The After Show: Death of a Showgirl
4/20/202628 min
Deborah Roberts and Josh Margolin unpacked the investigation into Debbie Flores Narvaez’s murder and revealed more details from ‘20/20’’s exclusive prison phone call with her killer.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
In the suburbs of DC, a woman fails to show up for work and is found brutally murdered.
Speaker 10:06
911, what's your emergency?
Josh Margolin· Guest0:07
We just walked in the door, and there's blood in the foyer.
Speaker 00:10
For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible. A new series from ABC Audio and 20/20, Blood and Water. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
Deborah Roberts· Host0:27
[upbeat music] Hi there, everybody. So happy you're with us today. I'm Deborah Roberts, and welcome to 20/20, The After Show. You may have heard the expression, I mean, who hasn't, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"? Well, our most recent 20/20 story actually did happen in Vegas, but certainly the awful details did not stay there. The episode that aired on Friday is called Death of a Showgirl, and today we're gonna explore some fresh details around this heartbreaking story of a talented, beautiful, young woman named Debbie Flores Narvaez. She was only 31 years old when she died, and it's really a very heartbreaking story. She was a bright woman. She had taken law classes after graduating from college. She was also a former NFL cheerleader ambassador, and she desperately wanted to be a professional dancer. She wanted to fulfill her dreams of becoming a star, maybe even see her name in lights one day on the Vegas Strip. On January 8th, 2011, police found what is really so hard