The morning began with company and ended with a creek. That’s the narrow corridor where the truth about Barbara Crenshaw vanished.

She was 39. In the early hours of March 19, 1996, someone saw her with a man no one seems to know. By the end of that day, deputies found her in the creek. The death was ruled a homicide. The investigation stretched on. The years did, too.

No arrests. No closure. Just a case file that refuses to shut.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help again, not as a formality but as a last, stubborn bet on memory. Investigators believe someone in the community knows something— who that unknown man was, what happened between those early morning hours and the discovery in South Bibb County, why Barbara Crenshaw became a victim.

Nearly three decades is a h

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