Closing the Cold Case of Robin Lawrence
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The 1994 murder of Springfield, Virginia, artist Robin Warr Lawrence, 37, would go cold for decades — until DNA left on a washcloth in the victim's home led investigators to a surprising suspect and a chilling confession.
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