Teen taken from school before desert slaying; DNA links her killer to multiple missing women

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This Week on True Crime News the Podcast: A teen’s disappearance from school is treated like a runaway case despite her parents’ concerns, until the girl’s body is found in a shallow desert grave. Years after her brutal murder, DNA finds the man responsible for her tragic death. Megan and Anthony Smith of Mayhem in the Desert join host Ana Garcia. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language.
0:06.5	It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing.
0:12.7	Hello and welcome to a special edition of True Crime News of the podcast.
0:16.4	I'm your host Anna Garcia.
0:18.0	Everyone in the world of True Crime has a story to tell about a case that they worked
0:22.4	or that they lived through.
0:24.4	Some are high profile, some you've never heard of, but they're all fascinating.
0:28.7	Today's case is about the abduction of a 16 year old girl from a dairy queen in Las Vegas.
0:35.2	She was sexually assaulted and murdered and for more than 40 years
0:39.4	her case went unsolved.
0:41.3	And then our friends at Othrum Labs pulled off another miracle
0:46.3	with degraded DNA and found her killer. And that finding made it possible for
0:52.2	police to solve the murder of another young woman in the area.
0:56.0	Cases like this don't always receive the attention they deserve, but today we have an extraordinary couple. They're married, Mr. Mrs. Smith of Las Vegas,
1:06.0	and they have dedicated themselves to documenting the crime history of Las Vegas on their website,
1:12.0	Mayhem in the Desert.
1:14.0	Our guests today are Megan Smith an artist
1:16.5	and her husband Anthony Smith, an attorney.
1:19.4	Megan and Anthony, welcome.
1:22.2	How are you? We are doing great today. Yeah, it's doing wonderful. Yeah, thank you. Excellent. So, before we get into the case, I just want to understand a little bit more about you because I think that will help us with
1:33.2	perspective here. So how did you to end up with this fascination and this desire
1:40.5	to document and investigate these crimes in Las Vegas?
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