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The Denver Body Dump Killer · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 2: This is a warning. Thank you. Denver police have identified
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Speaker 2: a serial killer who murdered five women more than forty
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Speaker 2: years ago. In January twenty twenty two, DNA helpfully solved
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Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty one murders of
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Speaker 2: four women. Joe Michael Irvin, who had taken his life
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Speaker 2: shortly after the last victim, was positively linked after over
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Speaker 2: forty years, But those were not the only unsolved murders
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Speaker 2: of young women in the Mile High City. From the
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Speaker 2: seventies to nineties, as many as twenty seven to thirty
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Speaker 2: eight women, many of whom worked in the sex trade,
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Speaker 2: were being found at a ray of twice a year
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Speaker 2: in a twenty year span, but would not be until
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Speaker 2: two thousand and eight that any of the crimes were linked.
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Speaker 2: Another deceased killer, Billy Edwin Reid, would be linked in
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Speaker 2: another two murders, but could not be proven in any
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Speaker 2: of the others. But it is impossible for these men
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Speaker 2: to have been the only ones. There was at least
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Speaker 2: one or more other killers roaming the streets of Denver
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Speaker 2: for over two or more decades before going silent. Recent
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Speaker 2: advancements have held answer some mysteries, but many more remain,
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Speaker 2: whether two, three, or more serial killers. As of now,
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Speaker 2: these unknown men have been attributed to a single name,
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Speaker 2: the Denver prostitute killer.
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Speaker 3: This goes on in San Francisco for the man known
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Speaker 3: as the Zodiac Killer.
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Speaker 1: There could be a serial killer in Chicago.
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Speaker 2: The Open County child killer killer, Frankfurt slasher.
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Speaker 4: Four children have now been murdered, has killed five, says
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Speaker 4: he's going to kill against his team brutally murdered young women.
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Speaker 3: The pattern is the same, one by one.
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Speaker 4: The death gap started rising.
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Speaker 1: A man in a mask robbed Hyde and stabbed him.
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Speaker 2: Stranger stuffed were lap backs.
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Speaker 5: It is highly unlikely that these women were murdered by
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Speaker 5: separate map.
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Speaker 3: Where will the killer strength next, police, cabass, food or why.
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Speaker 4: That's the question that we'll never known.
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Speaker 6: I don't want to live the rest of my life
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Speaker 6: wondering if this proces is.
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Speaker 2: Going to be caught.
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Speaker 1: I believe that there's someone out there that has knowledge,
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Speaker 1: and he's probably still at large.
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Speaker 2: dozens of unsolved murders, Denver PD would decide upon sixteen
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Speaker 2: women as probable victims to the dead for serial killing.
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Speaker 2: The women were typically known sex workers, usually abducted while
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Speaker 2: hitchhiking or picked up from bars or fast food restaurants.
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Speaker 2: They're beaten and strangled bodies then dumped in rural areas
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Speaker 2: off of Intersea seventy in the metro Denver region. Some
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Speaker 2: were sickly posed with their legs spread apart as wide
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Speaker 2: as possible. Using this data, one can find as many
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Speaker 2: as twenty six others that could fit into that pattern.
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Speaker 2: With a victim list of over fifty, this will be
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Speaker 2: no easy task, and I've decided to split a chronological
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Speaker 2: timeline into separate chapters. First, we'll cover the sixteen official victims,
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Speaker 2: then going over the possible ones. Before we dive into
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Speaker 2: this case, I need to warn you it's going to
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Speaker 2: get complicated. Police believe as many as six serial killers
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Speaker 2: were active in the Denver area during this time period.
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Speaker 2: Further difficulty comes from the fact no complete list of
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Speaker 2: the victims attributed to which killer has been made available,
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Speaker 2: making this a much more difficult task. The investigation narrowed
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Speaker 2: down the list to sixteen victims they believe attributed to
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Speaker 2: the one killer, but there are many others with similarities.
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Speaker 2: It was June nineteenth, nineteen seventy six, when twenty one
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Speaker 2: year old Rebecca Kellison went out for a Friday night
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Speaker 2: at the clubs with her sister and her sister's husband,
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Speaker 2: the weekend before her beauty school final exams. She would
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Speaker 2: spend the night at their home near East Colfax Avenue
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Speaker 2: and Madison Street. The next morning, she left a note
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Speaker 2: she was heading back to her parents' home in Aurora,
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Speaker 2: believed to either take the bus or hitchhike. She would
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Speaker 2: never be seen again. Two years later, in December nineteen
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Speaker 2: seventy seven, a farmer plowing his field and was now
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Speaker 2: the runway at the Denver International Airport would uncover a
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Speaker 2: pile of buried clothing. It would turn out to be Rebeccah's,
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Speaker 2: including her shoes and underwear. Police would state that they
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Speaker 2: would search the field then and before the runway was built.
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Speaker 2: Though Rebecca's parents dispute their thorough It has been speculated
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Speaker 2: that animals may have taken her remains over the half
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Speaker 2: year they were out there. Meanwhile, the second young girl
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Speaker 2: to go missing was fifteen year old Gail Page Johnston
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Speaker 2: on August twenty sixth, nineteen seventy six, when she said
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Speaker 2: she was going to go hitchhike somewhere. It was September
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Speaker 2: fifth that year when her nude, bound and gagged body
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Speaker 2: was found about nine miles west of the airport on
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Speaker 2: the side of these railroad tracks off of Highway Too.
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Speaker 2: She had been shut in the head. It was August eighteenth,
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine, when the partially nude and beaten body
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Speaker 2: of a young woman was found thirty feet from the
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Speaker 2: road near I seventy in gun Club Road, south of
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Speaker 2: the airport area. Her legs had been spread apart. Police
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Speaker 2: would ask the public for help identifying her and received
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Speaker 2: over two hundred tips, including one that a young girl
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Speaker 2: had been seen sitting in a car with a husky
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Speaker 2: blonde man in a Chevy Nova or Vega Denver's Capitol
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Speaker 2: Hill neighborhood. Finally, the body would be identified as sixteen
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Speaker 2: year old Kimberly Jean Grabbin, frequently running away from home
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Speaker 2: due to sexual abuse. Kimberly had been sent to the
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Speaker 2: Lookout Mountain School in March the previous year, but continued
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Speaker 2: to run away, the final time from the Chatfield Recreation
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Speaker 2: Area during the work release program on July twenty third.
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Speaker 2: She frequently hung out in the Capitol Hill area along
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Speaker 2: East Colfax Avenue, last seen on August seventeenth, when vice
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Speaker 2: officers spoke with her. Other witnesses reported a light colored
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Speaker 2: car parked all night near where she was murdered, in
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Speaker 2: which a man and woman were seen inside. A few
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Speaker 2: days later, a similar incident occurred in the nearby Rocky
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Speaker 2: Mountain Nashville Park, but the woman survived. However, police could
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Speaker 2: not prove a link between the man arrested and Kimberly.
