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comes to a sudden end. Very she had been targeted. The suspect knew that but the trail grew cold. I remain one detective saying to me: we'll just have to wait until it kills again. It was decades before someone took another look The whole goal in these cases just try to see the thing was hiding in plain sight, the clues weapon. wedding invitation. Sale to nowhere. You stalker, my sister was afraid I was a hundred and confident he was our guide, a determined It's a keener faces off against Oji Simpsons Attorney, didn't give you pop I'm on the right side would a jury agree. It's been charity

he was alone in his makeshift workshop, had to be for what he attended carefully the voice of a boom and two of them just a few inches. He sounded down through the hall, with each one founded wire, the stream between them too thin it doubled. It for strength is perfect weapon for his perfect crime. outside the brilliant sunshine. It was the sombre Viking seventy nine- the hadn't happened to us yet nor the internet, nor cell phone. Norway to read DNA. All of those things were still years away

everybody worried about three mile island last summer, the iranian hostage crisis was still months away and in southern California, in the summer of seventy nine in the beach towns that cling to the co their near twenty somethings came from all over the world to play the practice, an art as old as humans, as new was last night making the area had a ski club, snow skiing waters gain volleyball all sorts of outdoor activities. Richard Frank with thirty two that summer he published an independent community newspaper but on weekends, We do bus trips and guys are trying to meet girls and hit on people. It was a lot of fun, one woman in particular caught Richards. I we had a thing called Queen and she was running for snow queen and she didn't when, but she

A very outgoing gregarious, tomboy kind of personal, attractive, her name Lynn Light, she neonatal nurse. So many here came from somewhere else. In her case it pretty place called Stratford far from Toronto, Canada. She was beautiful, beautiful person. This is little sister daughter she was Jim. Carry before Jim carry with, ever round she did the goofy stuff and everywhere people would be an stitches nurses.

whether funny and beautiful or not were in great demand. The seventies Lin could have gone anywhere for stay close to home, like her sister Donna. Also a nurse chose to do. I had such difficulty when she was going to go to California. I did not want her to go, but she did moved into a tiny studio apartment tacked onto the back of somebody's garage here in suburban torrents, and she signed up at the hospital called little Company of Mary, where she to work with the smallest patients of all the most vulnerable. Premature babies were her baby. She took her job very seriously. She would arrive early, she would do devil shares our wounds, work paid off the hospital. Can.

After one of it's top employees. She was a finalist and a nursing contest called Miss Red rose. How she did it all is a wonder, worked hard and played hard. She would work midnight shift so and then sleep for about three or four hours and then she'd. Gone and scuba diving marathon and running you name it. Lynne was the most incredible tomboy ever one more thing: she loved the company of men, many of them, perhaps most of them, were just France, some for them a number of them were racquetball players are skiers or whatever, so she had a lot of male friends because she was competitive in racquetball. So more friends and they were romantic partners,

you actually without really with professionals and our good looking professionals and then, of course, she met Richard Frank. We hit it off pretty quickly. We dated pretty heavily for a couple of months could be confusing, of course, for Richard, not many young women with as many male friends as the crowd of them. The hovered around lift her sweethearts ass. She called them. One of the things was trying to find out where I fit in her life, but with Richard has been told her sister it was romance. Was she perhaps a little intense Richards thirty two year old, single self. Yes, she was, there was a little too much getting even her sister Donna said that incite kind of cut it so she was just a little going too fast as yeah, but has a way of circling back

towards the end of that summer of seventy nine after they ve been apart for a while. They ran into each other again on a waters. I saw her and we started talking and we decided you know. Ok, let's go out and it was like for me was when they got away, and then it was August. Twenty nine a warm summer evening outside Lynn's little studio apartment an end to avenue quite calm about a breath of wind lien was cooking chinese food. She had company a male friend, who'd come for dinner, a male friend who was not Richard Frank know. This was an ex boyfriend named. Georgie Russo after dinner linen Joe drank some wine talked about what we cannot know

and then at eleven thirty or so he laughed and plan went to bed early shifted the hospital outside the street beside Wednesday ticked into Thursday. That's when the neighbors heard it couldn't help, but here a high pitched green and it came from Lynites little apartment It was a scream that would go down through the years and change. many lives. My whole world crashed in thirty five years later, the scene and that of our ban would still leave a hardened homicide detective in two years. Me,

The scream was almost beyond human. Shrill heroin echoing through the quiet neighbourhood, announcer Avenue, the man next door called nine one. One you know who live there, the torrents Valise arrive minutes later. The little apartment was quiet, Lynn night was dead, lying on her bed in a pool of blood detective at me well had never seen anything quite like this terrible, bloody and

can't find other words to describe it other than horrific, so horrific said be detective Gary Chosen, but even now talking about it is difficult to achieve man out of all the ones I worked was toughest. No wonder the had been stabbed more than a dozen times pointing toward what rage the desire to see this particular individual dead, Gooden dead, good and dead, but there was another set of wounds that attacked is couldn't quite, throughout at first deep cuts on her neck, which may have explained the horrifying sound that woke up Lynn's neighbors. How do they describe that screaming of a squeal, a loud squeal

after he heard that at a neighbor he caught a glimpse of the man who might have been the killer. Slender young men with dark curly hair not much to go on a looked at back on this aspect as he ran. down the driveway into the street, carrying something of small satchel, but there couldn't have been much inside that little black bag, because very little was taken from loons apartment, only her wallet or keys, and one particular piece of jewelry. She had a necklace on pendant at this and we found that broken clasp and pendant, but no chain no chain, but killer, left something of his own behind somebody, detectives didn't notice. Until the coroner Move Linz body,

it appeared to be a homemade device used to strangle a victim. It was cut off portions of what appeared to be a broom or mop handle and a piece of wire going between the two. Yes, so there is some planning involved. Oh there's a great deal of planning involved as the homemade garage at gut, rot detective Gary Hilton hadn't, seen one of those since he served in Vietnam and certainly never at a crime scene. But now he understood why Linz Neck was cut so deeply. Did he actually he put it around her neck is fear she turned over to. That would be an understatement that it was time for what was perhaps the most difficult part of all of us, making the phone call the lens family, a little Stratford entourage

