[Bonus] The Tale of Wendy Jo Halison: Solving L.A.'s Coldest Case
The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast
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🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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The 1968 Disappearance Of Wendi Jo Halison And The Solving Of The LAPD's Oldest Cold Case
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On September 30th, 1968, Wendy Jo Halison left her Los Angeles home to run to Thrifty’s Drug Store to buy a new hair dryer. She never came home. Her case would turn into the oldest cold case to be solved in LAPD history. Edwin Dean Richardson had been on parole for 5 months when Wendy was murdered. He also killed several other women before he was linked to Wendy's killing, but her family would not find out about him until 4 years after he died in prison.
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| 0:00.0 | On the afternoon of September 30th, 1968, |
| 0:05.0 | Wenji Joe Hallison needed a new hair dryer. |
| 0:09.0 | If you were to take a moment to look up some pictures of the 22 year old co-ed. It's easy to see that she very much |
| 0:17.7 | enjoyed styling her beautiful dark hair in some of the most popular ways women did during that period of time in the late |
| 0:26.6 | 1960s. You will also see she was indeed quite stunning as well. Not surprisingly, Wendy Joe had been a |
| 0:37.9 | former beauty queen and that's easy to see. She was just a lovely woman and she was creative too, |
| 0:47.5 | majoring in art at what was then Valley State College. She headed out to a Thrifties drugstore. |
| 0:55.0 | Do you guys remember Thrifties? |
| 0:58.0 | If you are in the United States, |
| 1:01.0 | I'm not sure if they were everywhere, but where I'm at. They're all now right |
| 1:06.8 | aides. But they do still sell Thrifties ice cream, which is what they were really famous for when I was a kid. |
| 1:15.6 | We used to ride our bikes and get 20 cents scoops. |
| 1:19.4 | Now I think a scoop is like three or four dollars. The thrifties that she was going to |
| 1:25.2 | was located in what is known as the Mid Wilshire District area of Los Angeles |
| 1:30.7 | surrounded by the Mid City District to the South, Beverly Hills to the West, West Hollywood to the North, and Korea Town to the East. |
| 1:42.0 | Wendy Joe phoned her sister Linda that afternoon. |
| 1:45.0 | She told her that she saw an ad in the paper that Thrifties was having a sale in hair dryers |
| 1:50.0 | and asked if she wanted to go shopping with her. |
| 1:52.0 | But Linda had to decline. and asked if she wanted to go shopping with her. |
| 1:53.2 | But Linda had to decline. |
| 1:55.6 | At the time, she had two young boys at home. |
| 1:59.1 | It was a Sunday and her husband was home from work |
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