Summary
The victim was discovered in a landfill, stuffed into a suitcase. She resembled another woman, missing for 18 months. Sure they were dealing with a serial killer, police faced the daunting task of combing through 225,000 tons of trash to find her body.
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| 0:00.0 | Up next, a teenage girl vanishes from her bedroom. |
| 0:04.7 | All they had was evidence that she was gone. |
| 0:07.2 | Investigators hoped her computer would hold a clue. |
| 0:10.3 | You can create whatever kind of persona you want when you're online. |
| 0:13.1 | For almost two years, her case went unsolved until another girl from the same town also went missing. |
| 0:21.6 | All we had was a suitcase, a body, and a tattoo on an ankle. |
| 0:25.6 | Police suspected a serial killer was on the loose, |
| 0:28.6 | one who had a penchant for redheads. |
| 0:32.6 | The end result wasn't sex. |
| 0:34.6 | It was power and it was murder. |
| 0:59.0 | On a typically hot day in Lubbock, Texas, a worker at a landfill noticed something out of place, even for a trash heap. The guy that was standing out there saw the suitcase being dumped, and it appeared that something was in it. |
| 1:06.0 | Curious, the worker opened it and looked inside. |
| 1:14.6 | He had thought contained a mannequin at first, |
| 1:18.6 | quickly determined that it was a young lady that had been put in that suitcase. |
| 1:22.6 | Her body had been folded into a fetal position, many bruises and injuries. |
| 1:29.6 | The victim was a young woman, nude, with red hair. |
| 1:35.0 | She had no identification except for a small tattoo |
| 1:38.5 | that said, summer. |
| 1:41.9 | The medical examiner said the victim had been dead less than 24 hours. |
| 1:46.0 | The evidence showed she'd been severely beaten and was still breathing when placed in the suitcase. |
| 1:55.0 | The official cause of death was asphyxiation. |
| 1:59.0 | It's a pretty horrific way to die being in that suitcase and still being alive. |
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