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Speaker 2: No photos exist of nineteen year old Cynthia Boyd, a
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Speaker 2: sex worker, last seen at her home at thirty eight
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Speaker 2: thirty Elizabeth Street in Denver on February twenty first, nineteen eighty.
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Speaker 2: Her strangle and nude body would be found lying face
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Speaker 2: down on the East eighty eighth Avenue roadway about in
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Speaker 2: front of the Tower Road landfill. She had ligature marks
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Speaker 2: on her neck, and though initial reports stated she was pregnant,
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Speaker 2: in autopsy would disprove this rumor. While very little information
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Speaker 2: exists on Cynthia and the earlier victims, just one month
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Speaker 2: later another murder would occur that was so savage it
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Speaker 2: is still remembered today. In a similar story, fifteen year
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Speaker 2: old Stephanie Ann Baumann had run away from a group
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Speaker 2: home for troubled children after her parents divorced. There was
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Speaker 2: tension in the family, and Stephanie had voluntarily checked herself
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Speaker 2: into the group home, but decided to flee. For two weeks,
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Speaker 2: she had stayed with friends while working on contacting her
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Speaker 2: family to get back home. It was October twenty eighth,
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty when a driver along County Road one seventy
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Speaker 2: three south of Buyer's, Colorado, spotted the nude body of
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Speaker 2: a female in a ditch alongside the road. A sketch
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Speaker 2: was released that would identify her as Stephanie. The investigation
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Speaker 2: was able to piece together her horrific final hours, four
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Speaker 2: miles down the road, near where an old windmill stood.
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Speaker 2: At the time, someone had forced her to strip nude
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Speaker 2: and sexually assaulted her. Afterwards, she either escaped or forced
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Speaker 2: to walk east down the road for almost three miles.
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Speaker 2: Her footprints were still visible in the morning, allowing the
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Speaker 2: police to see She mostly walked in the ditch on
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Speaker 2: the left side of the road, but occasionally had wandered
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Speaker 2: out onto the road. Though she passed several farmhouses, She
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Speaker 2: would turn left on a Bradbury road and continue on
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Speaker 2: for another mile. At one point, the man in the
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Speaker 2: car following her used the vehicle to pin her up
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Speaker 2: against a barbed wire fence. Finally, Stephanie collapsed in the
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Speaker 2: ditch here, dying of hypothermia. Her killer would spread her
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Speaker 2: legs before leaving around six am, only about thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: before she was discovered. Police would bring the father of
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Speaker 2: another missing girl to the scene to identify her, but
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Speaker 2: he would say it was not his child. Bizarrely, he
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Speaker 2: would say this girl did resemble someone he saw dancing
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Speaker 2: at a garage party with another female and four men
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Speaker 2: the night before on the property her clothes were found on.
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Speaker 2: Others reported seeing a car of four women in the
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Speaker 2: area acting strange, and later only three being in the car.
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Speaker 2: It was January twenty fourth the next year when seventeen
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Speaker 2: year old Antoinette parks would storm away from her boyfriend's
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Speaker 2: home after a fight. Antoinette had been forced to drop
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Speaker 2: out of school her senior year after getting pregnant and
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Speaker 2: begun working at Denny's. She and her boyfriend had frequently
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Speaker 2: argued about keeping the child. The next morning, garbage men
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Speaker 2: would spot what they thought was a mannequin in a
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Speaker 2: field near the house. It turned out to be the
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Speaker 2: body of Antoinette. The seven months pregnant mother had been
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Speaker 2: stabbed twenty three times. A stick had been jammed in
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Speaker 2: side her stomach. The police would believe she had been
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Speaker 2: killed elsewhere and dragged to the field. A cord used
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Speaker 2: to tie a carpet had been used to bind her.
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Speaker 2: An X had been cut on one of her lips,
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Speaker 2: which was theorized as being what is known as a
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Speaker 2: snitches mark, given to those who talk to police about
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Speaker 2: a crime. Naturally, her boyfriend was the prime suspect, and
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Speaker 2: when Antoinette's brother, George Journey, was released from prison two
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Speaker 2: weeks after the murder, he went to that boyfriend's apartment
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Speaker 2: and held him over the balcony railing, threatening to drop
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Speaker 2: him unless he confessed. The man held firm he was innocent.
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Speaker 2: It would not be until twenty twenty two that Antoinette's
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Speaker 2: killer was confirmed to be Joe Michael Irvin, who killed
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Speaker 2: at least three other women, none of whom were suspected
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Speaker 2: as the Denver Stranglers. The next murder seems to be
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Speaker 2: an outlier, but as it was included on the list,
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Speaker 2: detectives may know something that the public does not. Jesse
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Speaker 2: Bennett would be found lying in a snowbank in a
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Speaker 2: field off of sixty fourth in Piccadilly Road on January
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Speaker 2: twenty first, nineteen eighty two. He had been shot to death,
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Speaker 2: weighing only one hundred and twenty six pounds and having
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Speaker 2: long hair, perhaps the killer mistook him for a young woman.
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Speaker 2: It was June eighteenth, nineteen eighty three, when twelve year
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Speaker 2: old Sabrina Judish went missing from a YMCA camp she
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Speaker 2: was at in Commerce City, just west of Rocky Mountain Park.
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Speaker 2: Nicknamed Wienerbog, it was initially believed she was a runway
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Speaker 2: as well, but on May eighteenth, the following year, a
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Speaker 2: skeleton was found in a farm field near East sixty
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Speaker 2: fourth in Powhattan Road. It was clothed only in a
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Speaker 2: YMCA camp T shirt. The same one Sabrina had been wearing.
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Speaker 2: Though a cause of death couldnot be determined, her death
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Speaker 2: was listed as suspicious. Another woman that would be not
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Speaker 2: found for some months was twenty seven year old Lillian Olgwyn,
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Speaker 2: last scene October seventh, nineteen eighty four. Two months later,
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Speaker 2: on December twenty eighth, her body was found in the
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Speaker 2: South Platte River near this bend in Commerce City. It
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Speaker 2: was believed she had been drowned, but could not be confirmed.
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Speaker 2: Another outlier is fifty two year old Helen Fuqui. Either
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Speaker 2: intentionally or coincidentally, Helen went missing on December seventh, nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty four, Pearl Harbor Day. As an Asian woman, Helen
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Speaker 2: would have been aware the high amount of incidents against
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Speaker 2: her nationality on that day when she left to go
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Speaker 2: Christmas card shopping. The next day, her family would find
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Speaker 2: her car three blocks away from the home with a
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Speaker 2: flat tire, near the intersection of York and cor Nardo.
