Ten years after her daughter disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and was later found dead, Laurie Jernigan says she finally feels a new sense of hope.
Ebby Jane Steppach was 18 years old when she vanished in Arkansas on October 25, 2015, after telling her stepfather she wanted to report a sexual assault. Her body was found nearly three years later and her death ruled a homicide.
But what followed was a decade defined by unanswered questions, investigative missteps, and a mother’s relentless determination to ensure her daughter’s story was neither forgotten nor misunderstood…