Barbara is the widow of former Kill Devil Hills Police detective Jim Mulford. Barbara still remembers her late husband’s haunting defeat of never solving the case before his death. She got an inside look at things that always bothered Jim about the case.

Jim was the former lead Kill Devil Hills Police detective on the Denise Johnson homicide case. He passed away in 2015. Jim worked the case diligently from the moment it happened in 1997 until he later retired from the department.

John is a current captain with the Kill Devil Hills police department who spearheaded an effort in 2012 to revive leads on the cold case. He is familiar with Denise’s cold case and says the department still considers it an active homicide investigation.