BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio — For 44 years, Bedford Heights teacher Alison Duiker refused to let the memory of her missing mother fade.

Last week, Duiker’s persistence helped solve one of Pennsylvania’s oldest cold cases after her father, 76-year-old Clinton Rogers, confessed to killing his wife, Lonene Rogers, who vanished in 1981.

It was the news she'd waited her entire life to hear.

“He said, ‘We interviewed him yesterday and we got it," Duiker said as she detailed her call with law enforcement. "He confessed.’”

Alison was just six years old when her mother disappeared from their Pennsylvania home. For decades, her father claimed Lonene had “run off with another man.”

Investigators now say he finally admitted to the crime that tore his family apart.

“He is finally being held accountab

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