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Speaker 1: Candy was a nine year old girl. She lived in

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Speaker 1: an apartment above the grocery store with her mother. The

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Speaker 1: one solid rules she always had was to be home

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Speaker 1: before dark, and she wasn't.

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Speaker 2: When Candy went missing, an entire community search for her.

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Speaker 1: A patrolman noticed the little girl's knees sticking out from

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Speaker 1: a slash pile. So with that it becomes a homicide investigation.

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Speaker 2: It was nineteen fifty nine. For sixty two years, there

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Speaker 2: were no new leads on the case. It went cold.

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Speaker 3: If you just asked the people of any state, hey,

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Speaker 3: is you know there's like hundreds of people laying in

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Speaker 3: the cooler that no one's working the case, they would

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Speaker 3: be like.

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Speaker 2: What Candy's name was added to a list of unsolved murders.

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Speaker 2: Some of the victims don't even have names. We have

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Speaker 2: no idea who they are.

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Speaker 3: So you walk into the medical zoner, there's a wall

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Speaker 3: in the one walking cooler and it's just up and down,

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Speaker 3: up and down of bodies and bankers boxes. I just

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Speaker 3: think that we as society, we should send those people home.

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Speaker 2: You know, these are the coldest of cold cases. But

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Speaker 2: everything is about to change.

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Speaker 4: I called Zach, and I said, I think I have

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Speaker 4: a lead.

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Speaker 2: A small lab in Texas is cracking the code on

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Speaker 2: DNA using new scientific tools. They're finding clues in evidence

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Speaker 2: so tiny you might just miss it.

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Speaker 4: These cold case investigators will spend their careers working on

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Speaker 4: like a few cases, and now with like just very

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Speaker 4: basic technology that we can put in their hands, they

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Speaker 4: can go on to solve dozens of cases at a time.

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Speaker 2: And for the first time there's a solution. Even if

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Speaker 2: they burn their victim, or they pour acid on them,

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Speaker 2: or they put them in a sewage tank, you're still

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Speaker 2: going to get caught. Every week on America's Crime Lab,

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Speaker 2: we're opening cases that were so cold they were frozen

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Speaker 2: in time. We'll learn about victims and survivors, and you'll

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Speaker 2: meet the team behind the scenes at Authorm, the Houston

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Speaker 2: lap that takes on the most hopeless cases. Using cutting

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Speaker 2: edge science, they're discovering new clues in old evidence to

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Speaker 2: finally solve the unsolvable.

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Speaker 3: Man this guy burned alive in this boat. I was like, man,

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Speaker 3: that is heinous, right. She was pregnant, clearly murdered.

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Speaker 1: Her body was weighed down in the lake.

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Speaker 3: Mister Skinner discovered what appeared to be a human skull

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Speaker 3: between the studs of the wall.

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Speaker 1: A foot washed up, a shoe with some bones in

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Speaker 1: its fleshy material. They had no idea who it was.

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Speaker 2: Every case has a story to tell, and the DNA

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Speaker 2: holds the truth.

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Speaker 1: I said, I am a cold case detective and I

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Speaker 1: think you can help me with a homicide. The horror

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Speaker 1: is hitting her as we're speaking. It's hitting her daughter.

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Speaker 1: Her daughter eventually said, Mom, he's n needs your DNA.

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Speaker 1: It is like, holy, forgive my language. Holy, this is

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Speaker 1: that Actually the He's going to be the end of

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Speaker 1: the Candy Rogers case. We cannot drop the ball now.

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Speaker 2: Listen to America's Crime Lab starting July sixteenth on the

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Speaker 2: I truly believe it's a matter of time. Every case

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Speaker 2: that is a cold case that has DNA right now

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Speaker 2: on a backlog will be identified in our lifetime.