In 1964 a 12-year-old girl named Mary Theresa Simpson was murdered in Elmira, New York. The man who killed her died in 2004 at 72 years old — believing he had gotten away with it.
For 61 years — he had.
Until a DNA sample invisible to the naked eye — and an FBI agent who ran through a frozen warehouse in Memphis to save it — finally gave her sister Linda the name she had been waiting 62 years to hear.
1 in 320,000,000,000.
Full 30-minute documentary on The Dark Stories YouTube channel. Search: The Dark Stories Mary Theresa Simpson
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