Cold and Missing: Jennifer Delgado

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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Hello everyone and welcome back.

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Welcome back everyone.

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I am your co-host Eli Sulkowski and this is my beautiful, talented, next to perfect wife.

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Ali McLaughlin Sulkowski and I am your host for Cold and Missing where we cover cold cases

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and unresolved missing person cases.

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So for this week we have a cold case.

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Yes this week we are covering a cold case and just a content warning at the top here,

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we are going to be talking about violence against a child today.

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Thank you for that content warning, much appreciated baby.

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So today we are going to be talking about the cold case of Jennifer Delgado and this

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takes place June 6th, 1988 in San Antonio, Texas.

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First a little bit about Jennifer.

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Jennifer is 8 years old in 1988.

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She was born August 24th, 1979 and she had just finished her third grade year at Westwood

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Terrace Elementary School.

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She's described as a soft spoken, sweet and caring child and she was known for wearing

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a red Mexican style dress in class.

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A classmate of hers says, quote, everybody liked her, she was a good student, end quote.

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And that is Chris Palmer who we're actually going to be talking a lot about in this case

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because he's worked really hard to keep Jennifer's story active and in the media.

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So on Monday, June 6th, 1988, Jennifer and her mother Melinda Delgado, who is 25 years

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old are doing laundry at a laundromat across the street from their apartment on the west

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side of San Antonio.

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And this is at the corner of what is now West Rock Drive and Highway 90.

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As of 2023, it's a credit union, but in 1988, the laundromat was located in a strip mall

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with a convenience store next door and a beauty salon next to that.

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Jennifer's father was across the street at their home with Jennifer's other siblings.

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At around 8 p.m., Jennifer and Melinda are sitting in chairs near the front door drinking

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sodas and doing the family's laundry.

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Jennifer and Melinda are alone in the coin operated laundromat.

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Eventually, a young man enters the laundromat.

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He's wearing a white floral patterned shirt and is described as being in his late teens

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or very early 20s.

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This man, he enters the laundromat just to use the soda machine.

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This is 1988, so it was 50 cent sodas.

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And the guy puts his coins into the soda machine and it eats his money.

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No soda comes out, he doesn't get a refund.

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This guy flies into a fit of rage and starts kicking and hitting the vending machine.

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He then produces a knife and stabs Melinda on her left side.

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Melinda screams for Jennifer to run home to her father and as Jennifer gets up to run,

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the man stabs her in her stomach.

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Jennifer and Melinda run across the street to their home, but Jennifer collapses in the

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yard and Melinda is yelling for her husband and for help.

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A neighbor, Vicki Martina, says, quote, she ran across the street with her daughter in

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her arms screaming.

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I wrapped a towel around the little girl before the ambulance arrived.

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Melinda was talking, but Jennifer had passed out, end quote.

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Meanwhile, the killer had gotten to a gray or silver two door sedan.

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The car was driven by another man who police say may have been unaware of the stabbing

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that had just occurred inside of the laundromat.

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The car is described as either a Honda or a Chevrolet Chevette.

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The car drove south toward US Highway 90.

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Jennifer and Melinda are rushed to Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center.

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Melinda is in critical condition, but survives the attack.

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However, Jennifer will pass away around 11 p.m. that evening from her wounds.

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Back at the laundromat, police immediately begin investigating the scene.

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They try to pull fingerprints from the coins the suspect used at the soda machine.

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Police say, quote, this has got to be one of the most senseless murders.

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To stab a small child like that without any reason, we don't have any motive.

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We don't have any reason for it.

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We don't have anything, end quote.

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And that's Detective John Lopez of San Antonio PD.

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And then Chris Palmer, who is very familiar with this case, that is Jennifer's childhood

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friend.

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He's obviously an adult now.

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He says, quote, talking to Jennifer's mother, she didn't know who the person was.

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So it's not like there was any kind of anything against the family in particular.

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It was just, I don't know what would cause someone to, you know, they're trying to

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get a soda from the vending machine.

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It doesn't work.

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I'm just going to stab someone.

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What was going on in that person's mind?

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End quote.

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So this is still June of 1988, but the end of June.

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So two weeks after Jennifer's murder, police announced that they are at a standstill with

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the case.

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Hoping to drum up some new leads on the case, the police will release a sketch of the suspect.

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Chris Palmer says, quote, in talking to the mother, she was able to give them some details

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and they put up a sketch.

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End quote.

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Jennifer's mother, Melinda, described the attacker as 17 or 18 years old, five foot

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two, clean shaven, long dark wavy hair, a slender build, and is described as either a Hispanic

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or white male.

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At the end of June, Jennifer is also laid to rest.

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But then we really don't hear too much.

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At the one year anniversary, so this is June 6th of 1989, police announced that the case

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has come to a standstill.

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Over the last year, 17 people of interest emerged.

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That list was narrowed down to three and then down to zero.

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Everybody was able to provide an alibi that checked out according to police.

