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🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | In 1995, police in California received an anonymous letter which identified a pair of severed |
0:09.2 | hands as those of a Navy pilot who had been murdered. |
0:14.6 | The letter described the murder in gruesome detail. |
0:20.2 | Investigators searched for some clue to the identity of the author and the killer. |
0:30.0 | San Diego, the second largest city in California, its bay is one of the finest natural |
0:43.8 | harbors in the world and is home to one of the largest naval bases in the country. |
0:53.6 | In 1994, workers at the San Diego Fibers Corporation were sifting through some card |
0:59.8 | board in a recycling bin. |
1:06.8 | They made a gruesome discovery. |
1:11.8 | Two human hands. |
1:13.8 | First, I wasn't sure that this was legitimate. |
1:16.8 | I thought, you know, a pair of human hands found in dumpsters seemed a little bit strange. |
1:21.2 | And we collected evidence as if it was a normal homicide with a complete body. |
1:26.7 | This was a little bit different because all we had were hands. |
1:31.0 | X-ray showed the generative damage of the joints consistent with an individual over age |
1:36.8 | 60 and the size of the fingers and knuckles indicated they were men's hands. |
1:44.2 | The right hand had one distinctive feature. |
1:48.2 | The thumbnail was missing. |
1:52.2 | It's checked local hospitals and morgs to see if they had a body of an elderly man without |
1:59.0 | hands. |
2:01.4 | On the other side of town, Mary Meade and Terry Holland were beginning to worry. |
2:07.7 | They hadn't seen their father Don Hardin in more than a week. |
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