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Murder of Farmer’s Wife Shocks Small Iowa Town
The episode detail two high-profile cold case murder investigations that occurred in small-town Iowa. The first case examines the 2015 shooting of Shirley Carter, which resulted in a rare civil trial where a father successfully sued his son, Jason Carter, for wrongful death before a criminal jury later acquitted him. The second narrative follows the forty-year search for the killer of teenager Michelle Martinko, who was stabbed to death at a mall in 1979. Investigators eventually utilized genetic genealogy and DNA recovered from a drinking straw to arrest and convict Jerry Burns decades after…
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