old boyfriend.

Finding Tammy Jo is a podcast hosted by WXXI's Veronica Volk and the Democrat and Chronicle's Gary Craig.

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Veronica Volk is a senior editor and producer for WXXI News.