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On August 20th 1986 a post office employee killed 14 people in Edmund a suburb of Oklahoma City

The man went back and forth of the police until finally turning his gun on himself

As you can imagine a lot of manpower went into the investigation of that case and

The incident itself was broadcasted on all the news outlets

Four days earlier on August 16th a different tragic crime had taken place in Edmund

Gary Larson had been murdered in his own home and his fiancee was raped repeatedly

But she survived

Every detective that had been assigned to solve Gary Larson's murder was

Diverted to the postal shooting just four days later

By the time the detectives were finishing the postal case paperwork

The witnesses and other possible leads to the man who attacked Gary and his fiance were practically non-existent

It took 18 years to make up for the delayed investigation and

To finally arrest Gary Larson's killer

From a and e this is cold case files I'm Brooke and here's the legendary Bill Curtis with a classic case the peeper

It was obviously starting to slow down because we were getting into those morning hours

Officers Steve Day works the graveyard shift in Edmund, Oklahoma

Just before 6 a.m. A call comes over his radio

The dispatcher told me it was possibly a DOA which made me think well, obviously

Sounds like pretty serious

Day is the first to arrive at 1228 Harding Avenue a one-story ranch house

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