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Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's My Favorite Case. I'm your host, Anna Garcia,

and everyone in the world of True Crime has a story to tell about a case that they worked or that

they lived through. Some are high profile, some you've never heard of, but they are all absolutely

fascinating. Today's case is about a nine-year-old girl who went missing while going door-to-door

selling mints for campfire girls of America. Two weeks later, she was found murdered and she'd

been sexually assaulted. For 60 years, that little girl's killer got away with murder until

finally DNA evidence identified a suspect. Surprisingly, the killer's own daughter helped authorities

obtain that DNA. Our guest today is Kristen Middleman. The Chief Development Officer at

Authorham Labs. Authorham is a private DNA lab based out of Houston, Texas. They are known

for being able to analyze human DNA from the tiniest of qualities in the most degraded form ever.

Kristen, we are so thrilled to have you. We are huge fans of the work that Authorham Labs does here.

We've had your CEO, David On who also is your husband, and we're just thrilled. We are so thrilled

to discuss this case with you. Welcome. Thank you so much for having me on the show. I really

appreciate it. You know, right before we started recording, you were telling me that you and David,

you know, you're the two chiefs of Authorham Lab that you all met in a lab yourself at Baylor

Medical School. Unbelievable. Yeah, so 20 years ago, we were at Baylor College of Medicine. It

was the beginning of our medical career, and we were both pursuing PhDs. We were trying to see

gene therapy with work in neurons. I made blind mice and David cured the blind mice, and in the

process of that project, I realized that we were a great team, and we could probably solve any

problem together. And so here we are, 20 years later, working on DNA repair still and trying to

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