A Better Search for Barbara (12): Love Doesn’t Die – Investigating the Barbara Cotton Cold Case

Barbara Louise Cotton’s 1981 disappearance in Williston, North Dakota, remains an unsolved murder and one of the state’s most haunting cold cases. Episode 12, Love Doesn’t Die, revisits the night Barbara vanished through new witness testimony, memories of local landmarks like the Plainsman and Cakes and Cones, and a possible new lead. This true crime story blends missing persons reports with investigative journalism, continuing the push for answers in a decades-old unsolved mystery.

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