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On a September afternoon in 2000, an FBI forensics analyst stood in her lab in Quantico,

Virginia, staring into a microscope in confusion. She was looking at two strands of hair that

were evidence in a murder investigation, and something

just wasn't right.

She checked the label in the evidence bag the sample came from and then looked back into

the microscope, and she knew she was not imagining this.

The label had to be wrong, which meant that the detective who had packaged the hairs and sent

them over here for analysis

had not understood what he was even looking at.

And this was not a small mistake,

because if the analyst was right about what these hairs really were,

then this entire murder investigation was about to change.

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Okay, let's get into today's story. In the early evening of July 19, 2000,

In the early evening of July 19, 2000, 22-year-old Misty Morse carried her surfboard out of the water

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