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Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

Under a tree, shielded from rain and shadowed from view is a small heart-shaped marker.

Detective Morris Knicks knows the spot well, along with every detail of this little girl's brutal death.

How do you do something like this in a living room?

Every detail, except who killed Deborah Lynn Randall.

She was a beautiful kid, you could look at her picture and you can say the innocence.

Detective Knicks is part of a rare group of retired police officers who specialize in solving Cobb County's cold cases.

And every one of them is familiar with Debbie's face and her case file.

Deborah Lynn Randall from January 13, 1972.

A third-grade little girl. Can you imagine that? Is there anything sweeter? A third-grade little girl goes missing.

Then the worst, her body found.

Her killer, her rapist and killer has never been brought to justice.

But there is one man who is unrelenting and solving the case of Debbie Randall.

And he's joining us now. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

It was a beautiful balmy evening when Debbie Randall, a beautiful little girl who loved Barbie dolls, her friends, baby dolls, cheerleadings.

She went that evening to suds and duds, a laundromat close to her home.

When she left that evening, she was never seen again.

Take a listen to what an eyewitness says who comes forward years later.

Sandra, what made you decide to come forward this much later?

My sister was for Cobb County Dill and she told me the case had been reopened.

And I thought it had been closed on a long time ago. And I told her, I saw it happen.

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