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The Phone Number on Her Palm: How Dawn's Ink Unmasked a Killer
The Phone Number on Her Palm: How Dawn's Ink Unmasked a Killer
Cold ink on skin survived Maine winter, then nearly erased by March frost-investigators had to remove skin to read the phone number that finally gave her a name. A seventeen-year-old carried one contact as her only safety net while hitchhiking toward a missing friend-how did that smudged number turn an anonymous body into Dawn Marie Birnbaum, and almost let a killer go free?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the night Dawn left her residential program through the discovery of her body and the forensic work that…
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