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Forensic Files

Message In A Bottle

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired March 7, 2019. For twelve years, the murder of a young woman went unsolved, but with the passage of time came the development of technology. Would a used tissue found at the crime scene give police the evidence they needed to crack the case and bring a killer to justice? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

For 12 long years, the murder of a young hospital worker went unsolved.

0:08.0

Police had their suspicions but little proof.

0:12.0

But an old used tissue told a story far better than any eyewitness.

0:34.1

From the moment she was born, Laura Wynn was fighting the odds.

0:39.9

She weighed one pound and 14 ounces, three months premature.

0:44.8

But she was so determined to live that she made it. And they took her home, and she was blind in one eye from the incubator at that time.

0:52.8

And she also had a paralysis on her right side.

0:57.9

As Laura grew up in Poplar Bluff, Missouri,

1:02.0

she slowly overcame these physical challenges

1:04.8

and emerged as a gifted student.

1:08.1

She worked that paralysis nearly completely out, and she never let that disability blindness

1:15.2

ever hold her back from her desires of what she wanted to be and what she wanted to do.

1:21.9

Laura's dream was to work in health care, to help others as she had been helped.

1:29.2

And she achieved that by becoming a hospital pharmacy technician.

1:34.5

Oh, she's a sweetheart.

1:36.1

The people that she associated with there were pretty much her friends,

1:40.5

as well as her coworkers.

1:45.5

Nice girl, Nice girl.

1:47.0

Nice girl.

1:48.6

Laura's friends looked out for her professionally and personally.

1:53.6

And when she didn't show up for work one morning, they called her mother.

1:59.4

So her mother said, well, I'll go down and check and see, you know.

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