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my name's Chris O'Connell and I'm a producer at 48 hours I found the Carolyn Abel story when I
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was finishing up working on the story of Yvonne Baldelli an American woman who was murdered in a small island off the
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coast of Panama she was murdered by her boyfriend at the time Brian premature left Panama and came back to the United
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States and for a while it appeared that he would escape prosecution both in Panama and in the United States that's
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when federal prosecutors in San Diego dusted off a rarely used federal statute called foreign murder of a US national
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and they were able to prosecute Brian perimeter for the murder of Yvonne Baldelli so I was fascinated by the law
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I thought it could have been you know 100 200 years old but when I looked it up it turned out it was just came into
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being in 1994 so I was curious if there was a story behind this law so I began to look through congressional testimony
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and I saw found a sentence or two mentioning a young lady who was brutally murdered in Korea in 1988 and that sort
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of was the genesis of the story