Left For Dead / On The Case
6/16/202645 min
Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killers. Two persistent cold case detectives wait many years for science and technology to evolve, so they can use the DNA results to investigate the 1990 murder of a woman and the death of a man killed in a car crash in 1988.
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First 90 secondsMarisa Pinson0:00
This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. [tense music] There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories.
Mary Jones· Soundbite0:19
Well, they pull over, and get in the car, and take it from there. Just depends.
Marisa Pinson0:31
In November of 2006, Mary Jones is working as a prostitute in San Diego, California.
Mary Jones· Soundbite0:38
You wanna have some fun, and the price is right. Help me, you know, I gotta do what I gotta do. You know? It's scary, because you don't know who you're getting in the car with.
Marisa Pinson0:47
Jones has worked on the streets for 19 years, and knows the dangers all too well.
Mary Jones· Soundbite0:53
You know, I've had a lot of ugly things done to me out here. I've had guns pulled on me, bats, you know, drove off in fields and woods, and bones broke. You don't know if you're gonna come back dead or alive.
Marisa Pinson1:03
11 years earlier, another prostitute from the same area was murdered after a john turned deadly.
Hugo Martinez· Soundbite1:11
When I get into the area, I saw a piece of wood way laying down on the back.
Marisa Pinson1:17
It's March 22nd, 1995. Hugo Martinez is a gardener for the city of Chula Vista. Just after 7:00 AM, Martinez is working in Louderbach Park when something unusual