As humans, we make judgments about those around us based on appearance, even though it's not always a conscious process.

A person's job, body type, or even gender are just some of the things that can influence our impressions of them.

In this case, a couple, Rick Polia pastor, things that can influence our impressions of them.

In this case, a couple, Rick Polly, a pastor, and his wife, Patty Joe, gave those around them the impression that they were a happy, stable couple.

Maybe that was true.

Or maybe those judgments were misguided, because Patty Joe Polly was murdered.

And all the signs seemed to point to her husband.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

I'm Brooke, and here's the admired Bill Curtis with the classic case, the pastor's wife.

I've always picture of the person

missing or the victim because you always look back and the person is just not just a number

or not just something that fades away.

Keith Isam is an investigator in Pennsylvania County, Virginia.

He doesn't investigate a lot of homicides, but the ones he does get, he takes personally.

It's someone that actually lived and had a family and had thoughts and had breath,

and now possibly something has happened to them.

And so you keep reminding yourself that why you're going forward is for that person that you got that photo.

The picture Isam holds close belongs to Patty Joe Pulley.

On May 16, 1999, her pickup truck is found abandoned near Highway

62. Patty Joe herself is missing. My first intuition was, well, she met someone and left.

I mean, just without knowing anything, because the truck, the way it was parked, the truck was parked

there as if someone was going to come back and get it

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