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Forensic Files

Bound For Jail

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired February 4, 2019. A woman is found dead in a ravine near a jogging path. Crucial crime scene evidence had been washed away by severe thunderstorms. Then, almost 20 years later, two pieces of newly-discovered evidence brought the killer to justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A woman, jogging along a deserted footpath in central Michigan, disappeared.

0:07.0

When investigators find her body, clues at the scene point to a killer with professional training.

0:16.0

It took almost 20 years before an old hat and a chip of stainless steel no longer than a fingernail

0:24.2

brought the killer to justice.

0:37.1

On a beautiful summer day in 1986,

0:41.3

Muriel Kirby started her day as she always did

0:44.7

by meeting her daughter, Jeanette, for breakfast.

0:48.0

Well, to me, it was a very special routine.

0:50.7

Just talking over what had been going on

0:53.5

and what was on her mind or my mind.

0:56.7

It was a very special, almost a friendship breakfast.

1:04.2

But this morning was different from the others.

1:07.8

Jeanette didn't show up, and she never called or left a message.

1:13.1

Jeanette's employer said she hadn't shown up for work and she wasn't at her home either.

1:19.4

Her mother immediately notified police. The 35-year-old divorcee with no children wasn't known

1:26.5

for leaving town without notifying friends

1:29.1

and family.

1:31.2

As night fell, the sky was dark with rain clouds, and during the night, there were severe

1:38.1

thunderstorms the worst in years.

1:41.6

I knew in my heart that Jeanette was somewhere in that storm, and she needed help.

1:48.2

Jeanette was an avid walker, and she often explored the secluded trails of nearby Riverbend

1:54.0

Park, an undeveloped public space of more than 500 acres.

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