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Sep 2021
41m 14s

Haunting Images

NBC NEWS
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Using DNA testing and a photographer's diary, a retired detective reopens an unsolved murder case in this Dateline classic reported by Keith Morrison. Originally aired on NBC on March 4, 2011. 
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