Cobb County DA
Nine-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall was walking home from a laundromat a half-block from her Georgia home in 1972 when she was snatched off the street, raped, and strangled to death.
The freckle-faced third-grader’s body was found 16 days later—but the question of who killed her remained a mystery for more than half a century.
“Debbie Lynn’s parents died without knowing who killed their little girl,” Cobb County District Attorney Flynn Broady said at a news conference.