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HOST: Three crimes, three places, one brutal fact: someone walked away clean. [SFX: scary sting] HOST: First, Osaka, Japan, 2003. Seventeen-year-old Tomoko Okazaki was stabbed inside her family’s home while her mother slept downstairs. The killer left blood, footprints, and a weapon, but no name. Unidentified DNA turned the house into a genetic time bomb. [AD_BREAK:1] HOST: Next, Bardstown, Kentucky, 2014. Teacher Kathy Netherland and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Samantha, were found murdered at home. Nothing obvious was stolen. Investigators gathered DNA, chased rumors, and logged hundreds of tips. The motive remains as hidden as the killer. [SFX: loud hit] [AD_BREAK:2] HOST: Finally, Florence, Oregon, 1974. Nineteen-year-old Karen Lee Spencer vanished after a night out. Her skull was found years later in the dunes. In 2024, genealogists identified her remains. But identification isn’t justice. Her killer is still unknown. [SFX: confused murmur] HOST: Three families wait. Answers may be close.