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There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

New York State Investigator Dave Madden heads up a team of four men and women

who work in a constant stream of murder cases.

And even he pointed out that it was a handgun

and Darling was shot with a shotgun.

Many of the homicides are fresh.

Some are decades cold.

He kind of substantiates everything he said 20 years ago, but gave us a little bit more information

on that.

One of the files opened by the squad takes them back to August of 1987 and the banks of the

Hudson River.

I was told to respond to this area in connection to an apparent homicide that occurred.

In August 1987, John Murray works homicide for the New York State Police.

As I walked down towards the end of the trail here and reaching the river,

I noted that there was a concrete shelf-like area, and against that shelf area,

there was a body of a woman lying partially submerged in the water.

Her back was scraped up from what looked like her sliding down this rough surface of the concrete into the river.

Initial signs point to murder.

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