Jenny Lin (Queen of Hearts, California) Part 1

The Deck

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In 1994, the brutal murder of a 14-year-old inside her parents' safe suburban house left a community shaken to its core, because not only had a bright and talented life been suddenly snuffed out, but police struggled to find a motive. And the more clues they uncovered, the more investigators realized the nightmare they were dealing with: Jenny Lin’s murder was more than a crime of opportunity —it had been carefully planned. For nearly 30 years, Jenny’s murder has weighed on Alameda County and terrorized detectives as they’ve pondered the same question over and over since 1994: why Jenny?

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0:00.0	Our card this week is Jennifer Lynn, the Queen of Hearts from California.
0:08.8	In 1994, the brutal murder of 14-year-old Jenny inside her parents' safe suburban house left
0:14.9	a community shaken to its core, because not only had a bright and talented life been
0:20.0	suddenly snuffed out, but police struggled to find a motive.
0:24.0	And the more clues they uncovered, the more investigators realized the nightmare they
0:28.6	were dealing with.
0:30.3	Jenny's murder was more than a crime of opportunity.
0:33.8	It had been carefully planned.
0:36.6	For nearly 30 years, Jenny's murder has weighed on Alameda County and terrorized detectives
0:41.8	as they pondered the same question over and over since 1994.
0:47.7	Why Jenny?
0:49.8	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.
1:19.8	It was about 5.30 pm on May 27, 1994.
1:30.9	John Lynn was at work at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco and he knew that his 14-year-old
1:36.2	daughter was home alone in their Castro Valley home 30-some minutes away, so he called their
1:41.2	house phone to check in on her.
1:43.4	The call rang, but then the answering machine picked up.
1:46.8	It wasn't like Jenny to not answer the phone if she was home, but he figured she was
1:50.3	just busy around the house or maybe was outside playing with the family dog.
1:54.4	So John wrapped things up at work and started heading home just before 6.
1:58.8	He jumped on the train as he did every day and arrived at his station at around 6.30.
2:03.9	That's when he hopped in his car and was home by 6.45.
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