CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A 30 year old cold case in Charleston is getting a fresh look from a detective in the investigation that has haunted the city for decades.

Next month will mark 31 years since Lynn Priestley's body was found along the banks of the Kanawha River five days after she was reported missing. The 34-year-old was the assistant director at the Charleston Urban Renewal Authority.

There have been no arrests, no answers and no justice for Priestley and her family, who have since gone to their graves never knowing who killed her and why.

"It was what it was. It was a very brutal, savage, sadistic killing," Jeanne McNulty Dreisbach said.

Dreisbach first met Priestley at Horace Mann Junior High School, where they were in the same homeroom. The two sparked an immediate friendship that lasted until Priestley's murder in March 1990.

Driesbach said she has made a vow to find out who killed her friend.

“We weren't going to go to our graves without pursuing this further," she said in an interview with Eyewitness News.“Those things happen, but they don't happen to people you know and love. It was so unreal."

Driesbach remembers Priestley for her "wicked" sense of humor.

Five days after she was reported missing, Lynn Priestley's body was found by a fisherman on March 21, 1990. Her body was discovered about 10 miles east of Charleston, along the Kanawha River bank between Chelyan and Chesapeake. She was lying face down, close to the water, and was completely nude. (WCHS)

"Sometimes maybe it would be inappropriate, but she was just a lot of fun, she liked to have fun. She didn't take herself too seriously. She would always tell me to lighten up," she said. "She was quite a flirt. She had lots and lots of boyfriends throughout the years. For that reason, frankly, a lot of girls were jealous of her. She was competition and this carried on even into our 30s but that was Lynn."

Priestley worked for several years at City Hall in Charleston and in the mayor's office, like her mother, Blanche, who had retired from there.

“I know that she envisioned herself probably being very much like her mother, staying at City Hall until she retired and having a family. Just living a nice life here in Charleston. She wanted to be happy like everybody else," Dreisbach recalled.

Lynn Priestley, far left, is seen here with friends including Jeanne Dreisbach. (Courtesy: Jeanne Dreisbach)

It was St. Patrick's Day weekend in Charleston on March 16, 1990. The boy's state basketball tournament was also in town bringing hundreds of spectators. Priestley was out drinking and having fun with friends and a man she had been seeing for several months.

“I wouldn't call him her boyfriend, the media portrayed him as her boyfriend during the investigation. He was actually more of an armpiece. I'm going to be honest, she was using him. He took her places, he bought her things, she wasn't into love with him by any means," Dreisbach said.

The group started out at Benningan's at the Charleston Town Center but eventually ended up at the nearby Tidewater Grill, where she had also worked at one point.

"She was talking with friends, she used to work with them, and I guess he was jealous that she was talking with them," said Charleston Police Lt. Tony Hazelett, who currently serves as the chief of detectives.

Bartenders at Tidewater witnessed an argument between the couple before Priestley stormed out sometime before midnight. She left her keys on the bar. Hazelett said police reports said the boyfriend followed her outside and down the street toward the Judicial Building.

"There was a loud disturbance outside around the Judicial Annex which brought the attention to a bailiff who came out and addressed the situation and then she was last seen headed east on Quarrier Street," Hazelett said. The bailiff confronted the couple but there was nothing there to deem an arrest, he noted.

"She was supposed to go to Spanky's bar on the Boulevard but friends there said she never showed up there," Hazelett said.

It was the last time Priestley was seen alive. Her parents, Blanche and Charlie Priestley, reported her missing the next day. Her parents also said the man Priestley was seeing had told them he couldn't get a hold of her either.

"She just disappeared, that's all there is to it. We have no idea and with so many people in town, somebody else could have grabbed her. We feel sure that she was attacked or kidnapped," Charles Priestley told a WCHS reporter during an interview at the Priestley's Kanawha City home on March 19.

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"She just wouldn't have gone off without letting us know and we know it wasn't a whim or anything because she had no clothes, no suitcase, no weekend bag or anything," her father said in the interview. "She just disappeared and it's not like her. We'd just like to have her back, that's all."

Dallas Staples, who served as the public information officer for the Charleston Police Department and went on to become the police chief in 1991, remembered Priestley from working at City Hall. He said the case was a shock to the entire city and remembered the around-the-clock hours that went in to trying to find her in the high-priority case.

