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Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, June 4th, and almost 40 years ago to the day.

A young woman by the name of Roberta Walls was sexually assaulted and murdered.

They never found her killer until now. And with that,

welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Presents. And Robs won a lot of chilling stuff about this case.

And a lot of stuff that gives you chills. But a part of it is robes. They caught the killer almost 40 years to the date of her death.

It's remarkable. When you hear the announcement of this arrest, obviously the family has been waiting for decades, but so many of the detectives and the police who feverishly worked on trying to solve this case have already

died. They didn't even live to see this day where they finally found the guy who police say

is responsible for, yes, the 1986 rape and murder of 22-year-old Roberta Walls.

We know at this point, Robes, when people hear these cases, cold cases, things being solved, we know it's going to be a DNA case.

That's the only way. Thank God for technology.

And that's exactly what happened in this case.

And look, when making this announcement, they credited this police department all those

years ago for preserving the evidence. It's one of those things where they didn't know what they

didn't know. They didn't know that there would be advanced technology four decades later that would

literally solve this case, that the evidence was right there in their folders, in their

police evidence locker room, but it just didn't know how to be read, basically.

I'm always fascinated by that. How could 40 years ago anybody have good insight? I would just

get rid of this or throw it over here. But we see this in case

after case after case. I know there's a lot of criticism sometimes of how evidence is handled

and police procedures, but robs, some of this stuff, something is working well because there are

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