On February 24, 1992, Dr. Shahin Hashtroudi, a 45-year-old woman, was finishing up a routine day in Bethesda, Maryland when a stranger looking for a car crossed her path as she was leaving her office. Iranian-born and known in academic circles for her work in psychology and memory research, she was suddenly confronted, shot once in the head, and left mortally wounded as the attacker took her car and disappeared.
What made the killing feel especially cruel to investigators was how quickly
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