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How chewing gum helped crack a 42-year-old murder case

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a crime & justice story. CBS News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 16 Oct 2026, 14:06 UTC. The headline in use is “How chewing gum helped crack a 42-year-old murder case”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.

What we know

A detective devised an unusual plan to catch a killer: using chewing gum to secretly collect his DNA. Peter Van Sant reports on the undercover operation that helped solve the cold case murder on the season premiere of "48 Hours."

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