Most people know the broad outline. Young woman. Washington D.C. intern. Affair with a Congressman. Disappeared in May 2001. Body found a year later in Rock Creek Park. A man convicted. The conviction overturned. The case cold. What most people do not know is what her parents said this week. On the 25th anniversary of her disappearance. On NewsNation. About UAPs. About the House Intelligence Committee. About whether their daughter was killed because of what she had learned.

When a researcher who knows something dangerous turns up dead, the official explanation often arrives quickly and sounds like medicine. An acute manic episode. A sudden mental health crisis. A breakdown with no prior warning. It closes the file. It produces no suspect, no motive, no crime scene, and no further inquiry.