A Washington mother was found dead in her home in 1992, her toddler beside her, and for 33

years, the case went nowhere.

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Sometime on or around the night of November 7, 1992, Janice Randall died inside her home in Graham

Washington. Her body was found the next morning on her bed, dressed only in a sweatshirt and

underwear. In a crib, a few feet away, her 18-month-old daughter was alive and unharmed.

The room told a story. The table beside the bed had been shoved hard against the wall. A lamp

crushed in the gap between them. There was visible bruising on Janice's body. A chair had

been wedged against the front door from the inside, but the back sliding door was unlocked.

Her estranged husband had an explanation.

Janice and her husband had been separated and were in the middle of a divorce.

He told investigators she'd probably overdosed on painkillers.

She had a history of using them, he said, and this was most likely what had happened.

Investigators treated the case as a death investigation, a possible overdose, no immediate

homicide classification, no arrest. Then the toxicology results came back. There were no drugs

in Janice Randall's system, none at all. The case was reclassified as a homicide, and almost immediately it hit a wall.

Pierce County investigators now had a murder, but not much else.

Physical evidence from 1992 had limits that modern forensics don't, and over time, original

reports and some booked evidence were destroyed.

What remained was a partial record, scene photographs, medical examiner files, and a polygraph

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