a family which, until that very moment had assumed that their precocious daughter was perfectly safe, babies in LOS Angeles, when sister Donna was getting off her shift at a Toronto hospital got a call from my brother in law, and he was and gulping for air and having you know practically out of his skin, and he said that to her hey, I hate to have to tell you, but ah Lin's been stabbed to death and it was like. Was such a sad day, it's not something you ever would expect to hear, no matter what? No, no, no. It was, like my whole world crash stand, and that was that it was completely life altering. My life has never ever been this

sets Donna was twenty six only recently out of nursing school had even take a thing like tat in all it does you go like it's like totally out of body and you go into shock it. It's complete shock. It's like also a great big hole in your chest. Who would have done such a thing to lose? the kind and passionate nurse not an enemy in the world, but then, before dawn a concrete police saw someone suspicious running in Linz neighbourhood. The same the neighbors saw black bag. They picked him up and by the look of it with blood literally on his hands a clue, founded the strangest place, I saw

what an invitation was crumpled up in the trash party. would never get a chance to a ten who throughout the invitation and why In the sometimes cops, get lucky this was recorded in the breed on hours of August. Thirty of nineteen, seventy nine. Just after the brutal murder of last night unit detained and arrested in individual who was acting strangely nearby. Look like he have blood on, he did. His name was Gerardo, whereas the appeared to match it a script, of the man seen running away from Linz apartment

whereas for questioning, but before they got to that they had to finish processing the crime scene and balloons apartment? I found evidence blood smears in the house. It looked like it was cause gloves- and there was no dna, of course at we didn't have DNA. All the blood donor found was consistent with the victim. Remember this with nineteen seventy. Nine years before the advent of dna finger prints were still the gold standard. Back, but only Linz Prince right, edified in her apartment. The others could not be traced back to the murder, and apparent murder weapon. The garage was clean of prince

Well, there was planning a lot of it and immense brutality, but burglary. No only small personal items were taken. Detective, sparrows and Hilton are pretty sure it could mean only one thing: the suspect knew the victim. She had been targeted, and I say that because the location was quite removed from the street was not a place where there were passers by someone would have to know how to go back there in order to to reach the door so that detectives went back to the torrent speedy, to talk to their possible suspect. RO, whereas he insisted he didn't know. Glyn had never even seeing her had no reason to kill her. A search of his home turned up nothing that blood on his hands and close. It proved not to be blood, but was it could have been something like paint dirt mud? We just simply couldn't tie him to the crime scene.

so much for that break Gerardo, whereas was released, and for the moment at least they were nowhere. A few days after the murder, a small funeral was held in Stratford Ontario. They ve been planning to have a wedding than dollars. Lynn was supposed to have been here alive. As our sisters, maid of honor they do

stir in her maid of honor dress. I remember feeling shocked or anger to who ever did that for my sister, my parents, watching my parents grief. What has he done to my baby? The coroner's report answered some questions. An autopsy determined the garage did not kill Lynn, she died of Stab wound and the report revealed something else, traces of two semen sample but again, dna testing was not available back them, so they could not attach identities. To those seem examples, so you began their talk, everything that was where we started the circle of friends. Acquaintances. Her job

anybody that new her include all her current and former boyfriends racquetball partners, ski buddies work. Colleagues, we need time to develop a little bit of background on all of the various players so that we'd have some idea. What questions to ask any one of whom could have been the one anyone. New Richard Frank had already called the police diver his help and was pretty quickly eliminated, He had an alibi, but about that all flame Joe Rousseau. Here without a doubt, in Linz apartment just hours before she was killed. The neighbours M there eating dinner Joe told the detectives. Lynde was fine when he left about midnight. Didn't that make you think that he might be assessed.

Oh yeah. He was, of course somebody we had investigate immediately. They took Joe in for questioning each you seem very forthcoming and if he wasn't deeply up at about what happened to Lin. He was putting on a good act until the detectives noticed something strange on his fingers several cuts. He insisted they happened at work in a lab where he dropped a test tube. He would never hurt Lin, he told them That's no reason for jealous rage. He was in a relationship with another woman and was still visiting our victim and apparently we're friends by the timeline was murdered, said Joe. He was in bed with his girlfriend. What to make of the story? Tellers alibi could be checked Georgie original remain the only possible suffer at this time when the euro

the nation have been under way for almost two weeks. The night family food aware lays a grim task of packing Linz personal belongings we felt, we really. This is not nice to say, but we hated America for would happen to live in and we didn't want anybody touching her stuff, and so we as a team, cleaned up her place and it was a really hard job. We collected all her keepsakes and Momento, even her financial records, which says a lot about Lynn. The summon her bank was all of eighteen dollars cause she paid for scuba, diving lessons and you name it. She just did it. She was packing in every activity should possibly packing so

is she really lived a lot in those twenty eight years? But there was one thing: Donna didn't find something that was quite special to both sisters, the invitation to her upcoming wedding and then Detective Hilton remembered he spotted it in a waste basket, though he didn't collected as evidence. I saw this wedding invitation. there was a crumpled up. Didn't seem like a big deal at now. Towers await an invitation, At her name on it, there was crumble up in the trash and that's when we went and wouldn't do that. My grandparents picture was right there, their wedding pictures, so we knew something wasn't right and also for his crumpled up, who also have the motive to crumple up somebody who was ticked off that they weren't coming to this wedding.

