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Dateline Originals

Murder in the Hollywood Hills - Ep. 3: The Girl with the Hibiscus Tattoo

Dateline Originals

NBC News

True Crime

4.6773 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Detectives interview a suspect even as they search for Kristi. This episode was originally published on April 2, 2024.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sometimes it's better to be lucky and good, though of course it's always good to be both.

0:08.0

That was never truer perhaps than in the case of that missing young woman, Christy Johnson.

0:15.0

If she doesn't tell the roommate that she's going off to meet somebody and this is what she's wearing.

0:24.3

This case never goes anywhere.

0:26.6

If another woman who'd been recently propositioned by a photographer hadn't called a tip line

0:31.7

and provided police with a description of a possible suspect, detectives wouldn't have had a sketch

0:37.4

to show the public.

0:38.3

This man approached me, and he looked normal.

0:42.3

If a parole officer hadn't noticed the sketch looked a lot like one of her parolees,

0:48.3

the detectives wouldn't have known who to investigate.

0:51.3

He had only been released from prison on January 20th, 2003.

0:55.6

So, yes, one month later, and a week after Christy vanished,

1:00.6

the detectives got lucky.

1:02.9

They had a suspect.

1:05.0

But they still hadn't found Christy.

1:07.9

And luck rarely holds for long.

1:10.7

It was extremely frustrating, especially since some time. Christy, and luck rarely holds for long.

1:15.8

It was extremely frustrating, especially since some time had elapsed.

1:18.2

We weren't sure if she was alive.

1:19.9

We were hoping that she was alive.

1:34.4

In this episode, you'll hear about disturbing similarities, the mall, the man, bond film auditions, and more women.

1:46.2

I was watching the news one morning, having a cup of coffee, and the story was on, and there was this drawing of someone, a composite, and I recognized him immediately.

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