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Forensic Files

Material Evidence

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Orange fibers may link a van and a murdered girl's body.

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In 1982, an 11-year-old girl was abducted in broad daylight

0:05.0

from this softball field in Marshall, Bill O'Hioh.

0:10.0

When her badly decomposed body was found one week later,

0:15.0

investigators hoped that the orange triangular-shaped fibers

0:19.0

found at the scene would lead them to the killer.

0:31.0

Marshall, Bill O'Hioh is a small agricultural community

0:36.0

with a population of just under 750.

0:40.0

It's the kind of place where everybody knows everybody else,

0:44.0

where people care about each other.

0:47.0

Crystal Lee Harrison was a care-free 11-year-old girl

0:51.0

growing up in a place most resident thought was exempt from big city crime.

0:57.0

Crystal Harrison was always around the town

1:00.0

when we were at the ballpark playing softball

1:02.0

her brother and I on the local softball team.

1:04.0

Crystal was always near the home plate area there

1:07.0

when we were coming in and off the field.

1:09.0

Always joking around with us.

1:12.0

On July 17, 1982,

1:15.0

Crystal and the friend, the boy who lived nearby,

1:18.0

were collecting aluminum cans at the softball field

1:22.0

which was directly across the street from Crystal's home.

1:25.0

When the boy went to get a drink, a van drove up and stopped next to Crystal.

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