
Billings, Montana, November 1973. Cliff and Linda Bernhardt set their dinner table for three and welcomed a guest they trusted. By the next morning, the young couple were dead, and the killer had staged the scene in a way so strange it would puzzle investigators for the next 45 years.Cliff had survived the jungles of Vietnam. He didn't survive dinner at his own table.Melissa covers Week 3 of Killer Connections: a bizarre 1973 cold case, decades of dead ends, and the genetic genealogy breakthrough that finally gave the Bernhardt family a name. Ep. 117 | Killer Connections | Murder Unscripted | August 2026Hosted by Ed Hydock & Melissa Spivey | A Darkcast Network Production Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-unscripted/id1750146409Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AUGh12ei1wk8x7CvcX9qHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MurderUnscriptedPod/membershipmurderunscriptedpod@gmail.com | @murderunscripted
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