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Speaker 2: Several weeks later, joggers along the Clear Creek Trail, about
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Speaker 2: a mile south of where her car was found, spotted
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Speaker 2: clothing in the water bank and alerted police, who would
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Speaker 2: in turn find the body of Helen stuck near this
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Speaker 2: sand bank, five hundred feet east of York Street, when
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Speaker 2: two other women turned up in the South Platte River
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Speaker 2: a few months later, police would investigate the cases is
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Speaker 2: linked those February eighteenth, nineteen eighty five, when twenty five
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Speaker 2: year old mother of one, Vicki Carpenter went missing after
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Speaker 2: leaving a fashion contest at a local saloon. Herkcock found
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Speaker 2: left in an apartment complex. Then, on February twenty fourth,
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Speaker 2: college student Denise Stavenport would vanish after leaving her job
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Speaker 2: at the Greeley Mall. Her car found in a lot
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Speaker 2: outside in the unc parking lot. On April second, boys
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Speaker 2: fishing and Cherry Creek would find Vicki Carpenter's body. She
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Speaker 2: had been tied down with chains and cinderblocks. On April
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Speaker 2: twenty nine, kayakers found Denise in the South Platte River
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Speaker 2: back outside Denver. On April fifth that year, a farmer
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Speaker 2: pond his field near County Roads twenty five and seventy
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Speaker 2: second Avenue would unearth the partial remains that was still
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Speaker 2: unidentified Caucasian female between fifty and sixty years old. A
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Speaker 2: roll of black electrical tape was found on the grave.
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Speaker 2: It was June fourteenth, nineteen eighty six, when eighteen year
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Speaker 2: old Donnas Sue Wayne left a party in Montabella with
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Speaker 2: three men. Later that night, a woman coming home from
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Speaker 2: her job at Stapleton Airport noticed a car zigzagging in
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Speaker 2: front of her along Piccadilly Road before it finally swerved
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Speaker 2: to a stop. Driving around it, the woman noticed a
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Speaker 2: young girl fighting to a ski with a man with
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Speaker 2: crazy eyes. The airport employee would drive to the nearest
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Speaker 2: home and phone police, but when they arrived, they told
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Speaker 2: her it was likely a domestic dispute and not to worry.
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Speaker 2: It was a month later when a man searching through
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Speaker 2: trash piles near the corner of Piccadilly and thirty eighth
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Speaker 2: would spot a skeleton propped against a tree. Her legs
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Speaker 2: had been spread. Hearing the news, the witness would check
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Speaker 2: with police and help identify Donna. She would also choose
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Speaker 2: a man out of a photo lineup that was the
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Speaker 2: owner of the property. Stephanie Bowman's clothes were found on.
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Speaker 2: Years later, he would be caught in a sting trying
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Speaker 2: to murder his wife, but his DNA would not match
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Speaker 2: that found on the murdered women. Little is known about
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Speaker 2: forty eight year old Marilyn Rohor, who was found dead
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Speaker 2: on the floor of a bar on March fifth, nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty seven, in the vicinity of Lillian Olquin in Antmatte
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Speaker 2: Park's crime scenes. Whether the bar was open or closed,
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Speaker 2: or how she was killed has never been released. On
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Speaker 2: July fifth that year, eighteen year old Carolyn Walker would
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Speaker 2: borrow her boyfriend's car to drive back to her own
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Speaker 2: home after they spent a night at the bars, but
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Speaker 2: the vehicle would break down and was found pushed into
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Speaker 2: the lot near thirteenth Avenue in Colorado Boulevard, possibly with
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Speaker 2: the help of her killer. Police theorized two days later
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Speaker 2: her body would be found in a ditch near Is
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Speaker 2: seventy and Colfax, just across the Toll Road from where
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Speaker 2: Kimberley Grabbin was found After being sexually assaulted. Carolyne was
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Speaker 2: strangled and hit on the head with an unknown object.
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Speaker 2: Her legs had been spread apart. It was the day
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Speaker 2: before Christmas Eve that year when eighteen year old Heidi
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Speaker 2: McGuire would clock out for her third to last day
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Speaker 2: working at what was then the Circle CA convenience store
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Speaker 2: in Welby, north of Denver and just fourteen hundred feet
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Speaker 2: from where Helen's car was found. Three years prior, a
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Speaker 2: customer would ask for a lift home, which Heidi gave him,
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Speaker 2: drinking a soda before leaving that man's house. Five days later,
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Speaker 2: her car would be found in a ditch west of town,
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Speaker 2: But on Valentine's Day, two fox hunters in a field
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Speaker 2: where this subdivision now is would discover the girl's body.
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Speaker 2: She'd been killed by a blow to the head. A
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Speaker 2: task force would formed to look at the two nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty seven murders, along with six others that occurred between
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven and nineteen eighty eight, believed to be
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Speaker 2: the work of one man, whom they referred to as
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Speaker 2: the body dump killer. The task force would identify a
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Speaker 2: man named Vincent Gross for the crime spree over the
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Speaker 2: past two years, but there was a problem with the others.
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Speaker 2: Gross had been imprisoned since nineteen eighty two, meaning he
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Speaker 2: couldn't have committed all of them. The final victims selected
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Speaker 2: when the cases were reopened in twenty eleven is a
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Speaker 2: complete mystery, not appearing in the Colorado Homicide Victims database.
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Speaker 2: Someone named Mary Stewart went missing or was murdered in
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Speaker 2: Adams County in Denver nineteen ninety one. As the decades progressed,
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Speaker 2: so too these murders would be forgotten until two thousand
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Speaker 2: and eight, when one detective would note the similarities and
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Speaker 2: the spread legs victims. Assembling a team of four, they
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Speaker 2: would compile the previous list as possibly attributed to one killer,
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Speaker 2: but at the same time they would note similarities between
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Speaker 2: as many as thirty eight victims between up to six
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Speaker 2: different killers operating at the same time, and in the
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Speaker 2: time since, even more murders have been linked between one another.
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Speaker 2: Just how big is the case of the Denver serial killer.
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Speaker 2: One year before Rebecca Callison went missing, it was April fifteenth,
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five, when eighteen year old Melanie Susan Cooley
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Speaker 2: would disappear while hitchhiking home from Netherland High School. It
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Speaker 2: was May second when two road maintenance workers near the
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Speaker 2: intersection of Twin Spruce and Coal Creek Canyon Roads would
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Speaker 2: find her nude body about one hundred and fifty yards
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Speaker 2: north of the road. A large rock left nearby had
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Speaker 2: been used to bludge in her to death, which was
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Speaker 2: estimated to have occurred about three days after her disappearance.
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Speaker 2: Her hands had been tied behind her with a long
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Speaker 2: yellow nylon cord and a pillowcase was left over her head.
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Speaker 2: When Ted Bundy was arrested in Salt Lake City in
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Speaker 2: October that year, police would question him in Melanie's death,
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Speaker 2: along with four other murders of young women similar to
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Speaker 2: his victims. He would eventually be proven to have committed
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Speaker 2: two of them, but Melanie's has never been conclusively linked.
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Speaker 2: On August twenty sixth, nineteen seventy five, the body of
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Speaker 2: nineteen year old Rebecca Bell was found floating in the
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Speaker 2: South Platte River near the fifteenth Street bridge in Guernevaca Park.
