Gayla McNeil

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Episode 140 Gayla McNeil

In October 1983, a young homicide detective caught his first case when a woman turned up floating in a canal in Palm Beach County, Florida. The Jane Doe was a homicide victim, with brutal injuries and evidence of rape. A complex investigation failed to identify her – but then her fingerprints did. She was Gayla Ann McNeil, a former US Airforce service member. Detective Bill Springer began a 40 year quest to solve Gayla’s murder – which involved figuring out where she had last been seen and by whom. It turned out, her last known contact was with law enforcement – and a clerical error may have cost her her life.

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0:00.0	A heavy breather on the line, or maybe a hang-up phone call. A cold letter mailed to taunt police
0:05.8	or a victim's family. A mean-spirited email meant to inflict pain on its recipient.
0:11.9	What do all these things have in common? They're all various modes of communication connected
0:16.6	to shocking crimes going back decades. I'm Mike Morford, host of the podcast Killer Communications, and in every episode, I tell
0:24.6	the story of a case involving some form of sinister contact, whether it's to a victim,
0:29.5	their family, police, or the press.
0:32.3	For the senders of these communications, it's bold and brazen.
0:35.9	For the recipients, it can be frightening or downright terrifying.
0:40.0	And you won't believe just how often it happens. Check out killer communications right now
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0:50.4	You're listening to DNAID. Brought to you by Abject Entertainment.
0:55.9	Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network,
1:00.4	including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac speaking,
1:06.7	Beyond Bizarre True Crime, Citizen Detective, and Campus Killings.
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1:18.1	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
1:30.3	The The
1:47.0	The It was 1983.
2:15.6	Adela Williams and Evelyn Gary were doing what they did every day in sunny Delray Beach, Florida, fishing in the canal.
2:22.3	But on this Friday, October 21st, it wasn't just fish in the muddy water.
2:26.9	They saw what they thought was a Hispanic male bobbing partially under the surface.
2:31.7	The call to police came in at 5.35 p.m. and responding deputies from the Palm Beach
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