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In June of 2001, so this is 13 years since Jennifer's murder, Chris Palmer organizes

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a candlelit vigil to remember Jennifer and get her case back into the media.

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Local news covered the event and a priest comes to pray with the group gathered.

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Those in attendance talk about memories they had of Jennifer.

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Chris says, quote, it was just nice, us getting together, remembering her, and it was nice

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to know that I wasn't the only one that did not, had not forgotten about her, end quote.

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Despite the media coverage, no new leads are discovered.

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In April 2012, so this is around 24 years since Jennifer had been murdered, police announced

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that they are reopening the case and relooking at everything and hoping to get a more detailed

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fingerprint impression from those coins and hoping that by working that piece of evidence

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a little bit more, something will come up.

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However, as of today, 2023, nothing has really come to light as far as those fingerprints

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or the 2014 reopening of the investigation.

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In 2021, so this is 33 years now, Chris Palmer establishes the Jennifer Sue Delgado Memorial

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Foundation to keep her memory alive and benefit students through scholarships and books.

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In August of 2021, the San Antonio police say, quote, at this point in the investigation,

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all possible leads have been exhausted.

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We ask anyone with information on this case to call our detectives at 210-207-7635.

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In June of 2022, so this is 34 years now that Jennifer has been gone, Chris Palmer is able

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to raise thousands of dollars to dedicate part of West Rock Drive as the Jennifer Sue

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Delgado Memorial Way.

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The signs are erected where the laundromat once stood.

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Also through the foundation, they're able to award the first scholarship in Jennifer's

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name and they were able to purchase a book.

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So every student at Jennifer's elementary school, Westward Terrace Elementary, had a

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book to read over the summer.

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So that was all done in Jennifer's memory, which is really beautiful.

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On August 24th, 2002, on what should have been Jennifer's 43rd birthday, police asked

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the public for help in closing her case.

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And then September 2022, Chris Palmer requested the Texas Attorney General for their help

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in the investigation.

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And so in 2021, the Attorney General created a cold case and missing person office to help

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local law enforcement.

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So Chris Palmer reaches out to them and they agreed to help investigate Jennifer's case

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and to look into it.

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In the 34 years since Jennifer's been murdered, there has been no suspect in this case, nobody

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ever named in this case.

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And that is where we currently are as of 2023.

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Hopefully with the Texas Attorney General stepping in, hopefully there'll be a little

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bit more movement on this case and they're able to work some more evidence from the scene

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that hopefully they were able to collect at the time and hopefully new DNA, new fingerprint

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technology, we're able to drum up some suspects to look into because this is such a senseless

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crime.

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If you know anything about what happened to Jennifer in June of 1988, you are encouraged

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to call the San Antonio Homicide Unit at 210-207-7635 or to remain anonymous, you can call Crime

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Stoppers at 210-224-7867.

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And then the sources for today's podcast come from Ken 5 Eyewitness News, WAITV, The San

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Antonio Report, KSAT12, KTSA, News4SA, and The Criminal Journal.

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Okay, so do you have any questions?

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Yeah, my first question is to ask if there was cameras.

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I assume no.

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Yeah, no in 1988, or at least nothing that was reported.

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Yeah, I mean it sounded like maybe it was kind of small townish environment as well.

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You know, like their home was across the street from the laundromat is what I'm saying.

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So you know, if it was like a more of like a smaller town, they may not be as high tech

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as like they were living in like a really big, busier city, you know.

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Well this is San Antonio, Texas.

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I know, but I just didn't know if like where they lived was like a smaller pocket inside

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of San Antonio.

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Maybe like it maybe it did have like more of a neighborhood feel, but I think more than

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anything it was just the date like 1988.

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I don't think it was very common yet for cameras to be at a laundromat.

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Like maybe at banks and stuff they had kind of been introduced, but they had made it to

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the laundromat yet.

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It's wild what a jump in technology we've had from then to now because like you know

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we have little cameras all over our house and it's so easy and like pretty affordable

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to like have a makeshift security system.

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So like I don't know I think about that a lot and like just like one camera would have

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that's all you really would have needed at the time, you know, especially because it's

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like the middle of the day like a camera on someone very clearly an individual who's like

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acting erratic like you'll be able to see that person's face, you know.

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I have less questions and more just like man the lack of everything at the time.

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And like the behavior is just bizarre.

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Yeah I don't know how common it would have been to like stop into a laundromat for a

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soda because from what I could find there was a convenience store next door.

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I would think that is the more logical place to go get a soda.

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But maybe it was closed, you know, it was later at night it was 8 p.m.

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I also this is very specific but at my small like college that I went to there was one

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place on campus that had a vending machine that never changed their prices of soda.

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So it was like I'm pretty sure it was 75 cents but when I was there, you know, in 2011 it

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was still 75 cents the whole time.

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So I would like walk across campus to get a soda from that place and a lot of people

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did because it was cheaper.

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Yeah so maybe it's something like that.

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It's just like a known thing.

