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Forensic Files

Sleight Of Hand

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired April 29, 2019. An elderly woman is murdered. Though investigators were able to lift prints from the scene, they failed to find a match and the crime went unsolved. Years later, advances in fingerprint science enable police to identify the print and the killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

People in this town, it's like the devil's in them.

0:05.2

HBO's official It Welcome to Derry Podcast.

0:08.1

Takes you back to Dairy 27 years before the Losers Club.

0:11.4

Then drags you into the sewers to uncover the history, lore, and horror of Maine's most sinister suburb.

0:20.7

I'm Mark Bernardin.

0:22.0

And I'm Princess Weeks.

0:23.2

Join us Sunday nights for a behind-the-scenes look at it.

0:25.8

Welcome to Derry,

0:26.9

premiering on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.

0:30.1

There's something bad here in Dairy.

0:37.2

In 1981, police found a partial print near a doorknob at a crime scene.

0:46.8

But without a suspect, police had no way to compare the print to the one million prints on file.

0:55.9

17 years later, new forensic technology changed that,

1:01.4

breathing new life into what was a very old crime.

1:09.8

Music Charles Whittlesey was one of this country's outstanding architects in the early 1900s.

1:25.8

He was the first to design poured concrete structures.

1:30.5

He designed and built all the train stations clear across the United States.

1:36.2

Albuquerque is one of his most famous,

1:38.3

and the next most famous, I would guess, would be El Travar at the rim of the Grand Canyon,

1:43.5

which he built in 1902.

1:46.2

Charles had four children, but his oldest daughter, Enid, identified with her father's

1:52.4

free spirit and creativity more than the others. Enid shunned family pressure to attend college

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