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Speaker 2: Little information exists about Rebecca, who was last seen spending
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Speaker 2: the night out of family members two days prior. Her
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Speaker 2: autopsy revealed she had drowned, but is believed to be
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Speaker 2: a homicide due to suspicious circumstances and other injuries found
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Speaker 2: on the body. It was Christmas Eve nineteen seventy six
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Speaker 2: when twenty two year old Tina Grant's boyfriend reported her
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Speaker 2: missing when he went to pick her up from the
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Speaker 2: club she worked at on East Colfax. Two days later,
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Speaker 2: a driver near where seventh in Elcot and by the
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Speaker 2: South Platt Spot. It's something strange in the dirt near
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Speaker 2: where railroad tracks used to rot. Police would respond to
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Speaker 2: what was then a much more remote area to find
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Speaker 2: the body of Tina Grant. Her death would be ruled
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Speaker 2: as a homicide due to quote significant injuries. Thirty year
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Speaker 2: old Maria Abatello Smith worked at the Airman's Club on
23:52
Speaker 2: Lowry Air Force Base when she went missing on November twentieth,
23:56
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seven. Later, her body would be found in
24:01
Speaker 2: what was then a vacant field behind seven forty one
24:04
Speaker 2: Mariposa Street, less than four thousand feet east of where
24:08
Speaker 2: Tina Grant was left, as well as being along railroad tracks.
24:14
Speaker 2: On June eleventh, nineteen seventy eight, two hikers walking through
24:17
Speaker 2: Reynolds Park southwest of Denver would find the nude body
24:20
Speaker 2: of eighteen year old Jeannette Baka at the bottom of
24:23
Speaker 2: a ten foot embankment on the side of Foxton Road.
24:28
Speaker 2: Someone had hid in the high school student turned sex
24:30
Speaker 2: worker's body there about five to ten days prior. A
24:34
Speaker 2: cause of death could not be determined. The coroner ruled
24:37
Speaker 2: out stabbing, strangulation or shooting. Nine days later. Some of
24:42
Speaker 2: her belongings were found a mile and a half away
24:45
Speaker 2: in a burn pile. Police would interrogate her pimp, a
24:50
Speaker 2: man by the name of Vincent Groves, who could not
24:53
Speaker 2: find any evidence against him. With the benefit of looking back,
25:03
Speaker 2: we now know that Vincent Groves was one of Denver's
25:06
Speaker 2: most prolific serial killers in history, suspected of as many
25:09
Speaker 2: as twenty four murders as the first identified prostitute killer
25:13
Speaker 2: in the city. It was not until after his death
25:17
Speaker 2: the DNA would match Groves to several unsolved murders, of
25:20
Speaker 2: which we will be investigating this chapter.
25:23
Speaker 4: We are also learning new details about four Denver murders
25:26
Speaker 4: unsolved for.
25:27
Speaker 3: Decades, cases the Denver police are now calling closed thanks
25:30
Speaker 3: to DNA evidence. The bodies of three of the victims
25:33
Speaker 3: were found in nineteen seventy nine, the last victim in
25:35
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty eight. Polease now say DNA evidence links all
25:39
Speaker 3: of the crimes to this man, Vincent Groves.
25:41
Speaker 1: Authorities believe at the height of groves killing spree, he
25:45
Speaker 1: was murdering as many as two women per month. A
25:49
Speaker 1: serial killer who tormented families from here in Fort Morgan
25:53
Speaker 1: to Denver and across the state.
25:55
Speaker 2: He killed a lot of girls.
25:58
Speaker 1: Vincent Groves was to life in prison in nineteen ninety
26:02
Speaker 1: for sexually assaulting and strangling Gloria's daughter Juanita Lovado. Denver
26:08
Speaker 1: cold case detective Milas Yearling cracked those cases wide open
26:12
Speaker 1: this week using new DNA technology and good old fashioned
26:16
Speaker 1: police work.
26:17
Speaker 5: It's because of the things he had done before, the
26:20
Speaker 5: chances of randomly selecting a person in the US population
26:23
Speaker 5: that would be a matching DNA profile of Vincent Groves
26:26
Speaker 5: was a one in three point three quadrillion.
26:33
Speaker 2: As the only African American student in the Denver suburb
26:36
Speaker 2: of Wheat Ridge at that time, Vince was a popular student.
26:40
Speaker 2: He was the all star of the varsity basketball team.
26:42
Speaker 2: He was in the running for prime King, but things
26:46
Speaker 2: change when he left for college out of state. Vince
26:50
Speaker 2: quit basketball, miss class had eventually dropped down, moving backcomb
26:54
Speaker 2: and getting a job as an electrician by the late seventies.
26:58
Speaker 2: During this time, Grows began to frequent Denver's red light
27:01
Speaker 2: district on East Colfax, becoming a familiar face. He began
27:06
Speaker 2: dealing drugs on the side, meeting and eventually murdering Jeanette Bacca.
27:13
Speaker 2: On March twenty sixth, nineteen seventy nine, police checking up
27:16
Speaker 2: on a welfare call entered the apartment, formerly located at
27:20
Speaker 2: the corner of Garfield and Second in Denver's Cherry Creek
27:23
Speaker 2: neighborhood to find twenty five year old Emma Jennifoor strangled
27:26
Speaker 2: in the bathtub. On July fourth, nineteen seventy nine, police
27:32
Speaker 2: found the body of twenty three year old Joyce Raymie
27:35
Speaker 2: and was then a vacant lot in the southeast side
27:37
Speaker 2: of Havana in fifty sixth Avenue, after sexually assaulting her.
27:43
Speaker 2: Her killer had strangled her and left the body post
27:45
Speaker 2: with her hands above her head and her legs spread.
27:51
Speaker 2: On August twenty fourth that year, twenty one year old
27:54
Speaker 2: Norma Jean Halford's car would be found left on the
27:57
Speaker 2: side of the road here six point four, four miles
28:00
Speaker 2: off the road from Georgetown, Colorado. She would last be
28:04
Speaker 2: seen in that town two days later. Her body has
28:08
Speaker 2: never been found. At the time, Norma was living with
28:11
Speaker 2: Vincent Groves. On November third, twenty year old Peggy Cuff
28:22
Speaker 2: was found in this alley behind South Ogden Street. The
28:26
Speaker 2: class president of her high school back in Philadelphia, she
28:29
Speaker 2: had moved to Denver after graduation to work at a bank.
28:35
Speaker 2: Many of these women were known to have been addicted
28:37
Speaker 2: to drugs, which by now Vincent had also been using
28:40
Speaker 2: his own supply and was developing a violent temper. He
28:45
Speaker 2: would meet Jeannette Hill during this time, quitting his job
28:48
Speaker 2: as an electrician and becoming a janitor while still dealing drugs.
