Summary
The body of a young girl was discovered on isolated farm land near Delano, California. She had no ID, but police found mailbox and house keys in the pocket of her jeans. With no other clues, they checked the mailboxes of every apartment building in Delano… and their persistence paid off.
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| 0:00.0 | An unidentified woman was found dead, and police wanted answers. |
| 0:07.0 | But everything they needed was in the dirt at the crime scene. |
| 0:12.0 | And it told the story from the beginning to the tragic end. |
| 0:35.5 | As the sun rose on the farmlands outside Delano, California, a farm worker saw something he never expected that his farm had become a crime scene. |
| 0:40.3 | The scene indicated what was a very violent crime. |
| 0:43.3 | It was obviously strong evidence, even initially tend to indicate there was a sexual assault. |
| 0:48.3 | The victim was a young, teenaged girl. |
| 0:51.3 | She was nude and had been beaten and stabbed to death. |
| 0:57.0 | No one would have been around to hear any screams. And it was the kind of place where there |
| 1:03.0 | wouldn't have been just someone driving by, certainly on a dirt road off of the main road. |
| 1:08.0 | She had no identification and she didn't match any missing persons reports. Police found a pair of |
| 1:15.1 | jeans near her body. In the pocket was a keychain with the initial F. And there was some |
| 1:24.0 | broken jewelry. In the clothing up around her neck, there are pieces of a gold-linked chain. |
| 1:30.3 | They're in the clothing and they're on her skin. |
| 1:33.3 | Crime scene technicians processed an area close to 700 square feet and photographed the shoe and |
| 1:41.3 | tire impressions found in the soft dirt. |
| 1:45.0 | Interestingly, there was only one set of shoe prints. |
| 1:50.0 | Presence of only one set of footprints at the scene, |
| 1:52.0 | when you obviously know there's been two people, |
| 1:54.0 | is an indicator that the victim very well may have been dragged from the vehicle. |
| 1:58.0 | Also, in the dirt near the tire impressions were hand prints, presumably those of the victim. |
| 2:05.4 | She had put up a struggle. |
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