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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Cold Case: Who killed young Debbie Randall?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The unexpected discovery of DNA on clothing recovered from clothing worn by murdered Debbie Randall could lead to the person who killed the 9-year-old girl in 1972. Debbie was kidnapped from her Marietta, Georgia, neighborhood and found 8 miles away 16 days later. Cobb County Cold Case Detective Morris Nix tells Nancy Grace in this episode that the DNA is helping to close in on a suspect.

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0:00.0

Who killed Deborah Lynn Randall?

0:07.0

How do you do something like this in a living room?

0:11.0

Deborah Lynn Randall from January 13, 1972.

0:14.0

Debbie was 9 years old when she vanished.

0:17.0

It's been more than 43 years.

0:19.0

This is Cronstories with Nancy Grace.

0:22.0

Group of retired detectives volunteering their time determined to bring her family answer.

0:27.0

To the beautiful kids, you've got to be the picture you need to say to innocence.

0:31.0

Detective Nick says part of a rare group of retired police officers who specialize in solving cop counties cold cases.

0:38.0

If you're investigated, you're detected, if you're a cop, that's what you live for.

0:44.0

That don't call that family saying, sit down with the best mood news for you.

0:48.0

I'd give anything in back or turn that through it was before I passed.

0:53.0

We haven't forgotten and we're not going to give up.

0:57.0

Imagine on a cold winter's night, your 9-year-old little girl is at the laundry mat.

1:03.0

Boy, I remember going to the laundry mat just to have a block away, but she never makes it home.

1:10.0

And when you go looking for your 9-year-old little girl, all you find is a spilled box of laundry detergent across the street from your home.

1:22.0

It's the only evidence she was ever there.

1:26.0

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

1:31.0

I'm talking about cold case, 9-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall.

1:38.0

And we are still searching for answers along with me today.

1:43.0

It's, of course, Alan Duke, investigative reporter and special guest, Detective Morris Nyx.

1:52.0

Morris, thank you so much for being with us.

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