A cold case from 2003 is finally closed, thanks to DNA pulled from a discarded cigarette. The murder of Tamara Mattson in Washington state went unsolved for nearly two decades—until investigators linked the evidence to Carl Schlobom, already serving a life sentence in Sierra Vista, Arizona for a separate 2005 killing. This episode unpacks how two violent crimes, years and states apart, were connected by a single piece of trash—and why justice didn’t end in a courtroom.

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