Closing the Cold Case of Robin Lawrence

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A gifted artist is murdered in her home. Her toddler is left at the crime scene to fend for herself. Anne-Marie Green reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We didn't know how it happened.
0:02.1	Who did it?
0:02.8	We didn't know any of that.
0:04.0	It doesn't add up.
0:05.3	It's pretty surreal that she is the subject of a murder mystery saga.
0:10.2	Samantha Wall, a beloved community leader from Detroit, was murdered, stabbed to death, and found laying outside her home.
0:16.9	To this day, no one has been convicted of the crime.
0:19.7	We investigate at the free press with a new series called Spiral, Murder in Detroit, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.2	All of the details of this are extremely bizarre.
0:45.3	All of the details of this are extremely bizarre. When you're dealing with a 30-year-old coal case, it seems like there's not a lot of hope.
0:51.3	It's a great photo, Robin. Mm-hmm.
0:55.0	But look what happened in the Robin Lawrence case.
0:58.0	Something sparked it.
1:00.0	That nobody ever expected.
1:02.0	It just caught everybody off guard.
1:04.0	Her husband, Ali, had been trying to reach Robin all weekend.
1:17.6	Ollie was out of the country.
1:19.6	Who else was in the house?
1:21.6	Nicole.
1:23.6	Her baby.
1:25.6	Well, Ali contacted me. He said, would you mind going over to the house and checking on her?
1:30.3	And I was like, yeah, sure.
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