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Brad, thanks very much for the updates.

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All right, now we're turning to Athens, Georgia.

If you're a college football fan, you probably know it as the home of the Georgia Bulldogs.

But 25 years ago, a crime there shattered the community and remained unsolved for decades.

On the morning of January 19th, 2001, firefighters rushed to the scene of a blaze at an off-campus apartment at the University of Georgia.

They made a horrifying discovery in a locked room.

The body of 23-year-old law student Tara Louise Baker.

She'd been raped, stabbed, and left to die in the fire.

Investigators chased down lead after lead, taking a close look at three people in her life, her boyfriend, an attorney at the law firm where she worked, and a fellow law student.

But the case hit a wall until 2020, when Tara's mother teamed up with a podcaster who began unearthing new leads immediately.

and new theories.

As the web grows, there are some who get caught in the truth, like a poor bug in a spider's web.

In 2023, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took a new look at the case.