"They had a piece of a hair"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In 1988, San Diego County Sheriff's deputies found Diane Dahn's body inside a back room of her Santee, California apartment. More than three decades later, her murder has been solved. KFMB Reporter Heather Hope tells us how detectives tracked down a suspect. 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.
0:01.0	There was a hair that was recovered at the time of her murder inside one of her hands.
0:05.1	That hair was processed and a full profile was obtained.
0:09.0	Nine trees were constructed with almost 1,300 individuals connected to the suspect.
0:14.0	For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.
0:16.0	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:21.6	Thirty-four years later, the murder of a California woman is finally solved.
0:25.5	There were no arrests and not even a suspect named previously in the fatal stabbing of
0:30.4	single mom, Diane Donne, inside her Santee apartment back in 1988.
0:35.5	Detectives say forensic genetic evidence broke this case open.
0:39.0	I myself was going to go to my grave, not knowing. I'm so grateful to the detectives and everything
0:45.9	has been done. I'm joined by Heather Hope at CBS 8, KFMB in San Diego.
0:54.6	Heather, thanks for being here with us to talk about this case.
0:56.8	We appreciate it.
0:57.4	Hi, yes.
0:58.0	Great to be here.
0:58.9	Before we get into what we know about what happened back in 1988,
1:02.5	tell us a little bit about Diane Donne and what we know about her.
1:06.9	Diane Donne from all the pictures that we've seen of her,
1:09.6	she's always with her violin.
1:11.6	So that was cool to see.
1:12.6	And then after talking with her sister, just learning more that she was a student in Austria as a foreign exchange student,
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