Dove enough to actually Q lint knight. Who was it he was left off. Yes, based an old boyfriend tells a startling story. Is it also valuable, blue it's almost surreal. Knowing that the incident happened and maybe in related somehow to the crime, hmm This was home, lovely little Stratford Ontario, we're Lynite, grew up the place. She intended return for her sister Donna's impending buddy, no wedding. We had to cancel the wedding and it was just so horrible.

this was to be a happy time and unhappy about those days. But the wedding did offer an odd clue of sort, Lynn's invitation which had been found crumpled up in her wastebasket. The question was: would she have rankled it up or thrown it in the trash or did the suspect to it? The detectors were convinced that Linn's killer knew her or maybe wanted revenge for something I couldn't imagine who that might be, who would slaughter and and somebody that to that degree and if they didn't have a motive, a hatred, something two weeks into the investigation, the only potential suspect was Lynn's former boyfriend, Joe Gio Russo. He was with her

just hours before she died. He had cuts on his fingers and then the detectives discovered something else hadn't. He had a physical altercation with Lynn at some point. There was a situation where she was beaten up, so they brought Joe back in road him again he swore it wasn't a beating at all, but a minor thing: slap during and argue afterwards. He and Lynn remain close friends besides Joe and his girlfriend they were in bed together. When the murder happen, they volunteered to take a polygraph and asked soon after that, Giorgio Russo, who, after all look anything like the man the neighbour saw after the attack was eliminated as a suspect. In fact, one by one just about all Linz male friends came up clean and and I want to do whatever they could to help find her killer. They all had good

They say that there was unusual to talk to twelve men, who dated or newer- and nobody has had a bad word- that of course include as Europe verdict New BO, richer Frank who had rekindled his romance with lean just a week before her murder. It was its devastating its somewhat surreal, knowing that the incident happened, and maybe it related somehow to the crime. The incident Richard told police about a bizarre and cut. He and only had a couple of months earlier at her apartment, a guy. She once David, stopped by to drop off a lamp yet bore any where's that they affect. Excuse me thank you and he left, but minutes later he was back. and he comes in and start Gian adder these corner whore

and took the lab and threw it over our heads and was pretty violent. all of this and then left You can hear the tires squeal. What was that all about, and she explained it somebody that she's been trying to cut it off with wind, told Richard, but the guy's name was and the updated for a few months. But just the day before Richard came to call, she broke off proudly dark, didn't it so well that particular night, do you remember her reaction, then? Obviously she was scared. Scary to you, too. I was concerned US concern for Lynn. In the days it followed. The incident seem to be forgotten, at least as far as

was concerned, and she had this call mean way of of taking big things and making small things out of them. She was in control later on. She explained that he knows she calmed him down on the phone a couple of times and after that incident yeah and she thought it was kind of taken kara. Detectives were intrigue. They found means address book in her purse. Only one dog dog Bradford. Based on a about you and she vaguely remembered something Lynn mentioned in a letter saying that debt was no longer coming to the wedding, ok and that he was on the back no man, I just sort of put it out of my mind, because I had all this wedding and

organised. I knew where the obviously it he didn't tell lighter fire too much. This was the first bit of heating and cooling. True they gave dog call. He lived with his parents. He sounded shy but agree to meet at the house where it turned out Doug Bradford at a loss to say it's a kind of trick, cops always used in the movie. We're not gonna. Tell em instead see it works in real life the It was a less congested drive in those days back and seventy nine, the crews down the freeway from torrents to Costa Mesa California. This the working class mid, section sprawling orange

Detectives Gary Hilton Emilio, peruse part in front of a modest house where twenty When you're old engineering student named Doug Bradford lived with his parents, he seemed somewhat meek somewhat soft spoken out of a neat Nick quarter. Guy nerdy kind of character. You could say that an engineering type of person, nothing about Doug, Bradford, made him look or sound or act like a potential suspect he was thirty. A smart and pretty civilized guy are the only the cool thing about Doug was his car, a bright orange see lust worthy back in seventy nine. Still. According to Richard Frank, this same Doug have engaged in a very uncivilized lamp, drawing tantrum loons apartment, so he was

They had to look at his eyes at some point. Lin was something of a big deal and Doug's life. She had spent Easter at his home with his family. They were fairly close, the fact that he would have entered used, lend his family, as is somewhat telling This is a serious relationship. I think he wanted to to be Lynn too, apparently, but why else which even invited him to tag along to her sister down his wedding up in Canada? So knowing that much we back of the freeway something else you need to know we detective mine was oddly creative, sometimes in ways other cops didn't quite get Hilton. knowing the case, hadn't got much news coverage had to plan on the way to the interview. We're not gonna tell him that she's dead and there we were there, and again on missing persons.

It's a friendly chat about a missing woman missing ex girlfriend. If he was involved in the murder, How might we react to that? Give something away? Maybe worse, giving up Miranda rights when he was in his own home, he was voluntarily cooperating. He could have stopped interview at any time, but he opted not to do that. He wanted to speak and he did so as to protect is what did they do when they dated he and land? We go out to dinner. Quite a bit worried. I took her sailing, we went skiing locally here, go out and go dancing as for the relationship, it was exclusive sector more or less to go out with the other men on. Well, not to the best of my knowledge, at least when I was dating her. She used to kid me about it and say no

you don't have anything to worry about yeah. I guess she might have gone out man with Van. It was just fun, said the actor lots of laughs, but he never did considered to be the love of his life and sure enough. He said she wasn't say which one of the two of you more it's about breaking off the relationship. I think that was more decisive violence just kind of going along with it I saw that the relationship with an income That became very obvious out in palm Springs one weekend a few months into their relationships at Doug. Just didn't seem to be clicking anymore, We decided that we should go our own ways, and that was a that was the last time you saw him.

but wait unless Richard Frank was lying. Doug showed up at Linz placed the very next day to return. A lamp saw richer and flew into a re showing the lamp across the room to what about that? They asked up. There was no rage at all. He said disappointment, maybe well I don't know I was really mad. I was just more upset about it. She was we're jumping from one relationship to the next. So I left my last title and then Doug said something kind of strange. Remember DA detective Hilton had decided not to tell them that Lynn was dead rather that she was missing. Listen to this. I do have reason to to ever see her again. I wanna see you again. Did something I want

when she's dead. Why would he say that the cops didn't follow up, worried, Bradford might clamor, then, as detectors were about to grill Bradford concerning his whereabouts, the night then supposedly went missing an unfortunate surprise. The tape recorder started making some strange sounds. Oh boy, and when it failed, we had to stop so they waited a few days. Did some research and dug Bradford discovered he liked to play jazz on the piano some experts sailor. In addition to his engineering studies and his team you like to make things he was accomplished, Donna didn't like him much not a good fit for line. I can see why she would have not wanted to go with brown.

