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The day that I found out that Lisa had been murdered is burned into my memory. The world stopped. Everything went silent.

Why would this happen to her?

Who could have done such a thing?

It was like this bitter mystery.

As time went on, it even got worse because nobody was arrested.

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

Each one is a cold case.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories. It's a cool spring evening on May 16th, 1998, and 36-year-old Lisa Valdez is welcoming guests at her new apartment.

She's hosting a dinner party for her mother Helen's boyfriend and celebrating her

brand new apartment. Helen had just purchased Lisa, a studio apartment on Red Rock Way in the

bustling neighborhood of Diamond Heights in San Francisco, California. When her best friend,

Maisa Robinson, visited for the first time, she was mesmerized.

My best friend, Lisa had this beautiful studio apartment in Diamond Heights that her mother

had Helena purchased for her that had a breathtaking view. It was tiny, but it had a

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