20 years after a woman's body was found, her sister remains hopeful for answers

Carrie Leonard's signature smile still lives on in family photos. Snapshots of a young woman celebrating holidays, birthday parties, and family vacations.

But the last pictures Rosetta Yeager has of her younger sister show Carrie at 21 years old. She says she disappeared from the family house in 1997.

For the next two years, the family waited for any kind of news. Rosetta even packed up her life and moved into the family home in Hernando County to be with her mom.

In that time period, she says she still had hope that her sister would turn up alive, but in 1999 a detective showed up to their house to give them the news that her body had been found.

The Hernando County Sheriff's Office lists Carrie's case under "unsolved homicides" and Rosetta says detectives believe someone killed her sister. She wants to know who.

"I will never forget what they did, and how they've made everybody feel, and made me feel, and for taking my sister's life," Rosetta said. "I mean, it's not fair. What did she do? I want to know what she do for you to take her life? What did she do that was so horrible?"

Decades later, Rosetta doesn't know if she'll ever get resolution, but she knows the Hernando County Sheriff's Office detectives are hard at work. She says some of them are "like family."

She has renewed hope every time she hears about a cold case solved by new DNA technology.

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