Sparkane, Washington 1978 cold case solved — arrest shocks community

October 5th, 1978. Power company workers discover a teenager's body near Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. A serial killer confesses. Police close the case. Except the serial killer lied. The real killer walked free for 45 years until genetic genealogy exposed the truth.

⚠️ Content Warning: This case involves sexual assault, murder of a minor, and discusses a notorious false confessor.

This investigation reveals how one man's lies let a predator continue hunting, how DNA from a child in Louisiana finally solved a decades-old murder, and how a house fire nearly destroyed justice forever.

⚠️ VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: This video contains details of violent crime and murder.
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