‘God hasn’t taken the fight out of me yet’: Family’s push in cold-case murder gives them new hope to find the truth

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…

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