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December 22nd, 1967

Chicago, Illinois.

After leaving work and picking up his son from school, Dr. John Brainyn returns home to discover

that his wife Donna Brainyn has been shot to death. When a Walter PPK and four bullets are

discovered to be missing from the home, Dr. Brainyn is charged with the murder.

Even though Brainyn appears to have a solid alibi and his defense team argues there was not

enough time for him to have killed his wife, he is found guilty at trial. But please the country

after attempting to appeal the verdict. Brainyn is eventually recaptured and dies in 1990,

but questions remain about whether the right person was convicted of the crime.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our newest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Rob and Warder and we're going to be covering a pretty controversial case on

the podcast today, the 1967 murder of Donna Brainyn. This case is pretty unique in that it's

technically solved, but a lot of debate still surrounds what actually happened.

The story was featured on unsolved mysteries as one of their final appeal segments,

in which they would examine a case where someone had been convicted of a crime,

but there was some doubt about whether they were actually guilty.

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