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They Went Christmas Shopping… Then Vanished | The Decker Murders (1982)
In December 1982, Gary and Donna Decker left their young son with family and went out Christmas shopping in North St. Louis County—something they had done countless times before.
They never made it home.
What started as a witness reporting a possible abduction quickly turned into a multi-jurisdiction investigation spanning Missouri and Illinois. Within hours, the Deckers were found murdered in East St. Louis, leaving investigators scrambling to piece together a timeline with limited technology and scattered evidence.
In this episode of The Brighter Side of Blue, we break the case down from a…
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