She was home alone, making the dress she planned to wear

on her Friday night date.

But she had an uninvited visitor.

It took 24 years before forensic science could identify the individual

who was there that fateful night.

It was 1962.

President John F. Kennedy was leading the country at the height of the Cold War.

The world anxiously watched as the United States confronted the Soviet Union

over suspected missile sites in Cuba.

More ships of any kind bound for Cuba, where they found the contained cargo

of offensive weapons featuring back.

Racial tensions in the United States weren't as easily deflected.

Decegregation of southern schools pitted blacks against whites.

Leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., articulated a message of hope and reason.

This nation will rise up.

Hundreds of miles away, in the small town of Hanford, California,

racial tension and the arms race were less important than tending to business and making ends meet.

It was a small community, everybody knew everybody else.

It was on first name basis.

Even all the races were all friendly.

The Miller family provided an important service to the community.

They managed the water that was supplied to area farms.

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