Special Episode: Solving Cold Cases with DNA
Special Episode: Solving Cold Cases with DNA  
Podcast: The Knife: A True Crime Podcast
Rating: Explicit Published On: Tue Oct 21 2025
Description: Elin Lantz Lesser joins us to talk about a cold case that haunted Texas for more than four decades, the 1974 murder of Carla Walker. Recently solved through DNA and genetic genealogy, Elin, host of America’s Crime Lab, walks us through how new science finally brought answers to a case that had gone cold for over 40 years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.