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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Cold case heats up! Who killed federal prosecutor Tom Wales?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sixteen years after a federal prosecutor is assassinated, his killer is still free and unknown, but podcast series by two former CNN journalists has put heat under the cold case. Nancy Grace explores the murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Wales with "Somebody Somewhere" podcast host David Payne and producer Jody Gottlieb, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, and Crime Stories co-host Alan Duke.

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0:44.4

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0:50.5

Investigators say they are closer to solving the mystery of who murdered a federal prosecutor

0:54.9

more than 16 years ago.

0:56.6

On a chilly October night in 2001, Tom Wales was home sitting in his basement office when

1:01.8

a gunman shot multiple rounds through the window.

1:04.5

Officials believe there are people who know critical information that could help solve

1:08.5

the case.

1:09.5

Tom Wales was targeted, some say, because of his job, and if that is true, he would be the

1:13.5

first and only US attorney killed in the line of duty.

1:16.9

The killer is still at large, and the case was recently the subject of a five-part podcast.

1:21.9

They say it was the perfect murder, but I'm not buying it.

1:26.1

Investigators aren't buying it either.

1:29.6

Why is a state's prosecutor a US attorney, no less, in the same sentence with murder?

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