Something Snapped / A Killer's Dream
4/21/202645 min
On a summer night in 1987 a mother worries and waits for her 19-year-old daughter to come home. But Diana never comes home and she's found raped and strangled near the Hudson River. Investigators suspect her friend, Michael because his alibi is shaky and witnesses place his truck near the crime scene. Trouble is, he passes a polygraph and his DNA is no match. Nevertheless, Michael remains the chief suspect for 17 years, until DNA fingers another man who offers a chilling story of Diana's last breath. Then, a young family's life is shattered when a San Antonio interior design shop becomes a crime scene. In 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work. The crime remains unsolved for two decades. Then in 2003 detectives reopen the case pegging their hopes on DNA. But when the evidence turns up missing, detectives worry this case could be over before it starts.
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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. [instrumental music plays] There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories. [instrumental music plays] New York State Investigator Dave Madden heads up a team of four men and women who work in a constant stream of murder cases.
Dave Madden0:35
And even he pointed out that it was a handgun, and Darlene was shot with a shotgun.
Marisa Pinson0:40
Many of the homicides are fresh. Some are decades cold.
Debbie Komar0:44
He kinda substantiates everything he said 20 years ago, but gave us a little bit more information on that.
Marisa Pinson0:51
One of the files opened by the squad takes them back to August of 1987, and the banks of the Hudson River.
John Murray1:00
I was told to respond to this area, um, in connection to an apparent homicide that occurred.
Marisa Pinson1:06
In August 1987, John Murray works homicide for the New York State Police.
John Murray1:12
As I walked down towards the end of, of the, uh, trail here, and reaching the river, I could, I noted that there was a, um, concrete shelf-like area. And against that shelf area, there was a body of a woman lying partially submerged in the water. Her