Post Mortem | The Mother I Wish I Knew
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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48 Hours correspondents Anne-Marie Green and Natalie Morales discuss the 1988 murder of Debe Atrops, a young Oregon mother found strangled in the trunk of her car. They examine early red flags pointing to her estranged husband, Bob Atrops, the evidence presented at trial 37 years later, and how their daughter, Rhianna, maintains that her father is innocent.
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| 0:57.5 | welcome back to post-mortem i'm your host Anne Marie Green, and joining me today's 48 |
| 1:14.9 | hours correspondent Natalie Morales. We are going to discuss the case of Deborah Aetrops. Now, back in |
| 1:21.6 | 1988, the young mother was found strangled to death in the trunk of her car in Oregon. For decades, her murder |
| 1:28.8 | remained unsolved, and it would take 37 years to bring her killer to justice. Joining me now is |
| 1:36.1 | Natalie. Hi, Ann Marie. Good to be with you. Hey, Natalie. It's always good to be with you. This is one of |
| 1:41.3 | those hours that I just kind of went back and forth. I was so |
| 1:45.0 | convinced that they, you know, that they had the right suspect and they then they had the wrong |
| 1:49.0 | suspect. I just, I was ping ponging. I think it even for me, as I was reporting on this case, |
| 1:54.5 | it was, I was very conflicted, even our producers, we were conflicted. But this case was cold |
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