Jean Pool

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Police investigating the 1984 murder of a college student had plenty of suspects, but no conclusive evidence linking any of them to the crime. More than a decade later, sophisticated technology would breathe new life into a case grown cold with the passage of time.

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0:00.0	Up next, a college co-ed is left for dead in the lover's lane.
0:05.0	The blood's consistent with her being struck up at 10 times.
0:08.0	There were plenty of suspects, but very few answers.
0:12.0	The samples could have originated from 20% of the population.
0:16.0	Was it a random murder or jealousy?
0:18.0	It could have her. Nobody else could.
0:21.0	For decades, the case went unsolved until now.
0:25.0	He is a cold-blooded killer.
0:27.0	They wanted to solve this.
0:29.0	At the end of a long day in May of 1984, a farmer in Tennessee made a startling discovery.
0:46.0	He noticed some clothing lying in the field.
0:49.0	There was actually a body lying there.
0:52.0	The victim was a young girl wearing only a bra.
0:56.0	Her body was covered with two pairs of jeans and a dark jacket.
1:03.0	One pair of jeans was hers.
1:06.0	The other was a pair of men's jeans.
1:09.0	Also, there was a black jacket across her body with a slave tie around her neck.
1:14.0	And a pair of panties as she was clutching in her right hand.
1:17.0	She was identified as 18-year-old Laura Salmon, a local college student.
1:24.0	Her life was stolen. Her life was stolen.
1:29.0	And in such a horrible way.
1:32.0	The autopsy revealed Laura Salmon died of blunt force trauma to the head.
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