August 26th: Cynthia May Hernandez Killed (1976)
An unsolved case is always one small mistake, one tiny piece of new evidence, one odd new detail, away from being solved. On August 26th 1976 a young girl disappeared and her case went unsolved for decades. A case that, given a few small mistakes and one new piece of evidence, was able to be solved and bring closure to her family.
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