The Girl Next Door
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On May 1, 2003, the body of a teenage girl was found in a trash bag behind a restaurant in California. The mystery of “Jane Doe” motivated a community, investigators and forensic scientists to find who she was and who killed her. "48 Hours" correspondent Harold Dow reports.
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| 0:00.0 | She was 5'1, 1010. |
| 0:05.0 | She was 5'1, 110 pounds. |
| 0:23.6 | She had a butterfly clip in the back of her hair. |
| 0:29.6 | She had beautiful gold hoop earrings. |
| 0:34.6 | No drugs, no alcohol, inner system. |
| 0:38.3 | If you put that all together, it tells you that this is the girl that was living next door. |
| 0:48.3 | This girl could be from Louisiana, this girl could be from New York. This girl could be from Rhode Island. |
| 0:56.0 | We have no idea where to even start. |
| 1:02.0 | Unfortunately, we're going to have to dig up her body |
| 1:05.0 | to find out who she is. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Sergeant Scott Dudec. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm a detective with the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. |
| 1:14.6 | I can vividly recall pulling in here that night. |
| 1:19.6 | It was late at night. |
| 1:20.6 | They found a bag behind the local restaurant here in Kestra Valley. |
| 1:30.3 | You know, and the sad part about it too is outside of being discarded like a piece of trash behind a tree. |
| 1:36.3 | She had a rag stuff down her throat. |
| 1:41.3 | She died of asphyxiation. So it's just a horrific, horrific ending. |
| 1:47.0 | We have to figure out who this little girl is to go forward with the homicide investigation. One, two, three, up. |
| 2:03.6 | We're hopeful that the new pathologist that looks at her little body can tell us something that maybe we miss. |
| 2:11.6 | Yep, down. |
| 2:13.6 | Okay, hold on a minute. This was a living, breathing person. |
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