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Forensic Files

Sign of the Crime

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered. The similarities of the crime scenes led police to conclude they were dealing with a serial killer who harbored an intense hatred of women... and they had to find him before he struck again.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Up next, two brutal murders put a city on edge.

0:04.0

We're all bothered by it.

0:06.0

It's hard to sleep at night.

0:08.0

Was this the work of a serial killer?

0:10.0

There were multiple similarities between the two scenes.

0:13.0

Police have few clues.

0:14.0

These crime scenes primarily were all debris, basically.

0:18.0

But plenty of motive.

0:20.0

He has obviously a hatred towards women.

0:23.0

The case went cold until a lover's quarrel flew out of control.

0:30.0

I want you to listen to my songs.

0:36.0

In the early 1990s, Seattle, Washington was one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

0:44.0

Renee Powell, a 43-year-old registered nurse, visited Seattle on vacation and never left.

0:52.0

She blew them just like a flower and she blew it.

0:55.0

She could not believe how she looked and how she talked and she giggled and she laughed.

1:01.0

But two years after Renee moved to Seattle, tragedy struck.

1:06.0

On a cold February night, a fire broke out in her apartment.

1:11.0

When firefighters extinguished the blaze, they found Renee's body.

1:17.0

The victim was faced down, arms to the side, legs apart.

1:22.0

An ice pick was found between her legs.

1:26.0

Most of her clothes had been torn off.

1:28.0

There were only remnants of a shirt that she had been wearing.

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