Despite being an out-of-state runaway, Dawn Marie Birnbaum was treated with reverence by the Pennsylvania town where she was found murdered by the side of a road. Since no ID was found with her body, identifying her, much less her murder, should have been impossible. But persistence and several strokes of luck lead Pennsylvania State police and the FBI to her killer, James Robert Cruz Jr., a trucker who frequently traveled between Ohio and Pennsylvania. Authorities noted that as many as 600 other women and been found murdered in a similar fashion in Ohio during the decade before Cruz was arrested. The FBI Files is an American television docudrama series. Each episode describes actual FBI cases which include murder, narcotics, bank robberies, and kidnapping as well as other crimes. These are portrayed through dramatic reenactments and interviews with agents and forensic scientists who worked on the investigations. Content owned and licensed from New Dominion Pictures to Little Dot Studios. For all questions, please contact owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

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