For it because you, it wasn't her usual type, but it was a rebound relationship bob. What mattered now with dogs alibi if he had one soldier, drove down because to me so again worried he refused to see them or demand a lawyer, but he didn't instead, Doug Bradford told them a story of his. Which forty miles and miles from the murderer at night breadfruit alibi, much safer now. He saw my shoulder Why

Torrents police detectors we're little Surprise Duck Bradford agreed to talk to them a second time here. They are back in coastal Mesa with their new recorder again diagnosed How he and Lynn had once been close. He liked to buy her presence well. Actually I didn't give it to her helped her while she that caught the car attention a necklace which just happened to be the one piece of jewelry that appeared to be missing from Linz apart, ended and class, were collected but no chain interesting but now the real reason they were here to find out. Where Douglas The night wind was murdered, asshole

I was here and I the sailing in the We hours of the morning in the dark alone out there on the Pacific Ocean Odd, maybe but for all Doug belong to a local sailing club, so he had access to a sailboat. Any old time he wanted one that night said Doug he took out a thirty foot sloop a special type of using both known as a shield well the sales as well started off on the sale. Coming back to the pot of power, Fatima,

which was right around the time. Men was me. much safer, he. His saw shoulder this going out by himself Thirty foot slipped with no motor right, no motor no auxiliary power, as he put it. I knew dog was, and experts said he knew how to paddle the shield, but the detectives didn't like it. This is too perfect too weird alibi. Didn't sense to me then- and it doesn't make sense to me now so they paid a visit to the boat club where Doug claimed to have set sail that we obtained one of the rare it's showing that he had signed out for the boat they asked. Another skipper was a thirty foot shields abode.

Old sailor could handle along, and his comment was: oh yeah. You could, You could sell this by so that was the alibi, a pencil mark in a sailboat schedule book Doug claims that he sailed alone that night. He could never But was anybody who actually saw him? Take the boat, He said he was the only one there. Maybe nobody saw Doug sailing, but we're reports. He was seen driving in front of Linz apartment just days before the murder. That was interesting because remember, dark, told detectives. He cut off all contact with land after them. So they checked. Neighbours showed them forward What does it is too easy, and I got a witness to identify Mr Bradford as the person who had been seen

driving back and forth in front of the residents looking up the driveway. He wouldn't leave her alone. He wouldn't leave her alone. As a matter of fact, he stalked her stalker. Now before the murder, which might explain, said her sister done, why Lin stayed with a number of male friends for several nights before the murder? I know that the last week of her life, it looks like she and I slept with a lot of man and that that's not true. When I look at the the pattern, my sister was afraid she was scared to maybe go to. Eighty c would yield a clue for detectives a warm welcome, but it was just as clean as a whistle. There was no evidence at all none that we were able to recover and there was no blood found

There was no sign of of anything air and whoever attacked her would have been covered with blood. You would conclude that yes, but the cops couldn't help but notice the smell in that two. Eighty z one way opening up purchase an overwhelming smell of armour. All it had just been cleaned detail. How is it clean car? And after that there was no talking to doubt Bradford, and more and I received a phone call from on return, Sarah was representing the Bradford Hand, TAT made it don't do anything. in regard to my client, unless you call me first, it seem pretty clear that you're after him, was number one, as I put it. So the detectives took their case to the d, with a request to charge Doug Bradford with murder all the Georgia attorneys pretty much said there

wasn't enough. They needed that a call to smoking gun. We were sent back and told her. do additional investigation and bring it back which they did. But always the answer was the same. That hurt that hurt. Well, you couldn't put that guy in that room on that night. True, it was heavily circumstantial. It wasn't just the detectives who were disappointed I was convinced Doug Bradford killed her sister, but she wasn't hold your breath for justice to be done. I said to my mom there's not going to be arrest for twenty twenty five years or more. I just know mom just get used to it. It's not going to happen. He was certainly right about that after three years Nineteen. Eighty two, the investigation into the murder of last night, was classified as inactive. Nice way.

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If ever died like that, as the eighty rolled out, their own catalogue of horrors, aids, drugs, urban decay, rampant didn't growing crime Donna, to keep her sisters memory from sinking under the weight of so many other troubles. She wrote letters, lots of them. And enlisted limb to help I gotta, let that nice picture of Lynn pasted therein. I that sell yourself when here go I'm just going to send it, and you said them were of a governor, the F B. I I have nothing to lose. You even wrote to who Ronald Reagan? Yes, that I got to go to key decision makers, but she was shouting. in detectives, Hilton and perils retired, not happy about. They left behind this one weighed on on me for quite a long time it now

in the back of your head. You don't want to leave a homicide case. Undone, that's just the throng Leave detective Gary held them. Second guest himself endlessly still does a cut of Ben all a bit more is done all of it more. I just I dunno last night just a little personally on Tibet I didn't know we're alive, occasionally a new set of it It is with dust off the file and tell Donna they were of domestic about cracking selling was just like all here. We go again, but I remember one detective saying to me:

