GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — For the first time, we are hearing from the daughter of a woman killed 13 years ago.
Last week, Channel 2 Action News uncovered a big break in the death of Leslie Adams. Channel 2's Mark Winne learned an arrest had been made in the cold case.
Adams disappeared in 2005. Her remains were discovered in a swamp two years later.
Police have charged Adams' ex-boyfriend, Billy Cook, with her murder.
Adams' daughter, Cierra Burk, was 16-years-old when her mother disappeared.
"I was this little 16-year-old who was broken into pieces. We were besties," she told Winne.
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Burk said a cousin called last week to tell her Cook had been charged with her mother's murder.
"I got butterflies in my stomach. I had to stop what I was doing for a second," she told Winne.
Cook's defense lawyer, Keith Adams, told Winne his client is innocent.
"There’s nothing that implicates my client in in this murder investigation that’s been going on at this point for 13 years," Adams said.
Private investigator TJ Ward said he started working the case for Adams' family 13 years ago.
"Cierra was very young when I got involved in this case," he said.
Burke, a flight attendant and mom herself now, said she's like her mother in other ways too, both strong women.
"I've had, had a lot of moments in my life where I wanted to really, like, break. But I didn’t but it was always, like, really hard," Adams said.
District attorney Danny Porter said Cook remains in jail held without bond.