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My ex-husband murdered the girl on the milk carton - here's how I jailed him


When Jonelle Matthews disappeared, Angela Hicks feared her abusive husband Steve Pankey was the killer. Eventually she escaped his clutches and jailed him

Decades later, Angela joined forces with Detective Robert Cash – who had been at school with Jonelle’s older sister Jennifer. On the car ride home, Pankey was repeatedly listening to radio reports of Jonelle’s disappearance and shouted at Angela to keep flicking through the stations to find more broadcasts. Steve Pankey told his ex-wife Angela Hicks he would kill their sons if she left him (Image: © NBCUniversal All Rights Reserved)Meanwhile, Jonelle’s bereft dad, Jim Matthews, was the main suspect and police subjected him to a polygraph test.

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