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

Police had their suspicions, but little proof.

An old-used tissue told the story far better than any eyewitness.

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

She weighed 1 pound and 14 ounces, three months premature, but she was so determined to live that she made it in and they took her home and she was blind in one of the cases.

She was blind in one eye from the incubator at that time and she also had a paralysis on her right side.

As Laura grew up in popular bluff Missouri, she slowly overcame these physical challenges and emerged as a gifted student.

She worked that paralysis nearly completely out and she never let that disability blindness ever hold her back from her desires or what she wanted to be and what she wanted to do.

Laura's dream was to work in healthcare to help others as she had been helped and she achieved that by becoming a hospital pharmacy technician.

Oh, she's a sweetheart. The people that she associated with there were pretty much her friends and as well as her co-workers.

Nice girl.

Laura's friends looked out for her professionally and personally and when she didn't show up for work one morning, they called her mother.

So her mother said, well, go down and check and see, you know, so the landlady opened the door and let her in and when she went in, she found Laura.

Laura had been murdered on her bed, strangled with her stocking.

Laura's eye glasses were on the living room couch without them. She was literally blind.

It appeared she'd been attacked in her living room and murdered in her bedroom.

This was a crime of power control and she was sitting ahead on her blind side.

At first, the motive appeared to be robbery. We discovered that there were several items missing from the apartment, her perch, her some of her underwear, some shoes, some clothing.

But there was no sign of forced entry.

Did that mean Laura knew her killer and let him in the apartment?

In retracing Laura's steps on the night of her murder, investigators discovered that she left her job at the hospital around 630, then went to her usual hangout, a local bar where she had a few drinks and talked with friends.

Laura's neighbor recalled seeing her get out of her car and walk into her apartment around 1115.

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