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Feb 2022
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"The Kensington Strangler" Antonio Rodri...

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In 2010 a serial killer terrorized an area of Philadelphia known as the Badlands. Police swabbed hundreds of men for DNA before a CODIS backlog revealed they’d had what they needed all along.

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