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True Crime Podcast Leads to Breakthrough in 1982 Murder Mystery

More than four decades after a Louisiana teenager was raped and murdered, four men have been charged in connection with her killing — a breakthrough investigators credit in part to a true crime podcast that brought new witnesses forward. Roxanne Sharp, 16, was found dead on February 12, 1982, in a wooded area near the St. Tammany Parish Fairgrounds in Covington, Louisiana, about 30 miles north of New Orleans. Investigators determined she had been raped and murdered, with her body left at the scene. The Covington Police Department led the initial investigation. But the cold case stalled for yea...