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Nov 2021
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The Murder of Wilma June Nissen Part 1:...

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 In October of 1978, when the body of an unknown woman was discovered off a highway in rural Iowa, local authorities had no idea it would take 28 years to identify the victim—or that her identification would also connect them to a daughter, determined to solve her mother's murder. 

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