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Oct 2025
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The Knot (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

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On a September afternoon in 2000, an FBI forensics analyst stood in her lab in Quantico, Virginia, staring into a microscope in confusion.  She was looking at two strands of hair that were evidence in a murder investigation. And something wasn’t right.  She checked the label on the evidence bag the sample came from, then looked back into the microscope. She ... Show More
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