The Murder of Dorothy Donovan

Charles Holden was nervous when he saw the stranger lurking outside of his home on the evening on June 22, 1991. Fearing for not only his safety, but the safety of his mother- 70-year-old Dororthy Donovan, he rushed to the nearest payphone to call the police.

When an officer arrived at the residence, she accompanied Charles to check on Dorothy, who had lived in a farmhouse behind Charle's trailer.

It was there that the two would find Charles's elderly mother stabbed to death.

Charles would quickly tell police he knew who had murdered Dorothy- a man he had given a ride to earlier that evening- who had quickly gotten violent with him-, but police were not buying Charle's outlandish story of a nightmare hitchhiker and suspected Charles as their killer.

It would be another 15 years before DNA collected at the scene of the crime would finally reveal the shocking truth of who killed Dorothy Donovan.

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