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Sep 2020
23m 39s

Calculated Coincidence

HLN
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A young woman is found dead in her apartment. There’s little evidence at the scene, leads don’t pan out and the case turns cold... until police discover a link between their prime suspect and an unsolved murder committed six years earlier in different state. 

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