May 6th, 1988 Burbank, California.

Crystal Spencer, a 28-year-old aspiring actress working as a topless dancer, phones her 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 coroner 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. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, for, uh, uh, uh,

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uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 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 Unsol Mysteries, the unexplained 1988 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 not bizarre elements in this story to suggest she may have actually been the victim of foul play.

Crystal's biggest advocate has been her boyfriend, Anton Klein, who is quite a unique character himself

and has pushed forward the theory that Crystal was murdered, with the potential perpetrator

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