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Police posted a composite sketch throughout northeast philadelphia. >> we had hundreds and hundreds of tips. we worked a lot of hours on it. >> a $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of barbara jean horn's murder. >> but after countless tips and false leads, the case went cold. >> you always want to do the best for her and her family, and resolve it as quickly as possible. but unfortunately we didn't. >> four years would pass before barbara jean's case was reopened by a special investigations unit led by veteran detective marty devlin. >> detective devlin is th...

As a detective, i had a responsibility to once i got the confession, go back to re-interview people, re-examine the evidence and see if i can corroborate it. the detectives in this case just didn't do that. and there was a lot of red flags in there that they just chose to ignore. >> if the crime had occurred in his basement, the basement would have been a mess. it would have been covered in blood. and there is no testimony from anybody who was in the house that there was blood anywhere. >> there were like five people in the house. nobody saw walter with blood, nobody saw anything going on, nob...

Philadelphia prosecutors had failed in their first attempt to convict walter. >> at city hall today, the trial of a man accused of beating a 4-year-old girl to death and stuffing her body inside a tv box. >> he let that poor little baby just lie there and die and then put her out in the trash. if that's not intent to kill, maybe i haven't seen it yet. >> early in the trial, prosecutor joseph casey presented the 16-page confession that walter had given to detective marty devlin. the confession said when barbara jean came to his door looking for her friend, walter took her to the basement and tr...