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For 33 years, the murder of Jamey Walker has haunted her family and one journalist who covered it.“I feel like I’m letting my daughter down if I don’t find out what happened,” Eleanor Walker told me back in 2004, her voice cracking, sobs working up into her throat. “I need a way to tie these loose ends together.” By then it had been 23 years since her daughter, Jamey Walker, an 18-year-old beauty queen and honor student, had been kidnapped from her home and murdered. Eleanor had spent those decades working tirelessly to bring the killer and kidnappers to justice.That interview with the still-grieving mom was one of the toughest sessions I’ve ever had as a journalist. Eleanor, frail and ill, showed me Jamey’s scrapbooks, page after page of honors, awards, silly photos and frilly mementos exactly what you would expect from a high-school student in the pre-Facebook era. “She was the first black prom queen and the first black homecoming queen. Danny Tarkanian was her