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That's why I asked if it was like a small town environment if like there's like a weird

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thing in that town where everyone's like this is where the cheap soda is.

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Kind of what I think here and I you know looking at maps of where the laundromat used to be

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there is an Air Force base really close by and this being described as like a young man

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like Melinda said 17 or 18 in her description which is that's a high schooler you know that's

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a young person.

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Yeah and I mean did they say anything about the hair like it's long.

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No it was long.

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Well you like wouldn't be let in without your hair cut first so.

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I guess that's true.

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But if he's 17 he wouldn't have been able to anyway but I don't know I guess if I don't

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know.

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Yeah the sketch which I think that's worth mentioning though definitely.

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Yeah the sketch that the police released will upload it onto our Instagram so that way people

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can see it as well but yeah it is somebody with like long like a man with hair to his

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shoulders which like in the 80s I do not think they allow long hair in the Air Force.

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I don't think they allow it now.

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I'm thinking about my best friend's husband you know who's in the military and he's always

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got it.

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Yeah I don't yeah.

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He's like every two weeks like.

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Yeah I think for men it's still kind of like you can't touch your collar yeah kind of vibe.

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But no I think that's worth mentioning that's like a large population of people right in

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that area too like of a specific like they're all doing the same thing.

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Yeah and when you look at like according to newspaper reports they fled south and that

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would have brought them into the highway which would have led them into the Air Force base

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where it's ultimately where Melinda and Jennifer went for care that evening you know they went

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to the Air Force Medical Center.

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Yeah this case though I just really broke my heart and Chris Palmer will include the

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foundation if you want to donate to the Jennifer Sue Delgado Memorial Fund.

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And if you can't donate just at least share.

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Yeah we'll include that in our show notes so that way you can see the work that he's

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trying to do and establish for Jennifer as you know in reading interviews with Chris

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as he got older it really like hit him like how senseless this was and you know he has

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a daughter now and like when she turned eight he was like this is like how could anybody

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do that.

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How could anybody over a soda like over 50 cents you know like you're going to stop

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to people.

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Like that I would think that somebody who is operating with that kind of like anger

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and rage and reaction in them may have committed a crime again you know I would imagine that

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a violent crime could be tied to this person.

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That's very unpredictable it's messy you can tell that that person was not like it wasn't

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a planned killing or if it was they certainly weren't in their right mind when they were

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doing it.

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Before we continue on that I wanted to just like speak to Chris a little bit.

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I think that there's a lot of different versions that a person can become after facing something

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like that and the fact that like he made it his life's work to build something really

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beautiful out of these like tragedies and not in like a I don't know like self-seeking

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way.

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Like it really is just like awareness and giving back to the community like you know

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like a tragedy can really turn someone into someone that they didn't want to become and

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I think it's beautiful that he like chose this for himself and like his community in

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the world obviously.

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Yeah and for Jennifer like it's yeah exactly yeah you know I it was really hard to find

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news reports on her which I think is really sad because this young girl like deserves

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I say this every single time we talk about anybody but it's like they deserve justice

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you know like every case deserves to get worked and this little girl's like really deserves

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to get worked you know she's yeah she deserves she deserved more she deserved more in this

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life than what she got and her family deserves some closure in that.

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So again if you know anything oh honey.

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Well I think the thing that got me was that like when you said what the foundation was

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for it was like for books and what was the other thing.

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So a scholarship is awarded to a senior in the school district and they raise money their

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goal is to raise money every single year to send every student from Jennifer's elementary

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school home with a book for the summer for them to read and then they wanted to erect

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the memorial way and get a part of the road dedicated which they have accomplished they

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were able to raise all the money get it through city council and everything so that is up

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and you can see it today if you're in San Antonio.

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What I was going to say about that what got me listening to that was like usually for

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foundations especially people you know who pass later in life and it's a memorial fund

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it's about something like very specific that they that they cared about you know and like

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what got me was that like she didn't even have that like we never got to know that about

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her family never got to know if like it was like a dancing scholarship or like you know

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if she was really passionate about science or like like she didn't get to like have like

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those things so it just like don't exist for her.

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I don't know that like really hit me for some reason that like oh you didn't even get to

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develop your special interest like your special little thing or maybe she was like just finding

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it yeah and just like right not here anymore I don't know yeah because somebody got angry

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at a vending machine yeah.

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Again if you know anything about what happened to Jennifer in 1988 please call the San Antonio

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Homicide Unit at 210-207-7635 or to remain anonymous you can call Crime Stoppers at 210-207-7635

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or to remain anonymous you can call Crime Stoppers at 210-224-7867.

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Wow thanks for you know taking the time to find that case I'm sure it was kind of buried

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like a lot of the ones honestly when you tell me about your research process so I feel grateful

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to have like learned about Jennifer and the family yeah I'm hoping more people will talk

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about them now.

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Yeah that's always my goal is to find cases that have never really gotten a lot of media

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coverage.

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Stay safe y'all.