OK cold case is revived after woman turned to TikTok in search for answers ... trends now
An Oklahoma cold case has been reopened after a woman took to TikTok to ask for help in finding her missing parents, who vanished more than 25 years ago - their bodies were discovered in the woods.
Dallas Burr, 30, originally of Texas, was a toddler when her parents Brian, 23, and Rachel, 21, went missing, having been last seen in Pennsylvania grandfather's ex-wife. She was raised by her grandmother who died in 2014.
On April 9, 1995, Brian and Rachel's bodies were found with gunshot wounds in a wooded area in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, off US Highway 69. But the authorities were never able to establish who the mystery couple were.
At the time of her first video two years ago, Burr believed her parents were still alive, saying: 'I don't want anything from them, I just want to meet them.'
But she uncovered the truth after submitting her DNA to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation last year. On April 12, authorities were able to identify the remains.
Now, as a result of her drawing attention to their deaths online and matching her DNA, the cold case has been reopened.
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Dallas Burr, 30, originally of Texas, was a toddler when her parents Brian, 23, and Rachel, 21, went missing, having been last seen in Pennsylvania grandfather's ex-wife
By time Burr turned eight she was 'orphaned by the State of Texas as no one had seen or heard from my parents for over five years.' Shortly after the announcement, she and her grandmother would move to Ohio.
Burr said she had been in contact with her mother's family for most of her life and had started to converse with her paternal uncle when she was 17 after he found her Facebook.
'It opened a whole other world for me,' she said in a follow-up TikTok in 2021.
Neither side of the family had a clue what happened to Burr's family and most just assumed 'they were young when they had me and my brother and they were overwhelmed and they just couldn't do it anymore.'
Burr, who still believed her parents were alive, said she 'forgave' her parents and just wanted to 'know' them.
In a Part 5 update, she told viewers that her and her brother both have children now and have left most of their remaining family, but were hoping their parents would like to meet their
