This episode contains stories involving violence against children.

Listener discretion is advised.

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

Thank you. is one of those rare stories. It's September 30, 1979, Diana and Kevin Green are newlyweds, living in the small town

of Tustin, California.

Kevin is a 21-year-old corporal in the Marine Corps.

20-year-old Diana is nine months pregnant with the couple's first baby.

We had gone out and done all the baby shopping, you know, doing the Lamas classes, practicing the route to the hospital.

Everything was just, you know, from our naive point of view, it was perfect.

That night, the couple spent the evening at home watching a movie.

At 1.30 in the morning after this movie ended, I had been thinking about wanting whatever a cheeseburger from Jack in the Box.

And it's across the street.

So I decided to get up and go to the Jack in the Box and get some food.

Kevin finds the drive-thru backed up with cars and heads to another 15 minutes away.

Green then returns home to find the door to his kitchen a jar.

I came back and that kitchen door was standing open a little bit. I hadn't locked it. I didn't

have a key and went in and I found that she'd been, I thought she'd been shot.

Diana Green lies on her bed with what appears to be a gunshot wound to the forehead.

Kevin calls the police and his wife is rushed to the hospital, where the wound is determined to not be from a gunshot, but blunt force trauma.

She was conscious. She could open one eye and even the look that I could see from her face in that one eye was, you know, why are you letting this go on?

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