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The messages, placed between June 24 and June 30, provide comfort to the loved ones of those either lost or being celebrated.

Of makeup on every morning before she went out. >> up on the john deere, she's jacked out? >> she had rosy cheeks, she was beautiful inside and out. >> in time, daughter gianna married and moved away to a job in des moines. son billy went into the heating and air conditioning business, but jason, the youngest child, took to the land. >> i really enjoyed working with him, i was teaching him, he is a good farmer. >> jason would carry on the farming tradition for another generation. and best of all, he and his wife shelley live close by. bill and surely soon had grandchildren's to do it on. happy...

It, to remember? >> we went to the homecoming dance, she was quiet, produced thing you'd ever seen. >> as bill tells it, they were kids in love, deeply, maybe carelessly. during her sophomore year, surely got pregnant. >> we were married, at a very young age. i was 18, i had just turned 18 and she was 16. >> sun, daughter gianna was born, and then came billy, eight years later jason completed the family. with three kids to raise, bill and surely went into farming on a small plot of starter land they gruesome corn and soybeans, then plowed the profits into a more prime iowa acreage. surely love...

And shirley went into farming. on a small plot of starter land, they grew some corn and soybeans, then plowed the profits into more prime iowa acreage. shirley loved farming. >> she did everything. >> she just took to it, huh? >> she was a natural. >> she loved, loved being in the tractors. >> reporter: long-time friend and neighbor, irene schulz, said shirley brought a little pizzazz to the fields when she climbed into her custom-made tractor. >> she always put a little bit of makeup on every morning before she went out. >> you mean up on the john deere? she's -- she's decked out -- >> in the...

But when your crime-scene techs cleared the house, they really didn't have much for you, did they? >> they did not. >> no forensics, no blood, no dna, nothing really useful. nobody walked in front of a security camera? >> right. >> reporter: so to understand shirley carter's death, they'd have to learn more about her life. the backstory to a murder. turned out, she was a local girl. her dad, a grocer. her mother, an assistant at a law office. in high school, she met bill. where'd you go on your first date, do you remember? >> took her to the homecoming dance. she was quiet. prettiest thing you...