The ground was thick with a blanket of white snow as Jonelle Matthews arrived home.
It was December 20, 1984, and the strong-willed and lively 12-year-old had just sung ‘Jingle Bells’ with her school choir at a bank near her home in Colorado.
Excited for Christmas, she’d embroidered cross-stitch gifts to hand out to her school friends.
Russell Ross, the dad of Jonelle’s friend Deanna, had dropped the schoolgirl outside her house just after 8pm. No-one was home, as her mum, Gloria, was away visiting
