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David and Melinda Harmon lives in a duplex in Olaythacanthus in 1982

He was 25 and she was 24

David worked as a cashier at a local bank his co-workers described him as easygoing

His friend said he was active in church

Gail Berkstren lived with her husband on the other side of the Harmon's duplex the two families shared a wall

On February 27th Gail heard loud noises coming from the Harmon's home around 2.30 a.m

This is Gail Berkstren

I mean this was the kind of a loud noise that just wakes you from a deep sleep you sit up in the bed just

Bold upright and you just look at each other and say what was that?

I told my husband I said I'm gonna call the police and he said well

What are you gonna tell them that you heard thumping in our neighbors?

Duplex and and I said oh you're right. You know, I can't I can't do that but

I said I'm gonna put my ear in the wall and if I hear one more thing I'm calling the

Noise is stopped and the Berkstrens went back to sleep

until they heard someone banging on their door

It was their neighbor

Mollanda Harmon

She said I think Davis dead. I think Dave could be dead and she didn't know that definitively

The loud noises Gail had heard were the sounds of David Harmon being murdered

From Annie this is cold case files

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