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On the morning of April 8, 1981, 47-year-old Weldon Alexander finished his overnight shift at Cooper Tire in Texarkana, Arkansas.

Weldon worked the graveyard shift from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. He told police that he clocked out that morning at 7 o'clock sharp, just like he always did.

And he took his usual route, driving down Tennessee Street toward his house, which was just a few

minutes drive away at 501 Baden Street. Weldon had to stop and wait for a train, which added

about five minutes to his commute. but he still arrived home in around 15

minutes. When he got to the house, the first thing he noticed was the door. He saw that the door

to the small frame house, the last house on the left, was open. Weldon said that normally,

his 14-year-old daughter, Karen, would already be awake.

The house had a wooden door and a screen door. Weldon told police that both of those doors

were normally unlocked. And the routine was that Karen would usually get up around six. She would

start getting ready for school, and by about 6.30, she would open the door so that her dad could get back in when he

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