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Jul 2022
25m 48s

Smoking Gun

HLN
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A hearing impaired 77-year-old on a road trip is attacked by a thief and shot to death. Why? Because the man cannot hear his assailant’s demands. Random murders are among the hardest crimes to solve but investigators are determined to bring this killer or killers to justice. Can advances in ballistics testing crack the case?  To learn more about how HLN prot ... Show More
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