Welcome back to 48 hours post-mortem. I'm your host, Anne Marie Green. And today we're talking to CBS News

national correspondent of Vladimir Dutier about the murder of Solonia Reed in Hammond, Louisiana.

In 1987, Solonia's husband, Reginald, said that she went out to a local bar with a girlfriend and that she never came back home.

Reginald filed a missing person's report the next day and gave a description of the car that she drove.

Well, shortly after that, a patrol officer discovered

Salonia's car parked at a nearby grocery store. Inside, they found her body. She had been stabbed

16 times. Solonia's son, Reggie Jr. was only six years old at the time, and for over three

decades, her murder went unsolved. And then in 2012, 25

years after the murder, Reggie was shocked to learn that his own father was a prime suspect in the

case. So, Vlad, thanks for joining us today. It's great to be here. Thanks, Anne-Rory.

We want to remind everyone that if you

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going to talk a little bit more about it. All right, Val, let's get into this. Back in 1987, there were actually

already a couple pieces of evidence that pointed to Reginald Sr. Right? There was a witness.

A witness that came forward spotted Reginald and spotted his friend Jimmy Ray Barnes at the crime

scene that night that she was murdered.

The witness wrote down his license plate.

Investigators also discovered that Reginald had taken out several life insurance policies on her leading up to the murder.

If you watch 48 hours, you know, life insurance policies, like that's always, you know, that's always a little suspect. That's a red flag. Why wasn't he charged in the very beginning? It's probably one of the

most confounding questions of this investigation that we did. First of all, the DA from back in 1987 has died. So we can't

understand or know why he didn't charge Reginal. But we do know that Lieutenant Barry Ward,

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