February 27, 2023 | By: Malorie Aldrich This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and the University of North Florida, Applied Journalism class. Edwinia Freeman’s happiest memories of her aunt, Verdell Grice Albert, was after Edwinia and her family moved back from the Virgin Islands in 1992. She was able to spend a lot of time with her beloved Aunt, Verdell. She took us shopping at the Goodwill in Tallahassee and gave us each a dollar to spend,” Freeman remembered. “Aunt Verdell did that so she could teach us the importance of a dollar, you could get a lot more with a dollar then, than you can now.” “My mom was a hardworking person,” her son, Michael Albert, remembered. “It wouldn’t matter what type of job it was: It could be a secretary in an office or flipping burgers at a Burger King.” A year after that happy memory, Albert went missing, disappearing from a grocery store parking lot in Tallahassee. Three months... Read More