Oxygen’s latest true crime special is exploring a murder case that took over three decades to solve.
In 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her Greeley, Colo. home, and not even a nationwide missing child milk carton campaign—one of the first in U.S. history—proved successful in helping find her.
“After 20 years, I just felt like there was nothing I could do,” Angela Hicks, who was married to Jonelle’s murderer at the time of her disappearance, admits in E! News’ exclusive sneak peek at The Girl on the Milk Carton. “I tried to do something and that didn’t work. It was a lot of waiting and a lot of years.”
Angela had previously suspected her ex-husband, true-crime enthusiast and former Idaho gubernatorial candidate Steve Pankely, was somehow involved in her disappearance. But Angela’s efforts to bring justice were unsuccessful—until 35 years later when Jonelle’s remains were discovered in 2019 just 20 miles from her home.
That’s when Angela got a call from Robert Cash, who reopened the tragic cold case.