We just have to wait until it kills again, and I went no. No. This is not going to happen. This is not going to happen. it has got to be an answer. A Doug Bradford, the man cops long suspected of murdering Luna. He did quite well for himself owned a successful high tech company, a nice house in California, at a young wife, and Richard Frank, remember him. The man leaned started seeing again just days before her death. He too had moved on, got married, raised a family owned, a successful newspaper business, but occasionally thought about it and what I drove by the neighbourhood a lot because I worked in that area, so that would a constant reminder. I just wondered yeah, I call the detectors

every once in a while anything new, nearly two decades went by it was eighteen. Ninety seven someone sound a little extra money for the torrents police department to open a coal case. when we first opened this detail. We started looking at about thirty cases, and this was one of the very first ones we did and that's when detective Jim Wallace heard about Liam from her sister Donna well as slate's to work crimes with his brain, he cerebral, but what he saw of that file hit the baser level the cases I've worked. I must tell you this is the most horrific and powerful terrifying crime scene. I've ever seen there's something about the horror that Lynn went through, that

EL evident in the crime scene that goes to the sea, was still there ghosts, maybe but virtually no hard evidence. So Wallace went back to the beginning and took a good look at Lynn and the company she kept. Wallace re interviewed all of Linz surviving boyfriends. They were very happy with the kind of relationship they had with land. Never would tell you that, except for two about whom Lake no Giorgio Joe Russo, the man she invited in for dinner. The last night of her life had since died away to talk to him, and then there was dug Bradford the Ex boyfriend who, through the lamp and was seen driving near lids apartment days. for her murder and had offered that odd alibi about sailing and paddling a thirty foot. In the middle of the night. I think. There's

is a rational element and in these kinds of circumstantial cases, because anything is possible, but not anything is reasonable, and this case was one of those we really have to ask. Is it possible that somebody would go out on a boat at ten thirty at night or absolutely? Is that right? apple, no Wallace good, see why the initial investigation focused on Bradford wouldn't be easy she knew was catnip for deputy district attorney John Lewis, The cases that I enjoy are lots of little pieces and if I get too big of a piece- and it's not is as challenging. You know to work so loo and read the file to right away. It looked at him like Joe Jia, Russo could have been the killer. Then he listened to those original nineteen. Seventy nine interviews what Bradford did

I was a hundred percent, confident that he was our guy on it wasn't just the fact that his statement was so creepy and so incriminating. It was when you mix that, with his alibi was absurd. The fact that was the only person in her life that had motive but proving it creepy and absurd, or not exactly legal terms,

his boss. The district attorney would laugh, loo and out of his office. We didn't come up with something new to connect Bradford to the crime so bit by bit over years, Leeuwen and Wallace and its partners work the case like a big jigsaw puzzle with missing the pieces, but one didn't quite fit such a brutal crimes committed by a dirty engineer. One of the big problems that I had was when you looked at Doug Bradford. He looked like a normal, regular guy who could next door to this is a guy who builds a weapon to go over to murder and then mutilate someone after their dead in my twenty years and this one of the worst scenes. I I've ever encountered that weapon the homemade wire and would derive had been a mute, resin the evidence locker for a long long time. Wallace couldn't stop looking at it as if it could talk

The whole goal in these cases right is trying to see. The theme is hiding in plain sight, so the killers go wrought was made with wooden cows that were connected by a very thin piece of wire, a double strength. We double Why would you double it because, apparently, you recognize this is so thin is probably going to break of it by itself. So why not just use thicker wire? Well, that makes sense to me that you're, using something that's available to you does is not ideal, but you happen to have it on hand. So I'll just settle for it same thing. With the handles, like the killer cut pieces from a household brew, we could see forever. Wiggly blue specks of paint that are almost been sanded off completely, but not completely. So I'm just thinking this looks like something that you're making from available materials and that's what gave us the idea wow. Maybe these available materials are disjunct, is still lying around. Let's just take a look and see Doug Radford moved out of that house years earlier, bud

he's elderly mother still lived there. Is it possible that some of the simple building materials you used to building a rod might still be too the way in some old drawer stuck in the side of the garage, its wears a look well, on his partner around the idea by deputy the aid Louis who liked it the best case scenario? we actually fine, you know the same wire. The same Dowling ran to that seven, they serve the warrant, but really then, nearly three decades of bad. So what in the world with a fine little House in Costa Mesa, the something old. What are the odds of anyone? Keeping that locked something new? She would know about his relationship with land

Some people are just really bad at taking a hint now that I won't take no for an answer by the time the Christmas lights went up in torrents, California and of to them Seven Lynite had been lying in the coal canadian ground for twenty eight years. murder. Investigation had gone and empty circles for a decade and though, neither the agent Leeuwen nor Detective, Jim Wallace seemed capable of giving up on it. They couldn't charged are Bradford with murder based on mere suspicion. So one last effort they got a warrant to warrants. Actually, first Wallace and his partner went to pay a surprise, visited Doug bread for its current house

with a hidden microphone. They asked him about Linz. Kids, I would have guessed TAT was all I had nothing more to wonder if we could have a few moments. I see what you remember from backers having I've. Well, I've been advised by council not to have any further discussions about that really, which was just the reaction. The detectives expect so they showed him their search warrant and said about poking around snapped a few pictures of the place and wanna die sitting and steaming in his living room. They found several firearms, all legal and in a file cabinet to articles on polygraph tests. Odd that can seventy nine Doug initially agreed to take one and then changed his mind. And then Next to that file was another file that had a brochure on across bow and then even more disturbing,

literally a manual on how to home make how to build a crossbow. So again with some an interesting separated, make crossbow? Well what it it was whether he made the crossbow or not I'm pretty confident. Came in your house right now. I wouldn't fine manuals and how to make exotic weapons there was nothing in Doug's house related to that other exotic weapon, the garage so what little optimism the detectors brought with them began to evaporate, but they had a second warrant warning number for the very place Doug lived when Lynn Knight was murdered. His father had died, but his mother enormous well lived in the same house all these years later, probably all nineteen. Seventy nine murder case that

we are revisiting, visited Bradford was no slouch but see this might be trouble for dug a woman doesn't stop being a mother just because your son is fifty six We knew there might be a number of things she could tell us if she would know about his relations with when not had new met this nurse Oh he did now that was interesting. We had two stories in essence, a story from dug in nineteen Seventy nine that really this was not a relationship he cared about about. She offered that Doug really thought this was as keeper somebody. She really thought she had something special here with him and he was attracted to her

