Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case

Cracking the Case:She Was Murdered Because The Killer Liked Doing It

In 1999, 19-year-old journalism student, Brook Baker, is murdered in her apartment sending shock waves through the once peaceful Vincennes, Indiana, and setting in motion a desperate police investigation.

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