‘I feel very close to Megan’: the 39-year fight to ease a family’s heartbreak

“So when [Paul Vincent Phillips died], it just gave us an opportunity, a point in time, to really push for people in the community to come forward. And the hope was that if people knew of Paul’s involvement, and were maybe frightened and not prepared to speak to police when he was alive, or family maybe weren’t willing to speak to police about what had happened, that they would come forward.”