that way, then, as they filed that mug it away, they looked around and couldn't help achieve a veritable gallery of oil painting. He hung around the house. Norma revealed that the artist was her. She loved to paint and both are late, husband and dark took pride in. being hanging them. She had one room that was basically a small museum of her paintings. The paintings hold the glue, Wallace suddenly turned art collector, and decided to take a few of them to the police station and then they went out enormous garage, all kinds of old stuff lying around. Looked like but he had shown anything away for quite a while and tucked away in the corner there. They were. We found a number of wooden dolls and now

opinion? Only one was and it was blue and it was a broom handle, so we collected it who would have believed it? Almost thirty years later, it seemed pretty obvious that the room handle used to make the garage was still there. The broom handle was blue, the garage handles had been sanded down, but specks of paint still clung to them blue paint. Oh gosh, we were so excited, we had expectations, that's why I run a warrant, but we didn't expect those expectations to be met with the actual wood DOW that was used to build. I mean what what are the odds of anyone, keeping that I launcher, but it looked old, but there there's your case. We thought this was going to be a pretty good piece of evidence. The kind of what it is that the greening, if we were that excited all Wallace needed, was a testing lab to confirm it

and Prosecutor John Lewin would finally have the evidence he needed to file the case. So we were thinking okay and you looked at it. It's blue paint, it's a dow. You know you have it. It's theirs cut one in the garage it looked like they were going to be. The same. Lumen was excited, but also disturbed by what he saw When you compare the two doll samples you notice that the one from the garage had been sanded person gets a chill when the mine registers a thing like that. Why? When you take the time to Santa down and the answers just horrible horrified when he made the killer, made this weapon because as he's enjoying the process of I'm making this weapon that I'm gonna use to wrap round her neck and killer. This is aware, in that someone took time to make and that someone really cool about I'm gonna, perfect it, but now

here it was the evidence that could put Doug Radford at the crime scene. They said the samples to a specialised land outside Chicago for comparison testing. We are expecting that we're gonna get a match, but we did in the lab report was unequivocal. These were do distinctly different dowells. They did not ouch. Now. Suddenly there was no case it was, you know, was getting kicked in there in the stomach. I can t we were deflated beyond words, and so the expectations we had then, when we had no match was that this case was that maybe the wood wasn't a match, but maybe something else was I went down to the local harbour storm such eagerness. Fine pitcher anywhere

the over ten years of effort and they were right back at Square one, at which point it would make perfect sense. Frankly, to give it up stuff, the Lynn I file back into the purgatory of unsolved cases or not. I started to kind of look at the case to say: well what do we have? Jim Wallace picked himself up from his disappointment and poked around. the bits and pieces he might be able to build into a case like the bit that never made sense to win Doug Bradford Alibi, who sales of thirty foot racing sleep alone at night, and then is able to paddle it back in the alibi, checked out way back and seventy nine, but still some alibis can be fate. Candy was this one?

let us take a crash course in voting to find out and sought any skip. he could find who knew something about sailing back in nineteen. Seventy nine- and I call every one of them, an interview them and asked only about showing teach me one of his teachers with Charlie Abbot wants an officer in the very same saving plug the dog used to belong to and where the shields racing boat Doc sailing at night after ten p and southern California is kind of a fool's errand fishing. It is hard to sail alone. To begin with, and at night you need it's. So if you're going out in California the summertime How can it be anyone at all or a very little bit? Sailors have an expression, no blood I'll go means. If there's not enough. Wind go and sailing bites. Dog was an expert after all,

Anybody could sale at your son said he could listen again to his version of what happened that night out in the dark persists. we started off on. They sailed back you're, not accounting, laughter. If it's not windy. Already in ten thirty and you're standing at that dock and you're, asking yourself wow, is there enough wind for me to sail? I can maybe barely get out dude, did you get better when you get out there and if I thought you said not that's crazy. As a matter of fact, that's the one thing that was a consistent statement from every sailor. Would you do this now? not to mention the paddling is to turn the boat with one little or who could do that on the ocean in the Dar near there,

dogs, name on the reservation, form a clear record that he looked at the boat. The night Lynne was killed. So next question. Could he have fake tis saving reservation that night, as a club member Doug did have access to the region, in the book, so he could have inserted his name even a couple of days after the murder didn't mean he did, but he could have, but then they discovered something with Doug's name all over it very entry. All the reservations from nineteen, seventy nine so? It was just serendipitous. We we had them and we found him because

when Wallace reviewed all of Doug Sailboat bookings. What do you know? There was a very distinctive pattern: Doug consistently reserved the boat on weekends, the first week that he begins to change as reservation pattern is the week of the murder, the fact that there's nobody who ever reserves the boat for a post, sunset sale, except for one person, Doug Bradford on the night of the murder. Now that could be useful evidence. may weaken Doug's alibi, but conviction material. Now, that's where possible dna. It was all that sat around the apartment and those two seamen samples recovered from Lynn. With dna testing now available, they connect something at the crime scene to Doug Brad tax went out. They got samples from all the boyfriends, including, of course dog who was served with another search warrant at his house, this time seeking swab of his.

