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This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Use your best judgment.

The first time I saw this video was a little bit more than I thought.

Alma Napier was 40 and March of 1980. She lived in a small town in California,

population 6,000. It was small, but that didn't stop the people living there from going out and having fun.

On March 25th, Alma went to a pub in the nearby town of Winchester. She didn't plan to drink,

but she liked to play pool. The bar was busy all night into the early morning hours.

Alma had a disagreement with the bartender and then another spat with a man she didn't know.

They could have been arguing over the pool table or maybe he had too much to drink.

Or it's possible he just gave her the creeps. No one knows for sure because Alma didn't tell anyone

else what they were arguing about. She couldn't because that conversation was the last one she ever had.

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At around 3am on March 26th, patrolman Steve Perlesnick was called to the scene of an accident

on Highway 79. There was only one car and it was still smoldering.

It was on its roof as I recall. It had been on fire. The female driver had been thrown loose

from the accident and this real dark foggy remote and quiet. Outside of the car, about 15 feet away,

the driver was laying face down on the ground. Perlesnick checked her vital signs,

but the woman was dead. He looked for identification, but the fire made it difficult.

No idea or anything and later on with further checks they got her name and address. Alma

nap here out of New Avalary which is locally here. I'm a good researcher but I couldn't find

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