154: Forensic Breakthrough: Dawn Sanchez - NASA Robot

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dawn Sanchez goes missing with zero evidence of what happened aside from an eye witness who refuses to testify. The main suspect is let go due to lack of evidence until years later when investigators get a tip. The tip indicates Dawn's body may have been there at one point, but she still wasn't found. Police were grabbing at straws until they enlisted the help of NASA.

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Kai Engel
"Daemones"
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Sources:
Dawn Elaine Sanchez – The Charley Project
Slaying suspect hid dead woman in closet, police say – The Mercury News
NASA robot helps crack a murder case | ZDNet
Dawn Elaine Sanchez | State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
Investigators report dead-ends in cases of two Los Altos women (losaltosonline.com)
NASA - Team Solves 1991 Cold-Case
CSI: Carnegie Mellon - Carnegie Mellon University | CMU
Lack of Body Doesn’t Stop Peninsula Conviction – NBC Bay Area
NASA's Unexplained Files: Season 3, Episode 6 script | Subs like Script

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone's today.
0:03.0	Hey, everyone is Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.6	And welcome back to Corpus Delicti Ferenic Breakthrough Series.
0:30.7	We are back with a new case this week.
0:34.0	One quick update on the show format, we are when we can going to start recording two
0:44.2	episodes at a time just because it kind of worked well for our schedule last time. So there
0:49.0	will be times where we don't have a recording question just since for time's sake, since we're trying to
0:55.6	squeeze more in, there will be times when we do. Like if there's an episode that's slightly shorter,
1:00.7	or, you know, if we can't do two that week or whatever. So just a heads up, sometimes we'll have
1:05.9	them and sometimes we will not. This episode we do. So just a heads up that that is changing. This week's episode,
1:13.2	we are going to take you to California in 1991. Our story begins on August 30th. A 32-year-old
1:21.9	Don Elaine Sanchez was seen leaving the hotel where she lived with her boyfriend in his car.
1:29.3	The car was a tan and brown 79 Pontiac Grand Prix.
1:34.8	That was the last time anyone saw her or heard from her.
1:39.8	However, she wasn't reported missing until early October.
1:45.3	She did work in the sex trade, so there were times where she may not see family or friends for a few days or more.
1:52.4	So just because it took a while to report her missing did not indicate anything, she definitely still had family and friends and loved ones.
2:03.7	And some sources say that she also went by the name Monique Sanchez. So everyone is on the lookout. They hear about this
2:10.2	woman that went missing. She was very petite. She was 4 foot 11, 109 pounds. She was a Hispanic woman with black hair and brown eyes. And at the time,
2:21.2	she was thought to have been wearing a black imitation leather vest, a black blouse, and blue jeans.
2:28.0	And she had a few tattoos. She had a rose on her ankle, the name Felicia on her ankle, and then one that was unknown on her chest.
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