Nona Dersmeyer has been dead almost as long as she was alive.

In hindsight, it seems like her murder was eminently solvable.

After all, there were signs of a violent struggle.

There must have been noise with so much blood. There must have been a boatload of physical evidence. But no.

It became obvious real early that when things didn't fit with the Russell Police

Department's investigation and their theory of the case,

that they ignored it, pushed it to the side.

There were half a dozen suspects.

One was the boyfriend.

He seemed like a logical choice to the police.

I'm telling you what I see. I'm telling you what I know.

And I'm telling you right now, you did this.

But then there was the parolee with the history of violence against women

who lived 30 steps from Nona's front door.

His apartment was a little bit higher than Nona's and he could stand out his front door and see Nona come and go. I mean he was just

right in front of her apartment.

In this

episode,

third set of jurors who heard this case.

It was intense.

I really came in the first day and was a nervous wreck.

You'll hear from Mark Frost, the detective who was charged with gathering that evidence.

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