Forensic Tales

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Lucille Johnson Feb 17, 2025

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#268 - A 78-year-old grandmother was found dead inside her Salt Lake City, Utah, home in February 1991. But for years, her brutal murder baffled investigators. Who would want to kill an elderly lady inside her very own home?

The case remained a mystery for two decades until investigators got the clue needed from a very unlikely source: A children’s Lego piece.

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Janet Abaroa Feb 10, 2025

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#267 - In April 2005, 25-year-old Janet Abaroa was discovered stabbed to death inside her North Carolina home - she had been found by her husband, Raven. Nothing else in the home was disturbed, and the couple’s 6-month-old son, Kaiden, was found unharmed in another bedroom. The question of who killed Janet became a mystery that quickly captivated the Durham, North Carolina, community. Despite its popularity, the case has remained unsolved for years. It wasn’t until authorities got a clue from a very unlikely source, contact lenses, that progress was finally made in the case.

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Janet Abaroa Feb 10, 2025

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Jeanne Childs Feb 03, 2025

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#266 - It’s a case that haunted the authorities for decades. A woman is stabbed to death a total of 65 times inside her Minneapolis apartment. Although the scene overflowed with physical and forensic evidence, the case eventually turned cold. It wasn’t until the police collected DNA from a hot dog napkin that they finally got the break they had hoped for.

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Jeanne Childs Feb 03, 2025

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Holly Bobo Jan 27, 2025

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#265 - A beautiful young nursing student is abducted from her parent's house in Tennessee, sparking a nationwide manhunt. But even after six people are arrested, is there enough forensic evidence to explain exactly what happened to Holly Bobo?

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Holly Bobo Jan 27, 2025

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Brown's Chicken Massacre Jan 20, 2025

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#264 - In January 1993, seven people were shot and killed inside a Brown’s Chicken fast-food restaurant in Chicago, becoming one of the deadliest mass shootings in the area at the time. For years, the case was cold, with very few leads. It wasn’t until evidence collected from a trash can at the crime scene was tested that investigators finally got a break.

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Brown's Chicken Massacre Jan 20, 2025

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Lane Bryant Shooting Jan 13, 2025

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#263 - On February 2nd, 2008, a man posing as a delivery driver walked into a Lane Bryant clothing store in a Chicago suburb with a gun. He ordered the six women inside the store to the back room, where he duct-taped their hands behind their backs and eventually shot all of them. Despite a massive manhunt involving multiple law enforcement agencies, the shooter remains at large.

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