Special Episode: Solving Cold Cases with DNA

The Knife: A True Crime Podcast

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True Crime

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Elin Lantz Lesser joins us to talk about a cold case that haunted Texas for more than four decades, the 1974 murder of Carla Walker. Recently solved through DNA and genetic genealogy, Elin, host of America’s Crime Lab, walks us through how new science finally brought answers to a case that had gone cold for over 40 years.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:05.9	Hi listeners, we think you'll enjoy this new true crime podcast called The Chinatown Sting.
0:11.7	In the 1980s, Tina Wong was a new mother living in Manhattan's Chinatown when her best friend asked her for help with a project.
0:19.0	All she had to do was accept a package and Tina would get paid.
0:22.6	Struggling to make ends meet, she agreed and unknowingly found herself at the center of an international drug smuggling operation.
0:29.8	When the feds were tipped off, Tina had two choices, spend decades in prison, or risk her life helping the government bring down the man at the helm,
0:38.2	one of New York's most notorious gangsters, no matter the cost.
0:41.9	Listen to the Chinatown staying wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.5	The Girlfriends is back with a new season, and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly
0:50.3	Harnett. Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit.
0:55.9	As she fought for her freedom, she taught herself the law.
0:59.1	He goes, oh God, Arnett, jailhouse lawyer.
1:02.2	And became a beacon of hope for the women locked up alongside her.
1:06.3	You're supposed to have been faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her.
1:09.2	I think I was put here to save souls by getting people out of prison.
1:14.4	The Girlfriends, Jailhouse Lawyer.
1:16.6	Listen on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:22.5	This story contains adult content and language.
1:25.8	Listener discretion is advised.
1:27.5	Yeah. contains adult content and language. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to The Knife. I'm Hannah Smith.
1:47.4	I'm Hesha Eaton. It's a very special day today. We have an episode out, and it's not Thursday.
1:54.2	What? How wild. How wild and unpredictable of us.
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