Daddy's Girl
4/21/202642 min
She was seventeen years old, competing in her very first beauty pageant, and she was there alone. Her dad called her his girl. Her car's number plate read TOMISH — To Michelle — with the tag line 'Daddy's Girl.' She had told her mum she was going to be President by the time she was thirty-five. She will forever be seventeen.
Michelle Korfman left that Las Vegas shopping mall on a Sunday afternoon in March 1984 with a man who told her she had a big future in modelling. But he wasn't a fashion photographer, he was a serial killer who had been preying on America's most beautiful women for two decades.
Michelle's family spent a small fortune searching for her — helicopters, search parties, 25,000 posters. They never stopped looking.
She was found forty days later but spent another month in the morgue, listed as Jane Doe #39, before dental records finally gave her back her name.
This is Michelle's story, this is her voice - not the killers. Because she was a piano player, a photographer, a daughter, and a dreamer — and she deserves to be remembered as exactly that.
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Credits:
Hosts
Andy Byrne
Mark Llewellyn
Audio Production
Sam Blacker - The Podcast Butler
Resources
The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne - courtesy of Penguin Random House
Thanks to Pro Podcast Studios, Sydney
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[camera clicking] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our Las Vegas beauty contest.
Vince Garcia· Guest0:06
He's in front of everyone. Like, everyone there saw him.
Mark Llewellyn· Host0:10
Here's a guy who's clearly getting his kicks out of going there.
Vince Garcia· Guest0:13
He seemed very calm and normal.
Mark Llewellyn· Host0:15
He's also in the middle of a rampage.
Vince Garcia· Guest0:17
He sounded professional.
Mark Llewellyn· Host0:18
You were sitting next to each other.
Vince Garcia· Guest0:19
Yes.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:20
FBI agents in Las Vegas are still searching for clues to the disappearance of 17-year-old Michelle Corfman.
Vince Garcia· Guest0:26
I can't believe that I was that close to somebody who was just rotten, just evil.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:31
They released a photo today of Wilder attending the beauty pageant where Corfman was last seen.
Speaker 40:37
Catching Evil, episode 15: Daddy's Girl.
Speaker 00:41
And a warning: this podcast contains adult content and listener discretion is advised.
Mark Llewellyn· Host0:48
Hi, I'm Mark.
Andy Byrne· Host0:49
And I'm Andy. Welcome to Catching Evil.
Mark Llewellyn· Host0:52
On April Fools' Day, 1984, serial killer Christopher Wilder is the most wanted man in America, and the FBI is getting closer.
Andy Byrne· Host1:00
They've even employed a financial wizard, tracking him via his gasoline and hotel purchases. We'll hear from him soon.
Mark Llewellyn· Host1:08
But still Wilder is one step ahead, and on April 1, he places himself front and center and is famously photographed at what was then the most dangerous place for any young woman in America to be at: a beauty contest.
Andy Byrne· Host1:23
You're about to hear the chilling testimony from the young man who sat next to him.