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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: Caught By An Eyelash

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The day before her 28th birthday, Kiva Bible is murdered. Detectives search for over a decade with just one scrap of evidence: a single eyelash.


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0:00.0

Kiva Bible was born on September 27, 1958.

0:12.0

I don't know who her parents were, or if she had any siblings.

0:17.0

I don't know what city she was born in or where she grew up. The only information I found about Kiva is that she was a sex worker in Garden Grove, California, and she had a drug problem.

0:29.6

The only reason I found that information, or any information about Kiva at all, was because on the day before her 28th birthday, she was murdered.

0:41.8

From A&E, this is cold case files. I'm Brooke, and here's the original Bill Curtis,

0:49.5

with a classic case caught by an eyelash.

0:57.0

As I pulled up, I pulled down Lucille Street and right in the middle of the street,

1:02.0

it was a female laying down.

1:04.0

John Keely is a street cop with Garden Grove.

1:08.0

At a little after 2 a.m., he finds 28-year-old Kiva Bible face down in the middle

1:13.8

of the road. Originally, I came in from over here from the north side, and I drove down here,

1:20.6

at which time I immediately saw the female laying in the street right about where the light is shining.

1:25.2

On her chest, she had about four or five, I think it was five, but it may have been four.

1:29.0

Stab wounds.

1:29.9

They looked like they were pretty deep,

1:31.2

and they also had some type of a gauze

1:33.1

or something shoved in them to help stop the bleeding.

1:36.8

It made us believe that the incident happened somewhere else,

1:40.0

and the person didn't want blood all over wherever it happened.

1:43.0

That's what we were thinking at the time.

1:45.0

Keely finds no witnesses, no obvious evidence indicating how or why a young woman might have found herself dead.

1:54.0

Bible's body is zipped into a coroner's bag and sent to the morgue for autopsy.

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