LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Rose Edwards has continued to seek answers in who murdered her father Forrest, nearly two decades later.
Rose is the daughter of Forrest Edwards, and the only thing she's asking for this Christmas is to receive some clarity.
"I'm just asking please for this Christmas, next Christmas, but this Christmas if possible -- just give us what we need. I just want to know what happened to my father," Rose said.
Holidays aren't the same for Rose and her family. For nearly two decades there has been a hole in her heart from mourning the loss of her father Forrest.
"People don't understand that even though it's been 19 years, it feels like it's 19 seconds because the pain doesn't go away," she said.
Rose said her father was killed in his home on Oct. 3, 2004 in Star City. Along with grief, the killing has left Rose with unanswered questions on who and why anyone would want to kill her father.
"My father was a good man and he didn't deserve any of this and he would have given you the shirt off his back," she said.
Since the case of Forrest Edwards is over three years, it has turned into a cold case where investigators are working day and night to solve it.
"I'll get a text on Christmas, no doubt from Rose whose father, you know, was murdered in Star City in 2004. She has missed countless Christmas's, he wasn't at her wedding, he didn't see her kids grow up," said Major Stacie Rhoads of the Criminal Investigation Division with Arkansas State Police. "She's obviously affected by that, and her gentle reminders to me won't let me forget that his case is still unsolved."
But despite the circumstances, Rose just wants her father to be remembered how he was and will always be.
"Just being goofy and just being silly and just laughing, his laugh was infectious and I miss that," Rose said.
And as the years pass, the push for answers never goes away.
"As long as I have breath in me, I'm gonna stay here and fight until somebody tells me tell me what happened. I forgave them already [but] I want justice. I forgave you," Rose said.