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Cold Case Files

A Knock At The Door

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The killing of a woman in a Virginia hotel room goes unsolved for a quarter of a century before investigators are finally able to zero in on the killer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

DNA, when used correctly, can be an extremely useful tool when it comes to matching a suspect

0:11.2

to a crime.

0:13.5

In many of the cases we've covered, the reason that it went cold was because the DNA technology

0:18.3

we used now wasn't available to the original investigators.

0:22.9

This is one of those cases.

0:26.9

The original detectives used the investigative tools of the time, but they simply weren't

0:31.5

able to connect the killer to the crime.

0:35.5

Cold case units, like the one in Fairfax County, Virginia, applied today's science to previously

0:41.2

unsolved cases.

0:45.9

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

0:48.8

I'm Brooke, and here's the impeccable Bill Curtis, with a classic case and knock at the

0:53.6

door.

0:54.6

This is the Cold Case homicide office.

1:02.9

It's part of the homicide squad in Fairfax County police, and this is where we store

1:08.8

a number of the cases that were...

1:10.4

Steve Molesky and Bob Murphy are Cold Case detectives for Fairfax County, Virginia.

1:15.8

These photographs only represent a small number, and we were...

1:18.3

Direct to the wall of their squad room, the faces of some of their victims.

1:25.0

It's sort of a matter of respect to these people that they're here, and it's our responsibility

1:27.9

to find answers to their deaths.

1:29.9

Any homicide detective will take you.

1:32.2

They have their cases that are really at the top of their list of what they would like

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