28:53
Speaker 2: The two would get married in March nineteen eighty one,
28:56
Speaker 2: but dude to his odd work schedule, Vincent was not
28:58
Speaker 2: often around. One month after the marriage, twenty five year
29:03
Speaker 2: old while Nita Mitchell would be found dead inside the
29:05
Speaker 2: Cottonwood Motel on East Colfax, a rag had been stuffed
29:09
Speaker 2: into her mouth on July second. Seventeen year old Pamela
29:15
Speaker 2: Morgan would also be found in an Aurora mortel. On
29:20
Speaker 2: August fourteenth, Vince would leave on a fishing trip with
29:23
Speaker 2: two friends and one of their daughters, seventeen year old
29:27
Speaker 2: Tammy Woodron. The next day, he returned home to his
29:31
Speaker 2: parents' house, where he still lived. Distraught, he confessed to
29:35
Speaker 2: his wife that he and Tammy had gotten to Boulder
29:38
Speaker 2: to score some coke and she overdosed, not sure what
29:41
Speaker 2: to do, he put her body in the camper he
29:43
Speaker 2: was telling. Upon her urging, Vince would turn himself in,
29:47
Speaker 2: where police quickly frowned out that Tammy had been sexually assaulted, beaten,
29:52
Speaker 2: and strangled. They didn't know it. Then the police had
29:58
Speaker 2: caught one serial killer. The problem was that bodies didn't
30:02
Speaker 2: stop turning up in Denver. To keep things straight, we'll
30:08
Speaker 2: stay on with those confirmed and suspected by Groves. Quby
30:15
Speaker 2: sentenced to twelve years jail time during the newly created
30:18
Speaker 2: Real Concerned CON's Club, a group who spoke to children
30:21
Speaker 2: about how crime doesn't pay. After five years, Vincent Groves
30:26
Speaker 2: would be released and was back in Denver in nineteen
30:29
Speaker 2: eighty seven. One month later, he picked up Sheila Washington
30:42
Speaker 2: and the pair went to room eight of the l
30:44
Speaker 2: Patio Motel on colfax. After giving her some crack cocaine,
30:49
Speaker 2: he tried strangling her, saved only when a neighbor kicked
30:53
Speaker 2: the door down, not knowing his name. It would be
30:57
Speaker 2: a year before Sheila spotted Grows again and reported him
31:00
Speaker 2: to police. In the meantime, he was left free to kill.
31:10
Speaker 2: It was April nineteen eighty seven and one thirty one
31:12
Speaker 2: year old sex worker Ronda Fisher's nude and strangled body
31:15
Speaker 2: was found the side of culvert near Highway one oh five,
31:19
Speaker 2: about halfway between Denver and Colorado Springs. Rounda's life had
31:26
Speaker 2: not been easy. She was divorced, her child, put up
31:29
Speaker 2: her adoption, and had a criminal record when she was
31:32
Speaker 2: last seen walking East Colfax the night before she was
31:35
Speaker 2: found from a different walk of life. Nineteen year old
31:44
Speaker 2: Zabra Mason was an honor student with a job interview
31:47
Speaker 2: when the married mother of two's body was found slumped
31:49
Speaker 2: in her car in a field off of West Colfax
31:52
Speaker 2: Avenue in Kipling Street in Lakewood on September seventeenth that year.
32:01
Speaker 2: On January twenty ninth, nineteen eighty eight, twenty three year
32:05
Speaker 2: old Fay Johnson's nude body was found dumped in the
32:08
Speaker 2: ditch near East sixth Avenue and Manila Road, east of
32:11
Speaker 2: the city. She was last seen getting into a man's
32:16
Speaker 2: car along Colfax Avenue before being strangled further east. On
32:22
Speaker 2: April twenty ninth, nineteen year old Janita Levado's body was
32:25
Speaker 2: found dumped in a field near County Road thirty six
32:28
Speaker 2: and East thirty Second Avenue north of Denver, near Fort Lupton.
32:39
Speaker 2: Twenty two year old Robin Nelson's body was dumped in
32:41
Speaker 2: a field on June twelfth, A month later. It would
32:45
Speaker 2: be the first victim we know anything about. Twenty five
32:49
Speaker 2: year old Diane Mansarah lived a transient lifestyle, unemployed, regularly
32:53
Speaker 2: found drinking around Denver. She was last seen walking Colfax
32:57
Speaker 2: Avenue around two am the morning of July twenty fifth.
33:02
Speaker 2: Four hours later, a truck driver on I twenty five
33:05
Speaker 2: south of Denver would spot her body near a culvert
33:08
Speaker 2: by Exit one P ninety to Surrey Ridge, an off
33:11
Speaker 2: ramp that no longer exists today. Her legs had been
33:15
Speaker 2: pulled up and her face twisted down to the ground.
33:18
Speaker 2: She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. On August twelfth,
33:24
Speaker 2: thirty five year old Carolyn Buchanan was found beneath a
33:27
Speaker 2: bridge on Tower Road east of Denver. Just two days later,
33:31
Speaker 2: police would get a break. It was five thirty am
33:37
Speaker 2: when a man loading his car in preparation for a
33:40
Speaker 2: triathlon would hear a car pull into the alley behind
33:42
Speaker 2: his garage. Curious, he would look over the fence only
33:47
Speaker 2: to see a tall African American man pulling corpse from
33:50
Speaker 2: his trunk. The man quietly fled back into his home
33:53
Speaker 2: and phoned police, who discovered the body of thirty five
33:56
Speaker 2: year old sex worker Pamela Montgomery strangled in the air.
34:01
Speaker 2: Though he couldn't idea the man, he was able to stay.
34:04
Speaker 2: It was the same car that Vincent Groves drove and
34:07
Speaker 2: made the same rattling engine noise. Posing as county workers
34:14
Speaker 2: cleaning the gutters, police would stake out the Gross family
34:17
Speaker 2: home at twelve five six' Five west Thirty First avenue In.
34:20
Speaker 2: Wheatridge neighbors came out to thank, them saying they had
34:26
Speaker 2: never seen anyone cleaning the street, before but When vincent
34:30
Speaker 2: his brother stepped out of the, house those workers rushed
34:32
Speaker 2: into action and took him into. Custody police were able
34:42
Speaker 2: to circumstantially link him to eight, murders Including groves being
34:46
Speaker 2: the last person seen With Jeanette, Baka Fay johnson And Zabra,
34:50
Speaker 2: mason but only the murders Of elevado And mansa HAD
34:54
Speaker 2: dna that conclusively Lamed. Groves he would get a life
34:59
Speaker 2: sent out for these, two but he wouldn't serve very.
35:02
Speaker 2: Long On, Halloween, day nineteen ninety, Six vinza girls would
35:07
Speaker 2: die from HEPATITIS cea in liver, failure refusing a deathbed
35:12
Speaker 2: confession of any further. Murders it would not be until
35:16
Speaker 2: twenty twelve THE dna approved this serial killer had more.
35:20
Speaker 1: Victims GROVES dna was not in a national, database but
35:24
Speaker 1: Rather Lakewood police had it on file from a nineteen
35:28
Speaker 1: eighty one, slaying and that's what ultimately helped police put
35:32
Speaker 1: all of these cases. Together this latest link now gives
35:36
Speaker 1: even more families.
