Cold case investigators develop new theory about teen’s death

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Three decades after a Hyattsville teenager was strangled and her body dumped into a D.C. alley, authorities are looking into the possibility she knew her killer and that her death was the result of consensual sex gone wrong.

Eileen Kelly was a bright, pretty 18-year-old woman when she disappeared on Dec. 13, 1974.

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