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Jan 2024
35m 46s

Jane Britton // 376

Dark West Productions
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In January of 1969, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate student headed out for dinner and ice skating with her boyfriend. After returning home to her Cambridge apartment that night, she was bludgeoned to death. For nearly fifty years, her murder would go unsolved. Then, with the help of Ancestry DNA, police uncovered a serial killer. This is the story of Jane Britton. 


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