Detectives with the La Porte County Sheriff's office have re-opened a 36-year-old cold case and they're asking for help from the public.
It was March of 1989 when a body was found in a water-filled ditch along State Road 8, in La Porte County, about a mile west of State Road 39.
Two days later, as police were investigating the discovery, they found another body in the same area.
They would be identified as teenaged girls reported missing in Florida.
Runaways.
16-year-old Tamara Gifford and 17-year-old Christina Hillis.
Both were believed to have been murdered three months earlier.
In December of 1988. They had been seen hitchhiking.
Initially, the cause of death was strangulation.
Now, Capt. Derek Allen, with the Sheriff's office says detectives are taking another look.
"When they began to review the case file recently they found some information that they were intrigued by, specifically the cause and manner of deaths," he said.
The girls were known to have been in neighboring Stark County, where the younger of the two had relatives.
Earlier this week, detectives went to the location where the bodies were found, along with a retired major who was one of the first deputies at the scene in 1989.
He said, aside from reexamining the cause and manner of death, they're hoping for new leads.
"Even if an individual that out there thinks its very small or minute, those are the types of pieces of information that can simply break a case like this."
Allen said the girls' pictures are posted in some detectives' offices.
"They never are forgotten about, they're often looked at or talked about and it's something that is always kind of hanging with us and we carry it near and dear to our hearts to bring justice hopefully one day for the victims."