35:38
Speaker 5: Closure they didn't realize that anyone, cared that anyone was still.
35:42
Speaker 5: Looking and those MOTHERS i know feel LIKE i.
35:45
Speaker 2: Do you still always.
35:47
Speaker 3: Hurt The god bless.
35:48
Speaker 1: Them these are the new. Cases groves is now linked
35:52
Speaker 1: to three nineteen seventy nine, slags including twenty three year
35:56
Speaker 1: Old Joyce, raimi twenty year Old Peggy, cuff and twenty
36:00
Speaker 1: five year Old Emma. Jennifore, also witness accounts AND dna
36:04
Speaker 1: now Ty groves to the nineteen eighty eight murder of
36:07
Speaker 1: thirty five year Old Pamela.
36:09
Speaker 2: Montgomery other Murders gross has been suspected of Including Melanie,
36:14
Speaker 2: Cooley Sabrina, Judash Cynthia. Voyd And Carolyn. Walker estamates say
36:20
Speaker 2: he could have killed as many as twenty four, women
36:24
Speaker 2: but there are others he couldn't have. Committed even When
36:28
Speaker 2: vincent was behind bars in the eighties and, nineties someone
36:31
Speaker 2: was still murdering sex workers In. Denver, first we remind
36:41
Speaker 2: back To september nineteen seventy. Nine Norma Jean halfred's car
36:45
Speaker 2: had been found one month, prior but On september, first
36:48
Speaker 2: the same Day Hurricane david would hit The Dominican, REPUBLIC
36:52
Speaker 2: a family enjoying a sunny picnic At Pierce park And,
36:54
Speaker 2: arvada northwest Of, denver would walk down to the corner
36:58
Speaker 2: of eighty second in seventy two to pick cat. Tails,
37:03
Speaker 2: there down the, embankment they discovered the nude and beaten
37:06
Speaker 2: body of seventeen year Old Linda, hutchings last seen three
37:12
Speaker 2: weeks earlier getting pizza with her boyfriend and their friend.
37:15
Speaker 2: Group she supposedly left to HITCHHIKOMB a few years older Than,
37:21
Speaker 2: linda the boyfriend was known to have a temper and
37:24
Speaker 2: would drive over to The hutchings home the next morning
37:26
Speaker 2: because he had a bad. FEELING a few days, later
37:32
Speaker 2: while police were searching for missing. Clothes one of the
37:35
Speaker 2: helicopters they were using would crash into a, wireline but
37:38
Speaker 2: both men inside would escaped with only minor. Injuries in
37:44
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty, four serial Killer Henry Lee lucas would be
37:47
Speaker 2: charged With linda's murder as part of six hundred victims.
37:50
Speaker 2: Nationwide he confessed to committing but would later. Recamp On
37:58
Speaker 2: october twenty, third nineteen seventy, nine nineteen year old sex
38:01
Speaker 2: Worker Sheila burrow would be last. Seen it was now
38:04
Speaker 2: The Orlando apartments On East, colfax just a block from
38:08
Speaker 2: Where Vincent groves attempted to Strangle Sheila washington nine years.
38:12
Speaker 2: Later known As cricket on The, streets she was said
38:17
Speaker 2: to have been in hiding after owing a large amount
38:19
Speaker 2: of money to A Kansas city drug, dealer and over
38:22
Speaker 2: one hundred persons of interest were questioned in her. Death
38:27
Speaker 2: two days after going, missing her body was found off
38:30
Speaker 2: Of Frontage road And County road fifty one up In,
38:33
Speaker 2: keenesburg making her the furthest dump site thus. Far though
38:38
Speaker 2: she was found nude and had been beaten in the,
38:40
Speaker 2: head her death was listed as an. Overdose december eighteenth
38:48
Speaker 2: would see the final murder of that bloody. Year after
38:52
Speaker 2: going to the local bars with friends to watch The
38:54
Speaker 2: Denver broncos, game thirty four year Old Roxanne valverde would
38:58
Speaker 2: be found lying dead in the road Near east forty
39:01
Speaker 2: six And Glencoe. Streets she had been. Strangled our story
39:09
Speaker 2: next picks up in nineteen eighty. One by Now Cynthia,
39:14
Speaker 2: Boyd Stephanie, bauman And Antoinette parks had been, killed the
39:18
Speaker 2: same month That Jannita mitchell would be, killed twenty nine
39:21
Speaker 2: year old child care Worker Lois jenkins would be found
39:24
Speaker 2: in her car near the now gone intersection Of smith And,
39:28
Speaker 2: fairfax about two thousand feet south from Where Roxanne valverde
39:32
Speaker 2: had been strangled two years. Prior she was last seen
39:37
Speaker 2: at a nightclub. Nearby the previous. Night someone had used
39:41
Speaker 2: a belt to strangle. Her fingerprints left on it were
39:44
Speaker 2: too smudged to be. Usable, next two, weeks After Vincent
39:49
Speaker 2: groves had turned himself, in On august, thirtieth the body
39:52
Speaker 2: of eighteen year Old Jeanine moore was found In Genesee.
39:55
Speaker 4: Park Jeannie Marie moore was a pretty girl who liked
39:58
Speaker 4: to write. Poetry she would have been nineteen next. Month
40:02
Speaker 4: she lived here with her mom and two. Sisters Last,
40:05
Speaker 4: tuesday about four blocks from her, home she was seen
40:07
Speaker 4: getting into a car that had stopped to pick her
40:09
Speaker 4: up near The harlem exit ON i. Seventy The teneco
40:13
Speaker 4: station near thirteenth In, wadsworth where she had worked for
40:15
Speaker 4: a couple, months was her, destination But jeanie never got
40:18
Speaker 4: to work Last. Tuesday her whereabouts were unknown until just yesterday,
40:22
Speaker 4: afternoon when picnickers discovered her body here In Genesee, park
40:26
Speaker 4: seventeen and a half miles from. Home her grief stricken
40:29
Speaker 4: mother today spoke with us next to the Zinias jeanie
40:32
Speaker 4: had planted in front of the.
40:33
Speaker 6: House in, fact her boss gave her a ten speed
40:36
Speaker 6: ride back and forth to, work but she she didn't take.
40:40
Speaker 6: It she wouldn't use it was faster getting their. Hitching
40:45
Speaker 6: she's dead because of.
40:46
Speaker 7: It.
40:46
Speaker 4: Now Missus moore hopes the tragic murder of her daughter
40:50
Speaker 4: will be a lesson to other. Hitchhikers stay out of.
40:53
Speaker 6: Them you just don't. Know my beautiful daughters did because
41:01
Speaker 6: of some. Cut Please teogable every time you think about
41:11
Speaker 6: get into a. Car Thinking genie.
