March 3, 2025 | By: Jordyn Walden  This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and the University of North Florida’s Applied Journalism class. Elizabeth Williams was born in 1934 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and grew up quickly – her father died early on in a workplace incident, and her mother struggled. At a young age, the burden of caring for her siblings was placed on her. It was a rough life. “She hated holidays,” said her great-grandson, Kyle Hall. He suspects it was because her own mother had died on Christmas Eve. As a grandmother, though, she learned to find joy in life’s simple things. She spent most of her time cooking, sewing, and gardening. But that ended in 2006 when she died due to blunt force trauma to the head in her Warren County, Mississippi home. Police say she was murdered. But the crime has never been solved. Kyle and his great-grandmother shared a strong bond, more like mother and son. They spent... Read More