Facing the Music

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When a young schoolteacher in Pennsylvania is murdered, her friends wonder if the killer will be caught. Following years without an arrest, investigators discover a new tool that may finally help unlock the murderer’s identity. Can police work fast enough to catch the suspect? Or will the killer slip away again? Andrea Canning reports.

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0:00.0	He said, Christie's been murdered.
0:03.0	She was taken so soon and so violently.
0:06.0	I couldn't stop shaking.
0:08.0	A young teacher leaving for school,
0:11.0	murdered before she could get out the door.
0:14.6	This was a horrific scene.
0:16.0	It was a nightmare scene.
0:17.6	She had Christmas presents that she was taking to her students that day.
0:21.2	I was petrified.
0:22.4	I just thought, who? Why? We looked. to her students that day. I was petrified.
0:22.5	I just thought, who?
0:23.8	Why?
0:24.7	We looked at suspect after suspect after suspect.
0:28.2	The crime was a mystery for decades.
0:30.9	We were still with no answer.
0:33.0	I mean, this poor family, we thought we might be able to solve this case.
0:37.0	Could cutting edge science yield a new clue?
0:40.0	This was a huge lead.
0:41.0	Absolutely.
0:42.0	This wasn't someone that they had had a reason to look at or talk to before.
0:45.6	He was here. He was here the whole time.
0:47.6	You are literally talking to Christie's Killer.
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