Treads And Threads

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A serial killer was strangling prostitutes then leaving the bodies in plain sight. The only clues were a tire impression and some threads.

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0:00.0	The Serpent Sand of Central Florida
0:03.3	make this a popular vacation spot.
0:05.9	But the area lost some of its luster in 1995
0:10.1	when a serial killer set up shock.
0:13.7	After the fourth body was discovered,
0:15.8	police knew an important detail about the killer.
0:19.8	He had an unusual dog with an unusual drug habit.
0:30.0	The Serpent Sand of Central Florida
0:35.1	is a tourist destination.
0:37.2	Tampa, Florida is known not only as a tourist destination,
0:40.6	but it also has more thunderstorms
0:42.6	than any other location in the United States.
0:45.9	The name Tampa is derived from the Kallusa Native American word,
0:49.9	meaning lightning.
0:52.3	Along with the tourism, there is prostitution.
0:57.3	On October 20, 1995,
1:00.1	a pizza delivery driver discovered
1:02.1	the nude body of a white woman in nearby clear water.
1:07.6	42-year-old Wendy Evans was a crack cocaine addict
1:11.7	recently released from a mental health clinic.
1:14.7	She was last seen hitchhiking in an area
1:17.5	frequented by prostitutes.
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