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In 1997, a couple moved into their newly purchased home in Blind River, Ontario.

They did what any couple does after moving into a new house.

They made it their own.

That included some fresh paint and a few renovations.

But when the couple dug into the old walls, they found something that didn't belong there.

A clue that would solve a 37-year-old murder and bring a killer to justice.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

If you've listened to this podcast before, you probably already know that I'm from a small town.

I'm familiar with how they work, and I know how trusting people in small towns can be.

So, Gormley, Ontario, just north of Toronto, sounds really familiar to me.

In the 1970s, it was the kind of place where people leave their doors unlocked.

Or they used to, until the unthinkable happened.

One spring morning. In May of 1970, former nurse, Dorine Morby was busy doing household chores and taken care of her 21-month-old son when a stranger knocked on her door.

Like any good neighbor, Dorian opened the door to greet the man on her front step.

Several hours later, her husband returned home from his job as a school teacher to find

Doreen in a pool of her own blood. She'd been sexually assaulted and shot to death. Their baby

boy was where she had left him, in the same room, unharmed.

The Gormley community was stunned. How could something like this happen in a remote corner of their

safe little town? Sadly, they would not be the only community impacted by such brutal violence.

Less than two weeks later, and 25 miles away, nine-year-old Dale Ferguson was home sick from school.

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