| Beaten by a Hair | |
| Season 03, Episode 9 | |
| Air Date | November 26, 1998 |
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Beaten by a Hair refers to episode 9 of the Season 3 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on November 26, 1998.
Plot summary[]
In 1992, Laura Houghteling disappeared from her Bethesda, Maryland home and was never seen again. After five days, police found a bloody pillow and pillowcase lying in the woods not far from Laura's house.
Laura's bedroom was then searched using luminol, which reacts with the enzymes in blood. The police now had a prime suspect, her part-time gardener Hadden Clark. Amido black was used to enhance the fingerprints found on the bloody pillowcase, which were matched to Clark. In 1993, Clark pleaded guilty to Houghteling‘s murder.