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in the 90s in the 90s New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

Putting bad guys away.

There's no feeling like it.

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

Scracella took me to the precinct and were alive. 20 men eventually walked. Hamilton. Listen to the burden on the

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It all started with two federal agents who heard a rumor.

She mentions, well, there is this alleged murder to have taken place.

There was just one problem. They had no clue who the victim was. We have to do our

job and we have to find out who did they kill? It had been 15 years since this alleged murder. Was it still

possible to unearth the truth. I used to watch the unsolved mystery shows and I

often thought about calling because I was like this is this is not right.

How can the person get killed and no one knows anything?

I'm Jake Halpern and this is Deep Cover The Nameless Man.

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F.M. slash Plus. It all started with a rumor. It went like this. Back in 1989 on prom night a teenager boasted that he had just committed murder. He showed off a freshly

inked tattoo a badge of honor for the killing. Or so the rumor went. No one took it

seriously until 2004 when two federal agents began looking into it.

But here's the thing.

Unlike almost every other murder case, in this case, the agents had a suspect, but no idea who the victim was.

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