Eliza Life opportunity for us to say you're, not a guy assist, move on. I thought that had already been determined by The DNA results came in from all of Lynn's old lovers and male friends, and none of them match the dna from the crime scene, including Doug Bradford. It definitely was problematic because, unfortunately, the more testing we were doing, we were getting dna, so there was dna at the scene. Mature belonged to many rules, but not if it wasn't him so yea? It was definitely disappointing and I knew that what

really needed was some piece of new evidence on their would help sobbing physical, something forensic they could take to the l, a county district attorney. You have to sell us thing to your bosses yeah I do I do, but still Wallace could not get his mind off at the right. He must have missed something. Wallace now went to his own workshop and started tinkering made Europe garage and then another and another to understand the mindset of the killer and the materials used. He examined the wire very closely. Then he looked again at the pictures. Doug other painted and the wire Doug used to hang them. Both. Irish were the same type. Something called grade number one. Eight strand braided

wire. That's the kind of wire used in the garage, and that's also the kind of wire that Doug's mom was using to hang many of her paintings. An exciting discovery. Well, maybe, but like the dolls, it could also be pure coincidence how to tell as I thought about us awhile, I wonder how rare that why are really is so? I went down to the local hardware store and I said, gee lunacy. If it can find picture hanging wire, I found some but not number one braided, but I couldn't find it anywhere. And I started calling those manufacturers to ask of deep. I sell a thinner, wire, very uncommon variant. Come so uncommon that of all the picture hanging, I sold this particular wire only accounts for one to six per cent of sales. It's that rare. Yet that's what's being used to build the garage, and that happens to also be what Doug had access to because of his mom's painting, not like DNA, of course, but what they call it

class match. Was it enough, along with everything else, to get Lewis to take the case to court? I had done with we're gonna wire with the work on the alibi with work on the garage I felt we had a viable case. I brought it to John Vow. at this point a more conservative prosecutor might have told him. Forget it, but Lujan Lujan likes tough, circumstantial cases. He said. Yes and took the case to his boss at the district attorney's office, the decision to file a case was based on well, it was based on everything, and so in May two thousand and nine. Almost thirty years after Lynn's murder, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Douglas Gordon Bradford word traveled fast to Canada, and there was message call detective Wallace, and I tell you it was electric lecture, there's so much electricity in the air and the church wind chimes on my

verandah we're just roaring away like crazy and it just. Why now add the arrest it was like. Yes, they got him. They finally got him the maybe quite possible Louis. But now more than he could choose this time because for it had hired one of the most prominent that experience defence attorneys in the land. a man who had one more than his share of high profile cases clearing celebrity clients who face much deeper odds? then, a middle aged engineer named Bradford I asked him: do you have an attorney? Does he have a name yet What's his name, Bob Bob

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I did say one thing, which certainly got detective Wallace's attention. I asked him: do you have an attorney yeah? Does he have a name yeah? What's his name Bob said: okay, last name. I have his card and sure enough of card out as Robert Shapiro out his Robert. Yes, that Robert, that than this lawyer who represented Oj Simpson the man who founded legal, is that legal, zoom, dot com. We put the law on your side. Thank you, here was a true courtroom. Celebrity Robert Shapiro impact in law for nearly fifty years, had represented scores of Hollywood, rich and famous, including of course, Oj Simpson though J will do everything he can to cooperate with them to help solve this horrible murder, one almost

the years now, since he helped engineers Simpsons acquittal of the infamous trial of the century. Lynn sister daughter was well aware, Shapiro reputation. I certainly wasn't going to be intimidated by Robert Shapiro. Maybe she should have been Shapiro Shapiro stepped in Bradford was out on bail within hours the outlook for the trial. If there was a mountain of evidence against OJ circumstantial bits and pieces piled up against that Radford amounted to a photo, maybe nice. If we had a piece of physical evidence that will lock it in or a witness, you could say. Oh I saw him leaving as that so and so that we never have, those being completely circumstantial? Loon was eager to get the trial, but the defence not so much

Robert Shapiro thought the evidence insufficient to charge Doug Bradford or put on trial at all. So he paper the court with motions seeking to have the case dismissed even its age and the lack of new physical evidence and though his request I they took time lots of time, but year went by then two and five Bradford Room free on bail, as the case credit slowly word trial. What

two thousand miles north across the border, Donna waited patiently in Canada bracing for a trial over three decades. In the making this coldest of cold case, it wasn't called. It's never called to me no then, finally July two thousand and fourteen it had taken thirty five years to get here. L a The court room department, one oh three story: defence Security, Robert Shapiro versus the d, who, like circumstantial cases, Jean Louis, Shapiro had already announced. This would be his very last criminal case. It was also the very last one that detective Jim Wallace his long career he'd be testifying from retirement as a private citizen, a cop no longer boarding, so they all assembled in the very courtroom where

virtue peril help to quit O J Simpson and sitting in the gallery. What was left of Lynites family, though, his mother dead. Almost nine years was certainly I don t mind towards the end. There had a lot of leather daughter talks and she grabbed my head and she goes you caught him kid. I know you got up and down so my mom died knowing it and she knew she knew here for the very first time, Linz family gotta, look at the man accused of killing the man once invited Donnas, Donna's wedding. I really felt I was able to look me in the eye and tat.

say a lot of things in my head that he wasn't hearing and to have a word polite prosecutor, John looked after sale with was perhaps the most completely circumstantial case of his career. He enlisted Co Council Ethan millions to help him with cases like this call cases. You never have one witness you have whole bunch of pieces and on the surface they don't appear to be connected. It's our job to connect them all together. To put it together to give you the final piece, so no smoking gun, but then there really aren't any. The whole thing is a smoking gun, Lewin fired the opening shot. The evidence will show, ladies and gentlemen, beyond any reasonable doubt that this Matt Douglas Bradford on August Thirtieth, nineteen, seventy nine in the Middle

I crept in there with that handmade Garonne God her. While she was sleeping, brutally murdered her, then more than twenty witnesses pervaded by each to recount the memory or offer an opinion. One tiny piece of the whole book call detective Gary Gary Hilton the seventy two now still tormented by his inability to close the case. So in a way he was trying to clear his car I saw the knights body I've never seen anybody so bad off sewers. Slice, diced and birch, I wanted to be there for Lynn. It was all these people talking about her. How great shoe

so I knew I dunno I I knew, or I knew her Donna testified about her sister there and thirty five years of deep suspicion, beginning with what Doug Bradford didn't at the time. Did you notice that one Acknowledgement of condolence was conspicuously absent. Yes, absolutely nothing, not a phone call, nothing! a card from Doug Bradford. Richard Frank looms, large, loving justified about the day. He said he saw Doug Bradford fly into a rage, just after Lynn dropped him. Nobody, ever really seen him violent and I had