41:17
Speaker 2: After being sexually, assaulted she had died from head. Trauma,
41:23
Speaker 2: chronologically the next merge to occur would Be Jesse, Bennett Sabrina,
41:27
Speaker 2: Judish Lilian, Olgwn Helen Fuke why and The april nineteen
41:31
Speaker 2: eighty Five Jane doe before high Schooler Tracy Lynn wooden
41:35
Speaker 2: would be last seen at The Denver General hospital On august,
41:38
Speaker 2: eleventh nineteen eighty, five after suffering some minor cuts in
41:42
Speaker 2: a motorcycle. Accident While tracy had run away in the
41:47
Speaker 2: past and had been a partier this, time only an
41:50
Speaker 2: hour and a half, later her strangle body would be
41:52
Speaker 2: found in well at that time was an alleyway behind
41:55
Speaker 2: The Fox Supply company in Downtown denver Now Apartments Course.
42:00
Speaker 2: Field she been left with her braw pulled up to
42:04
Speaker 2: expose her. Breasts On november twenty fourth that, year a
42:11
Speaker 2: driver Along highway two eighty five In conifer would spot
42:14
Speaker 2: the nude body Of Leonora cortes on the side of
42:17
Speaker 2: the road near the intersection with Light. Lane her family
42:21
Speaker 2: would state that twenty one year old had no home
42:23
Speaker 2: and lived a transient. Lifestyle it Was september, seventeenth nineteen eighty,
42:32
Speaker 2: six when two workers loading gravel from this area near
42:35
Speaker 2: The corps distribution center would follow a smell into some
42:38
Speaker 2: brush to find the decaying body Of julia De. Temple
42:43
Speaker 2: the twenty six year old had last been seen one month,
42:46
Speaker 2: earlier when she hitchhike to a local bar and then
42:48
Speaker 2: went To Red Rocks, park as confirmed by a ticket
42:52
Speaker 2: found in her. POCKET a cause of death has not been,
42:56
Speaker 2: released but police do consider it a. Homicide On march twenty,
43:03
Speaker 2: fourth nineteen eighty, eight a group of hikers just west
43:06
Speaker 2: of the entrance to Beaver Brook trail On Lookout mountain
43:09
Speaker 2: And Golden what's about the body of a woman about
43:12
Speaker 2: fifteen feet down the side of this. Hill she was
43:18
Speaker 2: lying headfirst and had been there and estimated two months
43:21
Speaker 2: a single fingerprint being able to be. Lifted it would
43:32
Speaker 2: not be until two thousand and five that she would
43:35
Speaker 2: be identified as thirty three Old Lisa, kelly a sex
43:39
Speaker 2: worker From, denver last seen by a family Member september
43:42
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty. Seven it Was april twenty, ninth nineteen eighty,
43:49
Speaker 2: eight when nineteen year Old Shannon McLean and a friend
43:53
Speaker 2: or hitchhiking In South denver when they were picked up
43:55
Speaker 2: by a Chubby caucasian. Male the friend would be dropped
44:01
Speaker 2: off here On East yale And University, hills but she
44:04
Speaker 2: hanon stayed in the. Car three months, later Near homestead
44:12
Speaker 2: and Where Leonora cortez was, dumped her body would be
44:15
Speaker 2: found lying off of two to eighty five And Surrey
44:17
Speaker 2: road with no visible signs of. Trauma On november twenty,
44:24
Speaker 2: fifth nineteen eighty, eight twenty one year Old Jessica aredondo
44:28
Speaker 2: was planning to meet up with her boyfriend and friends
44:31
Speaker 2: in her new Red mustang she had purchased with her own.
44:33
Speaker 2: Money her car would be found with his flashers on
44:37
Speaker 2: at the corner Of seventh And. JACKSON a witness would
44:41
Speaker 2: state it appeared she had been being chased when she
44:43
Speaker 2: got into a fender bender and three men abducted. Her
44:51
Speaker 2: the next, day the group having a snowball fight would
44:53
Speaker 2: find her body thirty feet From highway thirty six near
44:57
Speaker 2: The Lion's gulch trailhead outside Of Estes, park about an
45:01
Speaker 2: hour and a half north from her. Vehicle her head
45:08
Speaker 2: had been so badly beaten fingerprints were needed to identify,
45:12
Speaker 2: her and she appeared to either have jumped or been
45:14
Speaker 2: dumped from a moving. Vehicle in nineteen ninety, four a
45:21
Speaker 2: co worker Of jessica's Named Robert harlan would be arrested
45:25
Speaker 2: for the similar kidnapping and murder Of Rhonda, maloney which
45:28
Speaker 2: he received a life sentence. For she become a suspect
45:33
Speaker 2: In jessica's, murder but denied involvement and was not prosecuted
45:37
Speaker 2: for her murder for lack of. Evidence another murder that
45:42
Speaker 2: had a suspect identified but remains open is that Of
45:45
Speaker 2: sharon K. Stone the forty six year old had just
45:49
Speaker 2: come To denver two months prior to work for a
45:52
Speaker 2: temp agency when she was last seen On Colfax avenue
45:59
Speaker 2: In july. NINETEEN a man looking for his hubcap down
46:02
Speaker 2: the embankment of this road outside the city Of golden
46:05
Speaker 2: would find her badly decomposed. Body cause of death could
46:09
Speaker 2: not be. Determined twenty eight year old sex Worker Linell
46:15
Speaker 2: williams was last Seen october twelfth that year by her
46:18
Speaker 2: mother An. Aurora two days, later a pair Of Colorado
46:23
Speaker 2: school Of mine students came To Clear creek Near tunnel
46:27
Speaker 2: one ON Us highway, six just north Of Lookout. Mountain
46:32
Speaker 2: the pair had intended to pan for, gold but just
46:35
Speaker 2: off the dirt service, road they would find the body of, linel,
46:40
Speaker 2: pennyhose a sock, belt and an extension court had all
46:44
Speaker 2: been wrapped around her neck to strangle her to. Death
46:52
Speaker 2: On april, fourteenth nineteen, ninety a couple walking their dog
46:56
Speaker 2: On North Table mountain would come to this area near
46:59
Speaker 2: the bay and fifty yards north Of highway fifty eight
47:03
Speaker 2: when they found the unclothed body of a fifteen year
47:06
Speaker 2: old girl by a clump of. Trees she would be
47:12
Speaker 2: identified As Jessica caudill From, georgia who had run away
47:16
Speaker 2: from her Home march. Thirteenth described as a free, Spirit
47:21
Speaker 2: jessica regularly left two hitch rides as far As california
47:24
Speaker 2: in the. Past police circulated photos of the girl who
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Speaker 2: wanted to be a rock, star and someone reported they
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Speaker 2: believed they spotted her at this truck, stop which at
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Speaker 2: that time was A union seventy six in Wheat, ridge
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Speaker 2: just six miles down the road from where she was.
