Like many of us, Joyce Hall has a certain fascination with television shows about cold cases. But her reasons are more intense and intimate than most could fathom.
Her interest is a complicated combination of ceaseless grief with unyielding thirst for just some token of resolution over the unsolved murder 20 years ago of her beloved son Tim — weeks after the Northeast High product had been waived by the Oakland Raiders and as he was auditioning for other teams, including the Chiefs.
So every once in a while, she is compelled to touch base to see if there might be any progress in the case, as she did again in recent weeks when she called Sgt.