Came to the sliding last store and tore off the screen opened up the door, shouted ranted, I think broke a lamp. He was incredibly upset. It was scary, it was jealous rage, so the prosecution age, but inspired dog to make a garage using materials you found in his mother's garage and he's by that story that events only at night, titled at two tonnes, racing boat couldn't have killed Lindh and called several sailing experts from local marinas who testified that the alibi was wildly improbable. It was so absurd that they would almost recoiled in us

going. This is stupid. Why are you asking me this? All the wild duck Bradford watched quietly listened intently seem almost to boot, except perhaps when it came to Donna Is there some stare down competitions? I wanted to look in his eyes, but I really wanted to see in his eyes and his body language whether he killed my sister. Did you see that? Yes, I'm going to get off because I got Shapiro. If that's what he was trying to say, it was not without good cause, because Robert Shapiro had a defense strategy ready featuring a special videotape supporting. Redford's alibi. Take that just might help you him free. What's that the attorney in the spotlight and the jury gets. The last word

when they walked out. I studied their faces, and I went on the now. It was Robert Chip euros turn his last criminal case in this. where he won. Arguably his greatest legal battle against what was labeled, then a mountain physical evidence. Seventy one now still sharp a formidable presence in the courtroom. In this case there were implications accusations, opinion an almost no physical evidence at all

the glaring truth, is where Robert Shapiro began to fashion. What he hoped would be his final victory in criminal court. At least six fingerprints were found no match to dog blood match the dna. The holy GRAIL no match the wire used in the garage. Despite what the process said they couldn't prove was an exact match with the wire found on the back of his mother's paintings, this is why our camp we match, but, above all, such a barrel done Bradford. Wasn't there at Linz apartment the night she was murdered, his alibi was solid. He was sailing that night and then paddling his thirty four chiel we're approved.

The absolutely sure that not only can you paddle the boat, the proof video produced by the Chaparral Office, showing it to TAN shields, boat being paddled by one person just as Doug Bradford claimed he on the night of winds, murder pictures but worth a thousand didn't revealed to the jury. Was it. The footage was all shot on the harbour not far out in the Jim and even the skipper he hired to perform. The paddling admitted on this and that nobody sales of my with no win and then came another stumble, Shapiro famous for tripping prosecution, witness on the stand called his own? Whether expert who testified there, was enough win to sail that night, a breeze

the ten miles an hour, but Louis had done its homework and discovered that some of the wind locations, the experts were nowhere near the area where Doug said he was sailing. Thirty, two, point seven north one, seventeen point five west tell me miles- I was unaware of the torrent for eighty six point. Six miles. Guess what land masses, of course, is to Baja Mexico. Mexico must now give you credit. It's the right kind it. It was a careless I estimate that I made because I didn't look at it carefully enough. The careless mistake, maybe but Shapiro told the jury. It did not change the fact that the prosecution could not and did not prove that Doug Bradford killed when night justice delayed justice denied and now it's time for justice There is an old saying

judge a man until you walk a mile in his shoes, the prosecution gets the last word. Of course. Here's CO council Ethan Lily, fashioned wrong, maybe from hand held crafted fantasized about putting out his more by ending her life and finally, John Louis thirty, five years of getting away with murder, he said had to end he's had his try. It is time it is time that he is held accountable for what he did. He is a murderous monster he needs to be held.

Accountable. It's time. Thank you. Thank you. Miss the driver on his way out of the courtroom, a confident, Doug Radford, startled you're. One question is absolutely Donna forward: do with considerable anxiety and eyes I hope that we get some piece of mine when gets her. Soul has a chance to asked and my mother's as well- and we think in our lives. Whether a pigs I was sitting on our chess one day past nothing from the jury, then to still nothing and then. Finally, the number three at this Jim and down when they walked out. I studied their faces, and I went on

Now we ve lost, we ve lost roaming, one in three people at the State of California birthday, and then the verdict was read me. The jury in the above entitled action find a defendant Douglas, go Radford, guilty of the crime of first degree, murder of Lyn, in violation of Peter Section one. Eighty, seven, a felony as charged come one of the information the Bradford submitted. The handcuffs took a last look at freedom and was led away no family here to weep or cry out or say goodbye. Even his attorney Robert Shapiro conspicuously absent on vacation. It was almost thirty five years to the day after the murder of late night, as he goes to jail world out of jail and tat. This team did the most amazing job that could ever

done this wonderful day. He had so wonderful wonderful day. Thank you, people of LOS Angeles for being such good angels, Jim Wallace, packed away his last and perhaps most difficult case. I felt grateful you don't work for your agency, you don't even work for personal pride in these things, because you're going to work some case regardless you work for victims' families and the end. Those are the want people who come up and give you a hug. Those the people no, you never get closure and Gary Hilton long into his own retirement belts. Finally liberated free of the case that had tortured him for so long. I was thankful FIFA sort of allowed manage to start putting

the case away. Why not, but carrying around that baggage all those years. I want to put it back on on that shelf now time for someone else to carry that burden. The man who caused so much misery in the first place in December, two thousand forty Douglas Bradford was back in court, one more time to be sentenced for the murder of linen night wearing a yellow jail suit, not his business but still defiant, as ever as he indignantly addressed the court. we state very clearly dangerously No, murder, Why

pay someone else crime this is a horrendous, horrendous miscarriage of justice. Thank you for Bradford's words rang hollow with the judge who moments later post, a stiff sentence for both fish for thousands of years, like murder, which all things considered said. John Lewin isn't such a bad deal for Doug Bradford. In the end. What happened in this case was the defendant his parole. Thirty five years early, he lived a life that he never should have had. The right thing happened, He is in prison today. I don't think

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