In September 1979, twelve-year-old Lesia Michell Jackson spent the day swimming near her home in Montgomery County, Texas. She was last seen walking alone through the Lake Wildwood subdivision toward her family's house.

She never made it home.

Six days later, an oilfield worker discovered Lesia's remains in woods along a pipeline roughly five miles away.

Her murder would remain unsolved for forty-three years.

Then investigators returned to evidence that had been preserved since 1979. Using modern DNA collection technology, they recovered a profile—and finally gave Montgomery County's oldest cold case a name.

In the premiere of Behind the Pine Curtain, we examine the disappearance and murder of Lesia Jackson, the investigation that refused to completely disappear, and the forensic breakthrough that finally identified her killer.

Behind the Pine Curtain — True Crime from Montgomery County, Texas.

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Behind the growing communities and familiar roads lies another Montgomery County—a place of forgotten cases, unanswered questions, and stories hidden for decades among the East Texas pines.

Each episode takes a detailed look at a real local case, using law-enforcement records, court documents, archived reporting, and other documented sources to separate fact from rumor while keeping the victims and their stories at the center.

Behind the Pine Curtain True Crime from Montgomery County, Texas.

Behind the pines are stories waiting to be told.

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