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You could see in the video people looking out their windows, what is going on, you know,

to find body parts so close to where kids and families are living.

It was just kind of shocking at the time.

For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

In that afternoon of October 5th, 2003,

Sheriff's deputies responded to an apartment complex in the 1600 block of Hilton Head Court in Rancho San Diego for a report of human remains found in a dumpster.

In the fall of 2003, the legs of a murder victim were discovered inside a dumpster in Rancho

San Diego, California. But for more than a decade and a half, investigators couldn't figure out

who she was, how she died, or who killed her.

Despite the medical examiner and the homicide unit's best efforts, the woman was not identified,

and unfortunately, the case went cold.

David Gottfretson joins us from CBS 8 in San Diego.

David, let's go back to October of 2003.

Walk me through this gruesome discovery.

Well, it was gruesome.

Our cameras were there, and it was a discovery of body parts.

Originally, it was told to the news media, and we have video from the scene showing sheriff's detectives taking photos of the dumpster and it was later as you say discovered

that it was only adult female legs that were found and so tried to identify, figure out who this person was.

We presume they never found any more body parts and any other dumpsters around Southern California.

So the case went cold and they never figured out who this person was. And you mentioned this old

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