Details: Carla Jean Downing had always felt different from her family members, especially because she had different hair and eye color than everyone else in her family. These feelings were forgotten after her mother, Mildred Libby, passed away in June of 1965, when Carla was sixteen. She and her brother were sent to live with their grandparents in Alexandria, Virginia. A few weeks after her mother's funeral, a woman named Mary visited her grandparents' home. Carla's grandmother said that Mary was a friend of her mother's. After Carla graduated from high school, she married and had a son. Despite this, she still felt out of place with her family. In 1990, Carla's father died and she traveled to Arlington, Virginia, for his funeral. A relative gave Carla a briefcase that contained several im