6. 1988.

Burbank, California

Crystal Spencer, a 28-year-old aspiring actress working as a topless dancer, phones

are sister and mentions that she is feeling ill.

No one hears from Crystal after this, and one week later, her decomposing body is discovered

in a corner in her apartment.

She is nude from the waist down, entangled in her telephone cord, and the corner is unable

to determine her cause of death.

However, neighbors report having heard screams from Crystal's apartment, and her boyfriend

notices odd discrepancies in her autopsy report, which makes him suspect that she was a victim,

a foul play.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and today we're going to explore a pretty strange case which

was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, the unexplained 1908 death of Crystal Spencer.

It's the story of a small town girl who moved to Hollywood with aspirations of becoming

an actress, but wound up coming to a tragic end.

However, the exact circumstances of what actually happened to her are a big mystery.

All anyone knows is that Crystal was found dead inside her apartment one week after she

was last heard from, but her body was so decomposed by this point that no one was able

to determine how she died.

It's possible that she simply succumbed to an unknown illness, but there are enough

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