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In the early 1970s, Rochester, New York was rocked by the murders of three little girls.

As the public and police debated whether the deaths were connected,

many noticed a strange coincidence. All three girls had double initials,

CC, WW and MM. Not only that, the towns they were found in also matched their initials.

Coincidence? Or the work of a methodical serial killer? I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Welcome back to Crime Lines. Tonight's episode was suggested a while back by Jaden.

So thank you for the case idea. I think I've mentioned it before on the show or maybe

on insight my previous podcast that I am a big Agatha Christie fan.

One of her books is called The ABC Murders, and the premise of this book is that a killer is

targeting people based on their initials. Alice Asher was killed in Andover, Betty Barnard was

killed in Bexel, and Sir Carmichael Clark in Churston. I won't give away the ending of the book,

though it has been out for 84 years, so I'm sure the statute of limitations for spoiler alerts has

run out, but I will say it's because of that book that this case first caught my eye,

but I didn't really dive into it until Jaden recommended I cover it. Before we start talking

about the similarities in these cases, let me lay these out individually, so we have a basis

for our discussion. We're going to start with 10-year-old Carmen Cologne, a bubbly little girl

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