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Corpus Delicti

153: Forensic Breakthrough: Dawn Fehring - Enhanced Digital Imaging

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dawn Fehring was new to the area and lived alone only to be found dead of strangulation in her room. Leads were thin aside from a few prints on her sheets that couldn't be made out. That is, until a digital enhancement expert decided to put the software he'd been creating in his garage to the test...

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
Kirkland Man Convicted In Slaying Of Student | The Seattle Times
STATE v. HAYDEN | FindLaw
Dawn Rene Fehring (1968-1995) - Find A Grave Memorial
The Hidden Clue - CBS News
Forensic Files - “Nice Threads”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.3

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.6

And welcome back to Corpus Delicti.

0:29.0

We are in full swing of our new series, The Forensic Breakthroughs.

0:34.8

Yeah.

0:35.1

So tonight we are going to bring you another story about a different

0:39.2

forensic breakthrough. And this one, actually, there is a Forensic Files episode on it. So I

0:45.9

definitely suggest that you watch it after this. It comes from Collection 9, which I believe is

0:51.1

like Season 9, and it's called Nice Threads. This episode is about a young

0:57.6

woman named Dawn Faring, and we are going to go ahead and just jump right on in. May 14, 1995,

1:06.1

a man was walking to his apartment, and on the way he sees another apartment whose door is open.

1:13.3

He knocked, nobody answered.

1:15.7

This is when he got a weird feeling, so he calls the police.

1:19.8

The police found 27-year-old Don Faring.

1:23.6

She was found dead and nude.

1:26.1

Other than her short covering of her face in her apartment floor in Kirkland, Washington,

1:32.0

she was near the foot of her bed.

1:34.3

And sadly, this was also Mother's Day.

1:37.8

So a little bit of information about Dawn Faring because it's very applicable to the case.

1:43.3

She had not lived here or in the apartment

1:45.9

long, only about two weeks. And because of that, she didn't even really know many people.

1:52.1

It's not like she knew all the neighbors. She was not dating anyone. So she's just this new girl

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