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Forensic Files

The Alibi

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired July 15, 2019. After the rape and murder of a popular high school student, authorities ask the males in her social circles to volunteer DNA. When a match is found, the community is stunned.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In 1991, a high school girl vanished after attending a party.

0:06.9

Her abandoned vehicle was found in a school parking lot near her home.

0:12.6

The prime suspect had not one but two alibi witnesses for the night she disappeared.

0:20.3

A solid alibi can often overcome much circumstantial evidence.

0:27.1

But forensic evidence is another matter.

0:38.3

The United States... On a Saturday night in November of 1991, Todd, on a Saturday night in November of 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Fade Todd was dropped off in a mall parking lot after attending a party.

0:53.3

Since Crystal didn't have to be home for another hour,

0:56.4

she said she was going to get something to eat before heading home.

1:01.2

It was the last time Crystal was seen alive.

1:06.1

When she wasn't home by 1 a.m., her mother contacted police.

1:11.3

She also called Crystal's best friend, Ken Register, who said he hadn't seen Crystal all night.

1:17.9

After I talked to Ken Register, I called him one of my friends, and he got up out to bed and

1:22.6

come in.

1:23.1

We went all over Conway hunting her, see if we could find her car anywhere.

1:28.8

They found her car the next morning in a nearby school parking lot.

1:33.7

Her purse and coat were inside.

1:36.6

I don't know why I meant I had to feed it.

1:38.5

It's just something come over with me that somebody had Crystal.

1:42.6

17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd was a senior in high school living in the small tobacco

1:48.0

farming town of Conway, South Carolina.

1:52.0

I was 39 and she was born.

1:56.0

She was a miracle to me.

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