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True Crime Couple

Episode 219: The Murder of Patricia Ann Ross

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

On December 11, 1974 Patricia Ann Ross had a hot date, or at least one that she hoped would be. Unfortunately, she would never find out because as she got ready to go out that night she was brutally attacked in her apartment. Join me as I tell John the case of Annie Greenthings.

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Sources:
https://behindthebadge.com/anatomy-cold-case-40-years-la-palma-police-believe-killer/
https://lizjin.medium.com/victims-dog-helps-solve-city-s-oldest-cold-case-a0c0c1317a96
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-sentence-oc-killing-20180507-story.html
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode 119 of the true crime couple. I'm Kay. And don't worry, I promise John is in this episode. But what I'm doing is I'm recording the intro after we've recorded the episode. And I just wanted to give a little disclaimer. At around 40 minutes, we had to stop the podcast because we had a little disturbance in the house.

0:24.1

And then we recorded the second half the following morning.

0:27.3

So if you hear a change in our voices, that's the reason why.

0:31.5

But other than that, the episode is ready to go.

0:35.4

So are you ready to hear something crazy?

0:40.5

Police say the suspect, 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer, has confessed to the killings of 11 people

0:46.0

whose remains were found in his apartment. We are all evil in some form or another. Are we not?

0:53.3

Lock your doors, lock your windows. If you have the ability to provide additional security

0:58.3

devices, then by all means do so.

1:01.8

On December 11, 1974, Patricia Ann Ross, or Annie, as her close friends called her, had a hot

1:09.9

date. Well, she hoped it would be.

1:13.8

31-year-old Annie, a divorce day from Tucson, Arizona, who stood at just five feet one inch

1:20.6

tall, was breathtakingly beautiful. The kind of woman that got a lot of attention, the welcomed and unwelcomed.

1:30.3

But everyone in Annie's close circle of friends in La Palma, California, where she moved after her divorce,

1:37.3

said to know Annie was to love her.

1:41.3

As Annie packed up her things, to leave her plant store, Annie Green Things,

1:47.6

which she owned with her business partner, Mike Green. She joked with the women that she employed.

1:54.5

She had told them earlier in the day that she would need to shave her legs before the date.

1:59.3

Because her love life had been so stagnant, she could braid her

2:03.5

leg hairs. And the women laughed and laughed the way they always did when they were around Annie.

2:11.0

Before she walked out of the door at 5 p.m., Annie looked back at them and said, okay, I have a hot date tonight, but I fear it will just

2:21.1

turn out to be lukewarm. This date that Annie was referring to was a double date with the man

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