Killer Caught By A Thread

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Richard O Jones

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Mulholland Drive Sack Murder

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Episode 411 details the events following the discovery alongside the famed Mulholland Drive of a body sewn up in a makeshift canvas bag fashioned from an old awning. All fingers point to her friend, a physician with a shady past, whose defense is simply the old standby: “What? Who? Me?”

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0:00.0	Popular.com
0:07.0	Los Angeles, California, December 27th, 1927.
0:14.0	Tied an old canvas with hands and feet bound with binding twine. The body of a woman about 45
0:23.6	years of age was found within 400 feet of Mulholland Street, San Fernando, yesterday afternoon.
0:31.6	Marks of a blow from a blunt instrument were found on her forehead. Officers believe she was knocked unconscious,
0:40.3	tied up, and left to die from exposure. She had been dead about 24 hours. Her hands had been tied across
0:50.3	her breast with twine, her feet tied together and pulled up against her back, and the body securely
0:57.0	rolled in a piece of old canvas and tied with window sash weight cord. Her shoes had been removed
1:05.0	and have not been found by police. The body was found by Jack LaPoyle of the Pablo Lopez Ranch and D. Pellas, Wilson Ranch,
1:16.4	who notified Chief of Police Rich of San Fernando. After a preliminary investigation, he called in
1:24.5	Captain Bright of the Sheriff's Homicide Squad, Deputy Sheriff Hamby,
1:29.3	and Captain Newstetter of the Van Ice Police.
1:33.3	The body was removed to the noble undertaking chapel, San Fernando, where Dr. Webb,
1:40.3	Assistant County Autopsy Surgeon, was called in. Dr. Webb started an autopsy in which it was
1:46.8	revealed that the blow to the head was not severe enough to cause death, and Captain Bright expressed
1:53.5	the opinion that the woman was knocked unconscious, tied up, and left to die from exposure.
2:00.9	The victim is described as five feet four inches tall,
2:04.7	weighing about 145 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair,
2:10.1	a long scar on the forefinger of the right hand.
2:14.1	She was clothed in a black cryptocene dress when found.
2:18.3	Evidence that she had been drinking recently was found by Dr. Webb early in the autopsy.
2:25.3	Her right index finger was marked by a long scar and the nail was split and had the appearance of a claw.
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