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Post Mortem | Closing the Cold Case of Robin Lawrence

48 Hours

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True Crime, News Commentary, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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48 Hours correspondents Natalie Morales and Anne-Marie Green discuss the cold case of Robin Lawrence, who was home with her 2-year-old daughter when she was murdered by an unknown assailant. They discuss how advances in DNA technology and a volunteer genetic genealogist helped investigators zero in on the killer nearly thirty years later. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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welcome to post-mortem. I'm Natalie Morales, filling in today as your host to talk about a story that 48 hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green reported on.

0:49.7

It's about the cold case murder of Robin War Lawrence, which was finally solved after nearly

0:56.2

30 years with the help of advances in DNA testing and the tireless efforts of a pro bono

1:03.0

genetic genealogist. Amory, so good to have you with us. What a fascinating story to be

1:08.5

able to report on. It really is.

1:11.2

It's a case a lot of people thought would never be solved.

1:14.0

And just want to remind our listeners once again, if you haven't listened to the 48

1:17.3

hours episode yet, you can find the full audio just below this episode in your podcast feed.

1:23.4

Go take a listen, then come on back here for our conversation.

1:27.4

Well, it was on the night of November 18, 1994, when Robin War Lawrence was at her home in Springfield, Virginia, when an intruder broke in and stabbed her multiple times to her death.

1:40.7

Her husband, Ollie, was away on a business trip in the Bahamas, and after being unable to

1:45.8

reach her all weekend, he then asked their friend, Lori Lindbergh, to stop by and check on his

1:52.0

wife. Well, two days after the murder, Lori entered the house and saw blood on the wall, and of course,

1:59.7

the couple's two-year-old daughter, Nicole, just wandering around by herself.

2:04.4

So tragic.

2:05.4

I mean, to think of little Nicole there at that young age, you know, witness whatever she witnessed.

2:12.5

Yeah.

2:13.0

Well, that's the thing about it.

2:14.3

You know, that's what Lori says in the hour that she could just see this sort of vacant expression on this little girl's face. She knows like there's something really,

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