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Mar 2024
38m 38s

Minerliz Soranio // 386

Dark West Productions
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In February of 1999, a teenage girl went missing while heading home from school in the Bronx. When her body was found days later in a dumpster behind a video rental store, police worked to find the person responsible. But after the case went cold, DNA technology would prove the devastating and shocking identity of her killer. This is the story of Minerliz Soriano.


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