010 - The Bizarre Murder of Arlis Perry

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Nineteen year old newlywed Arlis Perry got into a spat with her husband while on a walk. She decided to go on alone to Stanford Memorial Church to calm down and pray. She would never come back. At 5:45am a security guard would find her body inside the church, murdered with an ice pick and posed in a lewd and sacrilegious position.

Her murder would become the subject of theories about the occult and satanism. Some would link her death to the Son of Sam, the Zodiac Killer and a satanic organization known as the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Despite these theories, the true identity of the man who murdered Arlis was unknown.

Witnesses would come forward to describe a man with sandy hair seen entering the church that night, a man whose description matches that of a man seen arguing with Arlis at her job the day before she was murdered. Join host Steven Pacheco as he explores this case, and studies the unanswerable question: Who murdered and posed Arlis Perry?

UPDATE:As of June 26th, 2018, the Murder of Arlis Perry has been solved. Security Guard Steve Blake Crawford, who initially reported discovering her body in 1974 committed suicide while Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputies arrived to execute a search warrant after DNA successfully linked him to the murder. A segment has been added to the end of this episode discussion to the new information.

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0:00.0	Are the first steps the most beautiful they'll ever take?
0:04.0	Life is blessed with a hundred once-in-a-lifetime moments
0:08.0	from their first holiday to their first birthday.
0:11.0	Special moments deserve a special camera.
0:14.0	With incredible autofocus, the new Canon EOS R100
0:18.0	makes once-in-a-lifetime last a lifetime.
0:22.0	Nothing preserves the feeling quite like a Canon camera.
0:25.0	Such Canon EOS R100 for life's most precious memories.
0:29.0	Arles Perry came from a conservative family and was a devout Christian.
0:34.0	She had recently married Bruce Perry, her former high school sweetheart,
0:38.0	and at the time, a student at Stanford University in California.
0:43.0	For the first time in her life, she left her hometown of Bismarck, North Dakota,
0:48.0	and moved into a dorm for married couples in Palo Alto, California.
0:53.0	Here, she lived with her new husband,
0:56.0	and while he pursued a career in mental health, she explored her new world.
1:01.0	The transition was hard for a conservative Midwestern woman,
1:05.0	living now in a much more liberal California in 1974.
1:09.0	She was lonely, and while her husband toiled away at his studies or at his job,
1:14.0	she longed desperately for the family and friend she had left behind.
1:18.0	In countless letters and phone calls, she expressed this sadness
1:22.0	and discussed her frustration with being so isolated in a new place.
1:27.0	Things began to turn around for Arles, though,
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