Murder Checks In
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When three women's bodies are found in Iowa hotels, all within miles of each other, police realize they are on the hunt for a serial killer.
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| 0:00.0 | Patricia Lang was 36 years old when she took a job in Des Moines, Iowa to be closer to her |
| 0:08.8 | family. |
| 0:10.6 | She was relocating there from Denver and needed a place to stay until our new apartment |
| 0:14.7 | was ready. |
| 0:18.1 | So in August of 1993, she booked a room for a week at the Holiday Inn in West Des Moines. |
| 0:25.8 | When Patricia didn't job for work on Monday, a member of the housekeeping staff was sent |
| 0:30.5 | to a room to make sure she was okay. |
| 0:34.5 | Patricia was not okay. |
| 0:36.3 | The housekeeper found her body in the hotel room. |
| 0:39.6 | Patricia had been murdered. |
| 0:44.0 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files. |
| 0:53.1 | Paul Bush from the Iowa DCI Crime Lab was at the scene. |
| 0:57.2 | This was probably one of the more violent crime scenes that I'd been on in the fact that |
| 1:01.9 | the victim was hands were bound. |
| 1:05.0 | There was also a piece of cloth tied around her neck. |
| 1:09.7 | Patricia's body was on the floor and the room had been ransacked. |
| 1:13.7 | Investigator Bush tried to make sense of what he saw at the crime scene and determined |
| 1:17.3 | a possible motive. |
| 1:19.4 | When the room was the victim's purse or clutch wallet and I think there was over $200 |
| 1:24.2 | yet still in her purse, there was no indication of a robbery type situation. |
| 1:29.7 | So the fact that the woman was naked from the waist down, it appeared again that we had |
| 1:33.6 | a sexual assault homicide. |
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