So tonight we're doing a rewind of our 2020 episode about three cases that were getting new attention from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

In at least one of those cases, DNA technology came through. A few months ago, Hamilton County authorities announced they tied a serial killer to the death of Cheryl Thompson -- a 19-year-old University of Cincinnati student killed in 1978.

Robert Howell was a Cincinnati truck driver who died in a 1985 car accident, so he can't be questioned.

But authorities are pretty firm in their belief that not only did he kill Cheryl, he may well be responsible for the deaths of three other women in Hamilton and Butler counties in that period.

Unfortunately, there isn't DNA to compare from those other cases. But it sounds like the case of Cheryl Thompson is as closed as it can possibly get with a dead suspect.

So here's the episode we did on Cheryl and two other cases the BCI had on their radar - and come back Sunday for a brand new story.

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