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Hey, it's James. I'm taking the New Year's week off, but I didn't want to leave you without something to listen to.

So today I'm dropping in an episode from a show I

really respect, hosted by my friend Tricia Terenskas. Her latest work is a three-part investigative

series titled Who Killed Kelly? It focuses on a cold case from 1984, the murder of Kelly Gene

Robinson, a 22-year-old woman who was found dead floating in a gravel pit pond in rural Minnesota.

Then 40 years later, something unexpected happened.

A man who had been adopted as an infant took a couple of those at-home DNA tests and learned that Kelly Robinson was his biological mother. That discovery reopened

everything. For this series, Trisha obtained the official investigative file, and the things it revealed were striking.

For example, all previously undisclosed suspects, including one, Tricia actually visits in his home for this story.

Witness statements from people who last saw Kelly alive, critical autopsy details that changed

what the family and public believed about her death, and a long list of physical evidence,

including one from the autopsy, which, well, I don't want to spoil the story for you.

But it raises a question that's hard to shake. If that evidence existed, where did it go?

As a result of Trisha's reporting in this series, the Rock County Sheriff's Office, in coordination with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension,

has committed to reviewing

Kelly Robertson's case again. The following is careful, document-driven reporting. Here is

Who Killed Kelly by Tricia Terenskis. I got a phone call. I suppose that day I went outside and screamed.

They said she drowned, but they suspected foul play,

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