Reyna Marroquín was a young Salvadoran immigrant living in New York when she went missing in 1969. Thirty years later, police investigated a body found in a barrel, leading to the unraveling of the long-unsolved case.

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2. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-clue-in-the-drum/
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