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Every detective has a case they never forget.

A file that follows them home.

A victim whose face stays in their memory.

A mystery that refuses to stay buried.

For some investigators, it's one case.

For others, it's several.

But tonight's story isn't about one unsolved murder.

It's about one hundred.

One hundred files.

One hundred victims.

One hundred investigations spread across four decades.

Cases that appeared unrelated.

Different states.

Different killers.

Different circumstances.

At least that's what everyone believed.

Until one retired detective discovered a pattern hidden among them.

A pattern no computer found.

No task force noticed.

No agency connected.

Because the connection wasn't in the evidence.

It was in the victims themselves.

And what investigators eventually uncovered would become one of the most unsettling criminal conspiracies ever imagined.

This is Episode 98: The Hundredth File.