In 2003, an LAPD cold case detective digging through old case files finds a piece of forgotten evidence that belongs to an unidentified woman found murdered off Mulholland Drive in 1969. As he searches for her identity, he uncovers eerie parallels to another young woman killed nearby just months earlier. And he starts to wonder — are these cases linked by coincidence... or by a killer who's never been caught?
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In 2003, an LAPD cold case detective digging through old case files finds a piece of forgotten evidence that belongs to an unidentified woman found murdered off Mulholland Drive in 1969. As he searches for her identity, he uncovers eerie parallels to another young woman killed nearby just months earlier. And he starts to wonder — are these cases linked by coincidence... or by a killer who's never been caught?
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Hi, crime junkies, I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today is a perfect example of why we need to keep cold cases alive by talking about them and revisiting them with fresh eyes. Because when a detective went the extra mile to name a victim who couldn't speak for herself, his work led to a break in a case that seemed impossible to solve for decades, and it led him to another case that could be connected. But police still need more information to solve these cases once and for all, so we need you, crime junkies, to listen closely and share these details far and wide in case someone out there is sitting on answers. This is the story of the Mulholland Drive murders. It's January, 2003, and homicide detective Cliff Shepard is kicking off his year, digging through boxes of paperwork in the LAPD's archive unit. Detective Shepard's in almost three decade vet of the department, and he's recently been assigned to the cold case unit. So he's reviewing cases from the late 1960s, especially ones with evidence that can be tested with new technology. But the archives are a disaster. I mean, over the years, files have gone missing or haven't been logged correctly. Some case materials haven't been touched in decades. And so he's sorting through it all, trying to make sense of a backlog that's been gathering dust, skimming case summaries, trying to figure out which files are even complete. But when he pulls one box off the shelf and lifts the lid, he sees something that should never, ever be in these boxes, a tan lace bra stained with blood, not sealed, not tagged, just like shoved in this box with yellowing case files. And this is not how he should be finding evidence, but like on the other hand, it like it's evidence. It's still evidence like evidence with blood on it that may still be testable, which is like kind of exactly what he's looking for, right? So he sees the file, it's in belongs to the case of someone known only as Jane Doe 59 because she was LA County's 59th Jane Doe found in 1969. Even if the blood just belongs to this victim, like he sees huge potential to be able to use it to give her a name, which might actually kickstart an investigation that, as he goes on to read, didn't make it very far. So what he sees is that on November 16, 1969, a 15 year old boy was hiking Mulholland Drive to go bird watching when he found the woman's body in a ravine tangled up in branches and brushed about 15 feet down the hillside. LAPD arrived on the scene by nightfall and determined that the victim was white, about 23 years old, 59, and she had been stabbed in the neck over 150 times with what police thought was likely a small knife. Now to them, it looked like she'd been stabbed while laying on her back, like maybe her killer like sat on top of her to like subdue her, and she had her head turned to one side because most of her wounds were on the side of her neck. But she fought back or at least tried to block the blade from coming down on her because she had defensive wounds on her hands. Now, police didn't find the murder weapon at the scene, but they were pretty sure of one thing. This wasn't where she was killed. There were bloody drag marks left on Mulholland Drive like her killer had parked there, dragged her across the road and then put her body over the edge of the ravine until it fell down
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In 2003, an LAPD cold case detective digging through old case files finds a piece of forgotten evidence that belongs to an unidentified woman found murdered off Mulholland Drive in 1969. As he searches for her identity, he uncovers eerie parallels to another young woman killed nearby just months earlier. And he starts to wonder — are these cases linked by coincidence... or by a killer who's never been caught?
