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Earlier this year, in Episode 130, Melissa retold the story of a terrible and terribly unsolved murder out of Fort Worth Texas \\u2013 the tragic 1974 abduction and killing oif 17 year-old Carla Jan Walker.\\xa0\\xa0Carla and her boyfriend had just attended the Valentine\\u2019s dance at Carla\\u2019s high school and were doing what young lovers do in the front seat of the boyfriend\\u2019s car, in the parking lot of a local bowling alley that was popular with teenagers.\\xa0\\xa0Suddenly, the passenger side door opened and an unidentified man grabbed Carla and pistol-whipped her boyfriend into unconsciousness.\\xa0 The last words he heard Carla say before he passed out were \\u201cgo get daddy!\\u201d\\xa0\\xa0Just three days later, Carla\\u2019s body was found in a culvert close to nearby Lake Benbrook.\\xa0 She had been violently sexually assaulted and strangled.\\xa0\\xa0For more than 46 years, the case remained unsolved \\u2013 there were guesses and solid leads, but all of them fell apart.\\xa0\\xa0All that ended this week when a total stranger to Carla\\u2019s life \\u2013 a 77 year-old churchgoer with a spotless record, a family and a secret he was able to keep until he was finally nabbed by DNA technology and an immensely dedicated team of law enforcement professionals who, through several groups of detectives through nearly five decades, never gave up and finally caught their man.