This episode of Crime Junkies investigates the 1976 murder of 22-year-old nursing student Melanie Howell in Los Angeles, a case that remained officially unsolved for decades despite being quietly closed by detectives. The story centers on a baffling contradiction: an LAPD cold case d
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