DNA: Girls in Tacoma (Patreon)

3 young girls were murdered in very similar fashions near Tacoma Washington from the mid 70s to the mid 80s. For years police thought they were connected until shocking DNA evidence was revealed in 2016. But it would take two more years before the DNA in two cases could lead to the girls' killers. 

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Sources for this Episode:

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