He left and went and passed out and woke up the next day and he said it seemed like a dream.

And he remember thinking himself, what the hell did I do last night?

What did I do? I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anaseika Nicholazzi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries true conviction.

And this is anatomy of murder.

Last year in Charlotte, North Carolina, there was a homicide investigation that got her attention,

both for the method in which the case was solved, which involved new methods of DNA forensics,

as well as the extraordinary circumstances behind its final dramatic

conclusion.

Extraordinary because it had been 39 years since this double homicide was committed

and to say it had long gone cold was an

understatement. This case was frozen solid with no leads, no suspects and

no justice for his victims for nearly four decades.

But as you will hear, there was a dedicated group of law enforcement officers that just refused to let it go.

And one of them was today's guest detective Matt Hefner, a veteran

investigator and native of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

I've been a police officer for 25 years and around 2019 I switched over to the homicide

coal case unit that's basically all I've ever done it in Charlotte is work

murders. As a member of the coal case squad he inherited a case that has stumped many detectives before him.

A case that began all the way back on March 14, 1984, when friends of 27-year-old Sarah Mobley Hall went to her apartment after

failing to reach her by phone.

According to the friends as soon as they knocked on the door they immediately

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