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Okay, before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to give a quick trigger warning

because this case involves crimes including rape and sexual assault and will be discussing some of that. So I just wanted to give a trigger warning before getting into that episode and if that's not your thing, then you don't want to listen to that. We'll see you in the next one and we totally understand.

On January 17th, 1989, Timothy Wilson Spencer was convicted for the rape, burglary and murder of Dr. Susan Helms.

Spencer had already been convicted three months prior for another murder and three months before that for one more.

Okay, Sarah O'Killer.

This was the third murder conviction for a man that became known as the South Side Strangler who wreaked havoc in Richmond, Virginia in the late 1980s. Oh no.

He was also the first person in US history to be convicted based on DNA evidence. Nice. Okay.

So before I go anymore into this case, I want to give a huge shout out to a podcast called Southern Nightmare. They covered this case in full depth and they talked to detectives, prosecutors, friends and families of the victims and they just like went really in depth to a lot of this.

So I'll cover a lot of the information, but if you want more and different perspectives on all of this and kind of how it unfolded, which I always find so interesting hearing from like the detectives that worked on it and I'm talking about how it all unfolded.

I highly recommend you listen to the podcast. I'll link it in the show notes and it's a really good podcast. Awesome.

And also this case was suggested by Alexis. So thank you, Alexis, for the suggestion.

Yeah. Thank you. So on the morning of September 19th, 1987, a man named Arnold Ellis was coming home from a night out when he noticed that there was a car parked on the street in front of his house.

So this was a little bit weird because that car wasn't normally there, but it was really late at night. He was like, whatever, it's probably just somebody that parked their car there didn't think much of it.

When he got up six hours later, the car was still sitting outside and now the engine was running, but no one was inside.

So at that point, he called the police to report an abandoned vehicle. And when the first officer arrived to investigate what this car was, he determined that it belonged to 35 year old Debbie Dudley Davis.

Wow. I know I really like her name Debbie Dudley Davis. I feel like it's a lot of these. Yeah.

So Debbie lived in a apartment in West over Hills in Richmond, Virginia. And this was just a street over from Ellis's house where her car was found.

So the officer went over to her apartment to talk to her. I'm assuming that her either her license or her registration inside the car had her address.

And that's how they figured out who it belonged to you and then like where she lived. So he went over to her apartment, but no one answered the door.

While he was there knocking on the door, a neighbor of hers was worried that she wasn't answering the door.

So she gave the officer the spare set of keys that she had so he could go inside and check on Debbie.

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