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Debra Cobb

Case from Forestville, MD dated Jan 13, 1993

Victim Details

Debra Cobb

Female

Black / African American

Forestville

MD

1993-01-13

37

Debra

Cobb

07/20/2026

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Debra Cobb, 37, was a woman going about an ordinary workday in Forestville, Maryland—until it ended in violence. Although you provided a different date, multiple published accounts place her death on June 13, 1994, when she was killed during a robbery at her workplace in an office plaza.

Investigators quickly centered on a man who didn’t come from the shadows of some far-off place, but from the same cluster of offices Cobb moved through as part of her routine. The suspect, Alexander ...
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  • Alexander Wayne Watson - Wikipedia
  • Serial killer pleads guilty in cold cases - Washington Examiner
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