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Forensic Files

True Lies

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A woman's body was found on a deserted road outside of San Antonio. After years, the victim's family hired a private investigator who finds her personal diary and uses its entries to find the perpetrator.

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0:00.0

The murder of a beautiful young woman went unsolved for years.

0:07.4

A murder with forensic evidence and plenty of suspects.

0:11.8

But sometimes, that's not enough.

0:16.8

It took the victim's nine-year-old child,

0:19.7

notations in a diary and forensic psychology to determine

0:24.1

which forensic evidence was important and which to ignore.

0:30.0

The murder of a beautiful young woman went unsolved for years.

0:36.4

30-year-old Kathleen Lipska was trying to find her way,

0:42.2

raising two young children while at the same time working as a nurse

0:46.7

in San Antonio, Texas.

0:51.3

She was a very caring person.

0:54.9

She loved her family.

0:56.6

She stayed in constant contact with us.

1:00.5

Kathleen had been married for eight years to Bill Lipska,

1:03.9

a sergeant in the United States Air Force,

1:06.5

but they had recently separated.

1:09.9

Their arrangement was for Bill to take care of their children on weekends.

1:16.8

But one Sunday night, Kathleen didn't arrive to pick them up as planned.

1:23.7

Bill drove the children to Kathleen's apartment, but she wasn't there.

1:28.3

And her car was missing so they left notes on her door.

1:35.8

The next morning, there was still no sign of her.

1:40.0

One of her coworkers called me and told me that they were worried

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