Of course, but nevertheless acted as a real witness to what s happened, an external machine, if you like, which saw what was happening when nobody else did. for 12 long years, the murder of a young hospital worker went unsolved. police had their suspicions but little proof. but an old, used tissue told a story far better than any eyewitness. from the moment she was born, laura wynn was fighting the odds. she weighed 1 pound and 14 ounces, 3 months premature, but she was so determined to live that she made it. and they took her home. and she was blind in one eye from the incubator at that time and she also had paralysis on her right side. ....