How Paperwork Errors Shielded a Killer
This episode examines the unsolved 1985 murder of Carmen “CJ” DeLuca, a young gas station manager who was killed during an overnight shift in Connecticut. Investigators connected the crime to a violent multi-town robbery spree after ballistics linked the murder weapon to a non-fatal shooting that occurred the same morning.
Two primary suspects, William Spikes and Douglas Whitehead, were identified, but the case stalled due to clerical errors, the death of a key witness, and the accidental destruction of crucial DNA evidence. Nearly four decades later, cold case detectives and DeLuca’s former…
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