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20/20

The Code Breakers

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

David Muir investigates how cutting-edge forensic DNA technology has led to long-awaited justice in two murder cases that remained unsolved for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.9

Tonight we take you inside two cases.

0:03.7

Two young women both brutally murdered in their homes.

0:06.9

The killers in each case evading police for decades.

0:10.5

In one case, a mother just 19 years old,

0:13.4

she was engaged to be married.

0:15.4

Her fiance, who was about to marry her, adopt her daughter.

0:24.1

He gets home, and he immediately notices something is wrong.

0:29.9

There's blood smeared on the stairway.

0:33.0

The killer had attacked her in the bedroom.

0:37.1

There was handprints of her trying to hold the door closed and she just wasn't strong enough.

0:40.3

Another case in Texas, a beloved teacher, her whole future ahead of her.

0:44.3

Drove in to Memphis.

0:47.3

She just started a new school.

0:49.3

She was loving teaching, her students.

0:53.3

She was in a very good place.

0:55.2

No, what was your emergency?

0:57.6

What's going on?

0:59.0

What did your daughter do?

1:02.6

She'd been murdered!

1:04.6

You remember walking in and what you discovered.

1:06.7

I remember walking into the bathroom

1:08.7

and seeing her body on the floor. She'd been handcuffed.

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