Unconventional relationship holds answers to Florida woman's violent murder

This story originally aired on Oct. 19, 2024. It was updated on July 12, 2025.

In April 2018, in the sleepy Florida Gulf Coast town of Eastpoint, it appeared a killer had struck.

"I received a call that a body was located .. off of Highway 98," Lt. Ronnie Jones, from the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, told "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant.