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Cold Case - Murder on Red Bluff Road · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: On the afternoon of March the twenty seventh, nineteen seventy nine,
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  Angela Kelly bid farewell to her closest friend at the
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  Montrose apartment, assuring her that she would return shortly. Angela
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  intended to purchase a coke from a nearby convenience store
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  before proceeding to a pawn shop located less than a
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  mile away to sell some jewelry. She had expressed a
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  need for money to buy a bus ticket as she
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  planned to visit her boyfriend in Arkansas the following week. However,
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  Angela never reached the store or the pawn shop. At
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  two thirty a m. The following day, Angela's lifeless body
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  was discovered slumped against the curb of Red Bluff Road
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  in Pasadena, nearly twenty miles from her apartment. A driver
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  returning home from work noticed the teenager and promptly alerted
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  the authorities. Angela's hands were bound behind her back with
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  thick gray electrical wire, and a rope was found tightly
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  secured around her neck. The legs of her blue jeans
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  were stained with dirt, and her sheer white shirt was
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  pushed up around her waist. The medical examiner would later
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  confirm that Angela had been strangled. You are young, and
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  you believe nothing will happen to you at five o'clock
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  on a sunny day, remarked Sandra Beasley, Angela's best friend,
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  as she wiped her eyes with a tissue. This is
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  where it becomes difficult, because I didn't insist on driving her.
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  It's one of those regrets that you carry for the
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  rest of your life. March marks the forty fifth anniversary
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  of Angela Kelly's murder. Forty five years since Sandra and
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  her boyfriend were first interviewed about the last afternoon they
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  shared with Angela. For nearly half a century, law enforcement
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  has pursued over a dozen leads, interviewed witnesses, and conducted
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  multiple tests on the evidence. Angela's case remains unsolved. However,
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  police are now reopening the case file and reviewing the
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  evidence exclusively for ABC thirteen. We are in the process
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  of locating individuals and persons of interest associated with the investigation,
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  individuals who need to be found. Now there's new hope.
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  I want it solved so bad, Sandra said, I have
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  for so long. I feel like I feel like we're
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  that one hair away from solving it