Edna Laughman Part 1 of 2

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Episode 89 Edna Laughman Part 1 of 2

In 1987, someone broke into Edna Laughman's home and suffocated and raped the 85 year old widow. She was found by her relative and best friend, Madeline Laughman. Within 2 weeks, Madeline's son was arrested for Edna's slaying. Barry Laughman "confessed" to the crime, and was tried, convicted, and spent 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Barry was finally exonerated by updated DNA testing in 2003. But the investigation into who killed his elderly relative was back to Square 1. The case languished until forensic genealogy pointed the investigators to Edna's killer – someone who had been right under their noses the whole time.

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0:46.3	I'm It was 1987.
1:08.5	Edna Lachman's relatives were concerned about her. Oscar and Madeline Lachman were
1:14.3	caretakers of sorts of the elderly widow. Oscar was a distant cousin of Edna's. Edna's husband had died
1:21.6	20 years earlier, and at 85, she was still independent and lived alone. But Edna had fallen and hurt herself on more than one
1:28.8	occasion, and she needed someone to keep an eye out for her well-being. Oscar and Madeline lived
1:34.2	two doors down from Edna. Her dilapidated farmhouse was at 1560 Carlyle Pike in Oxford Township,
1:41.3	Pennsylvania, and theirs was at 1580 Carlyle Pike. They were her closest
1:46.3	relatives in terms of proximity, as they could see her house from theirs, and Edna and Madeline were
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