On a fall morning in 1988, police in Nashua, New Hampshire walked into an apartment and found two women murdered in their bed.

What followed seemed at first like a case that would never truly reach an ending.

There were suspects, confessions, trials, and years of legal battles, but no final resolution. For decades, the killings of

Charlene Randstrom and Brenda Warner lingered in the background, a file sitting quietly among other

unsolved cases. But some investigations refuse to stay buried. Years later, new detectives took another look. With fresh eyes, new witnesses,

and forensic technology that hadn't existed when the crime was first investigated, the story

began to change. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Brenda Warner and Charlene Randstrom.

On Dark Down East.

Early on the morning of October 3, 1988,

police in Nashua, New Hampshire, were dispatched to an apartment building at 7 Mason Street

after receiving a call reporting what was described simply as a sudden death. It was 7.40 a.m. when

officers arrived and made their way upstairs to a second floor apartment. Inside the bedroom, they found

two women lying on the bed.

They were 48-year-old Charlene Randstrom and 32-year-old Brenda Warner.

Both women had been stabbed repeatedly, and their hands had been bound with strips of

towel.

The scene left little doubt for investigators.

This was a homicide.

The attack had been vicious.

Later autopsy results showed that Brenda and Charlene had been stabbed more than a dozen times each.

Carolyn Magnuson reports for the Nashua Telegraph that Charlene also had a black eye from blunt force trauma,

suggesting the violence had begun before the stabbing even started. Investigators collected a white athletic sock, bedding,

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