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Oct 2025
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Post Mortem | Closing the Cold Case of R...

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48 Hours correspondents Natalie Morales and Anne-Marie Green discuss the cold case of Robin Lawrence, who was home with her 2-year-old daughter when she was murdered by an unknown assailant. They discuss how advances in DNA technology and a volunteer genetic genealogist helped investigators zero in on the killer nearly thirty years later. 
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