Summary
Twenty-four years after the death of a 15-year-old in California, forensic scientists discover enough microscopic evidence to finally bring the killer to justice.
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| 0:00.0 | She was home alone, making the dress she planned to wear |
| 0:05.0 | on her Friday night date. |
| 0:08.0 | But she had an uninvited visitor. |
| 0:15.0 | It took 24 years before forensic science |
| 0:18.0 | could identify the individual who was there that fateful night. |
| 0:23.6 | It was 1962. President John F. Kennedy was leading the country at the height of the Cold War. |
| 0:41.3 | The world anxiously watched as the United States confronted the Soviet Union over suspected missile sites in Cuba. |
| 0:49.3 | All ships of any kind bound for Cuba, will they're found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons |
| 0:56.0 | be turned back. |
| 0:58.0 | Racial tensions in the United States |
| 1:00.0 | weren't as easily deflected. |
| 1:02.0 | De-segregation of southern schools |
| 1:04.0 | pit blacks against whites. |
| 1:07.0 | Leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., |
| 1:10.0 | articulated a message of hope and reason. |
| 1:13.6 | I have a dream that someday, this nation will rise up. |
| 1:21.6 | Hundreds of miles away, in the small town of Hanford, California, |
| 1:28.3 | racial tension and the arms race were less important than |
| 1:32.3 | tending to business and making ends meet. |
| 1:36.3 | It was a small community, everybody knew everybody else. |
| 1:39.3 | It was all first-name basis. |
| 1:41.3 | Even all the races were all friendly. |
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