TONIGHT A MAJOR BREAK IN A COLD CASE OUT OF ALABAMA IN 1991 JEROME MORRIS DISAPPEARED FAST FORWARD SIX YEARS WHEN A BODY WAS FOUND IN HEFLIN AT THE TIME INVESTIGATORS. DIDN’T KNOW WHO WAS FOR DECADES HEFLIN POLICE WERE NOT ABLE TO PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER NOW IN 2022. THANKS TO SOME OF THE LATEST FORENSIC TECHNOLOGY POLICE HAVE MADE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. IT’S 17 YEARLD O JEROME BORIS WVTM 13 SARAH KILLIAN RECENTLY. DOWN WITH HIS MOTHER AS HER SO N’S CASE NOW TURNS FMRO SEEING PERSON TO A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION. IT WAS TWO DAYS BEFEOR THANKSGIVING 1991. CANARY. KELLY SAYS SHE WAS IN HER KITCHEN AT HER HOME IN HEFLIN WHEN HER SON JEROME. CAME TO SAY GOODBYE. HE TOLD M HEEAID S MAMA. I’LL BE BACK AND AND FIX YOU SOMETHING TO EAT. SO HE LEFT OUT. I NEVER HEARD NOTHING. FROMIM H AND KELLY SAYS THAT WASN’T LIKE JEROME A 17 YEAR OLD WENT TO CLEBURNE COUNTY. SCHOOL, HE WAS A STAR ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD AND HE HAD BIG DREAMS AHEAD OF HIM. HE THE FOOTBALL HE WAS THE BEST THEY HAD WHEN HE GET THAT BALL, BUT IT’S GONNA BE A TOUCHDOWN EN TWHHE TALENTED TEEN HADN’T RETURNED HOME AFTER A FEW DAYS. KELLY SAYS SHE WENT TO PICOLE AND GOT TO WORK SEARCHINGOR F JEROME. WE PUT FLYERS OUT EVERYWHERE. WE COULD THINK WE NEREV CEOM UP WITH NOTHING THOSE DAYS OF SEARCHING TURNED IONT WEEKS WEEKS INTO MONTHS MONTHS INTO YEARS STILL. NO SIGN OF JEROME IN AUGUST 1997 A MAN CLEARING OUT SOME PROPERTY HERE ALONG COUNTY ROAD 533 AND HEFLIN MADE A GRUESOME DISCOVERY A BADLY DECOMPOSED BODY. IS ONLY AUTBO TWO MILES FROM MORRIS’S HOME, BUT AT THE TIME POLICE WERE NOT ABLE TO MAKE A CONNECTION THEY ATTEMPTED TO DO SOME DNA EXTRACTION AND 1998. -99 NOTHING WASN’T IT WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH QUALITY FOR DISTRACTION TO BE. WHERE YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE DNA DECADES PASSED THAT BODY REMAINED UNIDENTIFIED WHILE KELLY CONTINUED TO SEAHRC FOR HER SON. NOTHING CHANGED UNTIL LATE 2020. THAT’S WHEN THE HEFLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT REOPENED THE CASE AND CAPTNAI SCOTT BONNER TOOK OVER. WE WERE CAUTIOUS WITH IT. BECAUSE YOU DON’T WANT TO GET MIFALIES HOPES UP LAST FALL THE HEFLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT GOT CONNECTED TO THE FORENCSSI LAB AT LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY IN ONTARIO, CANADA. THEY STEN OFF THEEM RAINS FOUND IN THESE WOODS IN. 97 IT TKOO MONTHS OF TESTING BUT ON APRIL 22ND OF THIS YREA HEFLIN POLICE FINALLY GOT CONFIRMATION THE REMAINS WEER WITHOUT A DOUBT JEROMEOR MRIS. SO WHEN YOU CAN FINALLY GO SAY, YOU KNOW, YES, MA’AM. IS YOUR SON? IT WAST I WAS A BIG RELIEF FOR ME. I WANTED TO BURST OUT. NOT CRYING RIGHT MAN. AND SEEMED LIKE BURDEN HAD LIEDFT OF MY SHOULDERS NOW FOR THE HEFLIN POLEIC DEPARTMENT. THEY'R’ INVESTIGATION SHIFTS FROM MISSING PERSON TO HOMICIDE. THEY SAY THEY HAVE EVIDENCE. GOING JEROME WAS MURDERED. BONNER SAYS THEY DON’T HAVENY A SUSPECTS RIGHT N,OW BUT THEY DO HAVE TWO PERSONS OF INTEREST. I THINK YOU SOLVABLE THE FAMILY WON’T GIVE UP WE WON’T GIVE UP AND WHEN THIS SECA IS SOLVED AND JEROME FINALLY GETS JUSTICE. KELLY WANTS TO SEEIS H MURDERER FACE TO FACE. I WANT TO LOOK THEMN ITHE FACE. I WANT TO TELL THEM I FORGIVE THEM. BUT THE WRATH WILL BE THEIR HEAD I FORGIVE THEM. I HAVE TO IN ORDER FOR ME TO GO FORWARD MEOV FORWARD BUT NEVER FORGET IN HEFLIN SARAH KELLY AND WVTM 13 AND OF COURSE POLICE ARE WORKING HARD TO FDIN ANSWERS AND THEY ASK ANYONE WHO MIGHT KNOW ANYT