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You took 45 years away from my mother, and I am asking you to come forward and give up the rest of your life so that we can have the closure that we deserve.

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

You lose your best friend for life.

You have special moments throughout your life that you should be able to share with your mom and you can't.

You get married, you have children, you miss out on all of that.

45 years ago in November of 1976,

Doddy Milliken was beaten to death outside of a laundromat in Lewiston, Maine.

Her daughter is still looking for her mother's killer.

I'm joined by reporter Chris Costa in a busy newsroom at News Center, Maine, in Portland, Maine.

This case, over four decades old, how did it come back up?

How did it come to your

attention? So here's kind of how the timeline played out from my end as a reporter. We knew the

anniversary was coming up. We did a little preview piece on the Friday before the anniversary,

which was a Saturday. So we did the preview piece on November 5. The anniversary was on the 6th. And I was

told over the weekend that after somebody had seen the story, that they'd reached out anonymously to

Dotty Milliken's daughter and said, hey, I know you have a $10,000 reward already. I'd like to

contribute another $5,000 in hopes of getting somebody to come forward. So it was pretty cool.

Chris, let's go back to November 6th of 1976 and what we know about what happened to Dottie

Milliken in the early morning hours. Dottie Milliken had remarried. Her daughter, Tanya, was staying

with Dottie's sister. And Dottie was getting ready to come back

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