"The cobwebs weren't disturbed"

The Daily Crime

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4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A decades-old cold case in Jacksonville, Fla., is no longer cold. FirstCoastNews reporter Katie Jeffries shares the story of Leslie McCray. 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	Coming up.
0:01.2	It mentions even that the cobwebs weren't disturbed.
0:04.7	So it does raise the question of, you know, was the door left unlocked?
0:08.4	How did this suspect get in there?
0:10.4	Was he watching them?
0:11.7	For Volt Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:14.0	You're listening to The Daily Crime. The 1985 murder of a teenage girl in Jacksonville, Florida, was considered a cold case for decades, but not anymore.
0:34.1	A family reacting tonight to an arrest in a decades-old cold case.
0:38.5	The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says DNA evidence linked a Michigan prison inmate
0:43.5	to the rape and murder of a 17-year-old Jacksonville girl in 1985.
0:48.1	I had never even heard that name until the Taylor Brooks told me.
0:56.6	Katie Jeffries with with WTLV First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida.
1:01.2	Take us back to where all of this started.
1:03.5	Christmas Eve of 1985.
1:05.6	What happened?
1:06.5	So Christmas Eve of 1985, Leslie McCray is 17 years old. She shares a apartment in Avondale,
1:14.0	which is an area close to downtown in Jacksonville and a pretty nice area, and it still is a nice
1:20.3	area to live. So she, around 3 o'clock in the morning, she and her boyfriend wake up to a man in their apartment,
1:29.2	and her boyfriend told police that this man had a knife and he was kneeling by the bed.
1:34.3	The man ties up Leslie's boyfriend with neckties, and then, you know, to the boyfriend's horror,
1:40.6	he watches as this man takes Leslie out of the apartment. And he says he takes her out the back
1:48.7	entrance. It takes about three hours for Leslie's boyfriend to get out of the neckties and then call
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