Detective's haunting case: Oklahoma teacher's aide murdered by husband

In the quiet rural community of Macomb, Oklahoma, a woman who spent her days nurturing children as a teacher's aide was taken by the person who was supposed to protect her most. Makayla Meave's disappearance in September 2023 set in motion a 38-day investigation that revealed not only a calculated act of violence, but the lengths to which one person will go to erase another. Her husband Frank Byers, now sentenced to life without parole, could not erase what she meant — to her family, to the detective who refused to leave her side, or to the community now carrying her name forward.