“It must have been at least six to eight investigators working different parts of the case. Tracing her steps, interview witnesses and things like that," Staples recalled. "I think it was more of a shock to everybody because it didn't seem like, especially in the workplace, that she had any enemies."

Five days after she was reported missing, on March 21, Priestley's body was found by a fisherman. Her body was discovered about 10 miles east of Charleston, along the Kanawha River bank between Chelyan and Chesapeake. She was lying face down, close to the water, and was completely nude.

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Priestley's clothes and purse were never found. An autopsy revealed she had been strangled. Her body was thrown down a steep, rocky embankment.

"It was not a ligature strangling and it appears to have been done by human hands," Sgt. Jerry Riffe told reporters at the time.

Riffe said the medical examiner's report indicated Priestley was killed not long after her disappearance and that she was dead when her body was placed along the riverbank.

Staples remembered the horror that blanketed the city.

"In those types of cases, it's about dominance and degradation of the victim," Staples said.

He also remembered the media frenzy and speculation as police announced they did have a suspect and persons of interest in the case. Hazelett said Priestley's boyfriend, who was the last to see her alive, was a person of interest but police have never publicly named him or officially announced he was a suspect.

"They're not at the point in the investigation where they feel comfortable filing any formal charges at this point," Staples said during an interview with WCHS in May 1990.

Police set up a 24-hour tip-line trying to get any leads that would point them to the killer.

Lt. Jack Bishop, Sgt. Jerry Riffe and Sgt. Dallas Staples hold a press conference on March 23, 1990 to announce that Charleston police had set up a 24-hour tip line to solicit leads from the public on the murder of Lynn Priestley. (Photo Courtesy: Mysterious WV/Charleston Daily Mail/Photographer: Craig Cunningham)

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"This file is full of all the leads that were taken during that time," Hazelett said as he held a thick binder of notes and files he said contained probably 500 different tips. Some have come in as recently as 2002.

Hazelett said he is personally reading the case top to bottom. He noted that there was DNA evidence obtained at the time and it was sent off to an FBI lab. "As frustrating as it was, they got negative results in everything they sent out," he said.

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"This is a jigsaw puzzle and it's missing a little piece. I think, if everything goes right, we can connect this. We can solve this case," he said."I am going to take it upon myself to reopen it and see if we can't examine some of the evidence that was taken at the time and review all the statements to see if we can go in and figure anything out."

Priestley's parents have long since passed away and so has her only sister. It's a pain her friends say they can't fully explain.

"None of us want to go to our grave knowing there wasn't any justice for her," Barbara Sharps Looper, Priestley's friend since seventh grade, said."Out of all of our friends, all of my friends, she was the one who always wanted to get married and have children and she's the one that didn't. It's just so sad to know that all of these years have passed and we don't have closure for her."

Looper and Dreisbach both remember a now haunting conversation they both had with Priestley just days before she was killed.

"She told us that she had been seeing this guy and actually found out that he was married and she was going to break up with him that next week and low and behold she comes up missing," Looper said. "He was very possessive, according to her and she just wanted out."

"She said, 'I've just got to kick him to the curb because he's getting more and more possessive and clingy,'" Driesbach recalled Priestley saying. "She said, 'you know Jeanne, I know what I want and it's not him.'"

Both women wonder if they'll ever find closure and peace.

"Please, you've been living with this for 30 years, almost 31. Unburden yourself. Please come clean," Dreisbach said, speaking directly to the person who killed her best friend. "Or if you saw something, heard something. Although Lynn's biological family is pretty much gone, she still has some friends that a day doesn't go by when she is not missed. I have a 26-year-old daughter that never got to meet her Aunt Lynn."

Hazelett said police are urging the public to call them if they have any information that could close the case. You can reach them at 304-348-6480. Hazelett said he knows there are extreme challenges in a case this old, including the possibility that witnesses and any potential suspects are dead but he say he will still follow up on any information.

A photograph published in the Charleston Daily Mail on March 21, 1990 shows Charles and Blanche Priestley holding high school and childhood pictures of their daughter, Lynn. (Photo Courtesy: Mysterious WV/Charleston Daily Mail/Photographer: Craig Cunningham)

Lynn Priestley, 34, was strangled and her body found along the Kanawha River in March 1990. No arrests have ever been made for her murder. (Photo Courtesy: Mysterious WV/WV State Archives)

Eyewitness News would like to thank Mysterious WV for its help providing some of the photographs and newspaper archives for this story.