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Speaker 2: Found jessica would be the last body found In. Golden
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Speaker 2: the next possible victim would be found in a field
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Speaker 2: by the landfill In, Eerie, colorado just north Of. Denver
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Speaker 2: Valerie meeks was a thirty six year old mother and
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Speaker 2: sex worker On Colfex avenue when she was reported missing
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Speaker 2: On july, third nineteen ninety. One her naked body would
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Speaker 2: be found On july seventeenth along this service road behind
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Speaker 2: The Denver Regional. Landfill the plastic bag used to suffocate
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Speaker 2: her had been left wrapped around her. Head Leah lobmeyer
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Speaker 2: was a thirty year old nurse who worked nights as
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Speaker 2: a massuse and call, girl last seen in a home
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Speaker 2: in Wheat ridge at two. Am three and a half
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Speaker 2: hours later and four miles, away police responding to a
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Speaker 2: car crash at the intersection Of west forty second And
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Speaker 2: julian would find her. Vehicle the driver had, fled leaving
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Speaker 2: the body Of leah upside down in the passenger. Seat
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Speaker 2: her shirt was off and her bra had been pulled.
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Speaker 2: Up she had been. Strangled it Was november, fifteenth nineteen ninety,
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Speaker 2: two when hunters found the body Of Tammy cheeks with
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Speaker 2: a plastic bag over her head in the concrete irrigation
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Speaker 2: ditch Near County roads twenty fifty. One the twenty five
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Speaker 2: year old mother of two was also a known sex
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Speaker 2: worker and drug user who worked Along Colfax. Avenue due to,
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Speaker 2: decomposition her death could not be. Determined things would go
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Speaker 2: silent for three. Years denver's population would boom over the,
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Speaker 2: nineties expanding the city's urban spra to many once rural
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Speaker 2: areas where killers had dumped their. Bodies while much was
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Speaker 2: different from the, seventies the next murder would eerily recall
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Speaker 2: one two decades. Earlier it Was august, ninth nineteen ninety,
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Speaker 2: five when twenty one year Old Jennifer larsons went to
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Speaker 2: a friend's house to party In, aurora not leaving until
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Speaker 2: the next. Morning one week, later her car would be
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Speaker 2: found with the keys left inside it at an apartment
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Speaker 2: complex a mile from her. Apartment While jenny was described
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Speaker 2: as a free, spirit foul play was suspected.
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Speaker 1: In the.
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Speaker 2: Meantime on the night Of august, twelfth thirty six year
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Speaker 2: Old Veronica lucero would accept arrived from a man when
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Speaker 2: leaving the top of the Town bar In Villa, park
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Speaker 2: neighborhood of Southwest. Denver back in nineteen eighty, four she
50:33
Speaker 2: was a bank teller while attending, college but in the
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Speaker 2: following decade little is known About. Veronica her body would
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Speaker 2: be found lying in the street at what was then
50:43
Speaker 2: the intersection Of Hazel court And west seventh dead from unspecified.
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Speaker 2: Homicide two months would go by when a sunflower farmer
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Speaker 2: would discover a skeleton just ten feet past his barbed
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Speaker 2: wire fence in this, field half a mile north Of Quincy,
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Speaker 2: avenue out by the. Airport dentil records would prove it
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Speaker 2: Was Jennifer. Larson over the two, months animals and bugs
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Speaker 2: had picked at her as she, mummified leaving just forty
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Speaker 2: pounds of the one hundred and twenty five pound girl.
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Speaker 2: Left her clothes were, missing and though a cod was not,
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Speaker 2: determined the medical examiner listed. HOMICIDE a few days, Later
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Speaker 2: jenny's friends decided to pay a visit to the field
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Speaker 2: one late. Night when they, arrived they spotted a lone
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Speaker 2: white man sitting in a truck along the. Road speaking with,
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Speaker 2: him he pointed them to the exact area where the
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Speaker 2: body was. Found whoever this man, was police have stated
51:44
Speaker 2: they have an interest in. Him it would not preclude
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Speaker 2: him from other unsolved, murders chiefly that Of Stephanie, bauman
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Speaker 2: as the windmill where she was assaulted was less than
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Speaker 2: twenty five hundred feet from Where jenny was. Dumped another
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Speaker 2: suspect was a man from that part who had a
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Speaker 2: history of violence towards, women but as yet no one
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Speaker 2: has been arrested in her. Murder With Vincent grove's death
52:10
Speaker 2: and The New, millennium the cases of The denver stranglers grew.
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Speaker 2: Cold the first break in the case would come a
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Speaker 2: decade after the last, murder WHEN dna evidence found On
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Speaker 2: Lonell williams And Lisa kelly would match that Of Billy Edwin,
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Speaker 2: reid previously convicted of sexual. Assault detectives would run over
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Speaker 2: other cases against, him including that Of Queena, sanders who
52:35
Speaker 2: was found On Valentine's day nineteen eighty, eight but they
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Speaker 2: did not have enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable.
52:42
Speaker 2: Doubt the year of his life, sentence the Cold Case
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Speaker 2: Task force would open and look at the first sixteen,
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Speaker 2: women Linking Vincent groves to the four additional. Murders in twenty,
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Speaker 2: TWELVE dna would also confirm two of the women we
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Speaker 2: previously covered as possible victims to two, separate now deceased. Killers,
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Speaker 2: First Daniel filovitre would be proven as the killer Of
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Speaker 2: Tracy wooden in nineteen eighty. Five he be sent to
53:15
Speaker 2: prison months later for different sexual, assault where he remained
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Speaker 2: until his death in two thousand and. Six in twenty,
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Speaker 2: Nineteen Donald perea was proven to be the killer Of
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Speaker 2: Genie moore in nineteen eighty, one a crime he committed
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Speaker 2: while out on bail for another sexual assault. Case he
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Speaker 2: would die in two those. Twelve it was a murder
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Speaker 2: case that had gone, cold but nearly forty years.
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Speaker 4: Later investigators say they now know who Killed Genie.
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Speaker 2: Moore today investigators announced they have Identified Donald perea as her.
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Speaker 8: Killer it's really incredible and the individual they've linked to the,
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Speaker 8: crime while he's no longer, alive they are confident. Here they,
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Speaker 8: say in, fact he is three point three trillion times
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Speaker 8: more likely to have committed that crime than anybody. Else
54:03
Speaker 8: and while it's too soon to call this, closure for her,
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Speaker 8: sisters they say they have been thinking of her and
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Speaker 8: keeping her memory alive every single.
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Speaker 2: Day if either man had any other, crimes they took
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Speaker 2: them to their. Graves investigators concluded That Billy reid And
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Speaker 2: Vincent groves were likely responsible for the majority of the
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Speaker 2: cases we have, covered while at the same time realizing
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Speaker 2: there are many neither could have. Committed over the past,
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Speaker 2: Decade denver has utilized grants to try RETRIEVING dna from
54:44
Speaker 2: these cold, cases but unfortunately time has been unkind to
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Speaker 2: much of the, evidence while future technology will no doubt
54:53
Speaker 2: help answer some of these. Questions with every year that
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Speaker 2: passes the chance of apprehending a living suspect and getting
55:00
Speaker 2: answers dwindows in the case The denver, stranglers.
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Speaker 7: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah now ya now now
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Speaker 7: now yaw yaw
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