The Hot Dog Napkin

The murder of a prostitute in Minneapolis back in 1993 garnered little media attention. And if it wasn’t for the victims mother, the case may have been forgotten altogether. But her insistence that justice be done prompted detectives to look again. DNA left at the scene failed to produce a match. But innovative genealogical investigations threw up a link… and then, a humble ketchup covered napkin provided the smoking gun which proved the identity of a killer. 

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