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Jane's body was in the back seat.

She was partially nude with her hands tied behind her back.

She had been raped and her throat had been slit.

Two months later, 28-year-old Patricia Dwyer was found dead in her at Tascadero home.

She was also partially nude with her hands tied behind her back and a single stab wound

in her chest.

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's detectives quickly determined that, based on the similarities

and the proximity, both murders were likely the work of one person.

But without any suspects and an incomplete 1970s understanding of DNA, the murders remained

unsolved and were eventually declared cold.

In 2016, after several years of requests, Sheriff Ian Parkinson was finally allotted a budget

to hire a cold case detective whose job would be to reexamine unsolved crimes starting

from page 1.

In January 2017, Detective Clint Cole was promoted to the position and moved to an annex of the

Sheriff's Department, lined with shelves full of Azure Blue boxes which contained the

case files of 43 unsolved homicides in San Luis Obispo County.

With the antennas and Dwyer cases, he had a good place to start.

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