Alma Lake and Michelle Dawson-Pass

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AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Episode 192 Alma Lake and Michelle Dawson-Pass

Alma and Michelle were both from Columbus, Ohio. Both were young Black women. Both had children. Both led troubled lives involving sex work and drugs. And both were slain in the 1990s and dumped outdoors in remarkably similar circumstances. But no one really connected their cases, five years apart and in different counties, until DNA in each case connected to the same unknown killer. When modern investigators flushed him out using IGG, they were not surprised to learn he had other victims.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
0:03.8	Brought to you by Abject Entertainment, be sure to check out some of the other great true crime
0:08.8	podcasts from this network, including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons,
0:14.5	Scene of the Crime, Zodiac Speaking, Beyond Bizarre True Crime, Campus, Campus Killings,
0:20.7	below the surface, and killer communications.
0:24.6	All of these podcasts are available for you to binge on right now, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:30.2	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
0:57.0	The It was 1991.
1:13.6	It was 1991. On Monday, June 3, around 9.30 in the morning, citizen Paul Q was biking home from the Shell Station on State Road 62, where he'd gone to get a gallon of gas for his lawnmower.
1:38.1	He stopped at a friend's house at Craig and Olive when he saw a body lying out in the open in the urban area.
1:46.0	Deputy John Smith of the Franklin County Ohio Sheriff's Office responded to a dead body call at 9.56 a.m. Arriving at the northwest
1:53.3	corner of Olive Street and Craig Drive in Urban Crust Village, part of Columbus, the officer found the body
1:59.0	of a black female lying on her back in the grass,
2:02.0	about three feet from the road. Her arms were spread out straight from her shoulders, and she was in
2:06.4	full rigor. She was wearing only gray socks and two rings on her right ring finger. She was
2:12.2	five foot five, about 25 to 30 years old, and was noted to be missing two teeth from her upper
2:17.4	left jaw.
2:19.5	Notably, the deceased woman had two deep ligature marks around her neck. A report from Franklin
2:24.9	County Sheriff's Office, Detective Emmett Wheeler, says, quote, on the left side of the neck,
2:29.8	the ligature marks are together and split under the right side of the chin, with one continuing
2:34.6	around the neck and the other traveling upwards toward the right ear. The eyes are open. No patikia
2:40.1	is observed, end quote. The dead woman also had visible ligature marks on her wrists and ankles.
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