CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: True crime’s unfinished stories — T.C. Edwards, Dana Stidham and the lives behind the cases

Theresa Ann Downing in her 1986 Beckville (Texas) High School senior portrait (bottom right) (The Bobcat Yearbook/Archival File)

"We are lonesome animals," John Steinbeck wrote. "We spend all life trying to be less lonesome."