#cold case identification

Late on an August afternoon in 2018, Terri Ackerman left her daughter’s home in Brighton, Colorado, after a normal visit. She said her goodbyes, promised to see her grandchildren soon, and drove the half hour back to her house on Poplar Street in Lochbuie. The drive was ordinary—flat roads, a wide horizon, the hum of tires over warm asphalt. When she called her daughter, Ambyr, around 4:30 p.m.…