The Murder of Estella Brantley (Connecticut)
About this episode
The episode explores the unresolved murder of Estella Brantley in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and the impact of DNA evidence on her case decades later.
Estella Brantley’s murder should have been urgent from the beginning. She was found in one of Bridgeport’s most visible public places, around witnesses who may have heard her final moments, with evidence that would one day matter more than anyone could have known when it was first collected. But for years, Estella’s case stayed unresolved, folded into a larger city-wide pattern of deadly attacks on women and families left wondering whether anyone was really fighting for them. Then, decades later, science brought the case back to life. But Estella’s family was still left asking whether DNA told the whole story.
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