Cold and Missing: Keysone Khounpanya

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discretion is advised. I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin

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-Solkowski. And I'm your co -host, Eli Solkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover

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cold cases and missing person cases. Hello, everyone,

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and welcome back to Cold and Missing. I'm your

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host, Ali. And I'm your co -host, Eli. Welcome

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back, everyone. I know we had to take the week

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off. You know, it was just so hard around here

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with the 4th of July. There were bangs, booms,

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parties. It was very hard to get clean audio,

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so we decided to take the week off. I think we

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took the week off the year before, too, on the

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4th of July, so maybe that will just be something

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going forward until we can get into a proper

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studio. As long as we're home recording, the

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bangs and the booms were too much for me. But

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we are back this week and we are on episode 135.

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If you are new here, I encourage you to go back

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and take a listen to our backlog. We have tons

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of episodes that are always worth having a new

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listen to. So please go back and listen to what's

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in our backlog. But I think we should just go

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ahead and get into this week's episode. I believe

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we are covering a cold case this week, right?

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That's right. All right, let's get into it. Today,

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we are covering the cold case of Keysone Khounpanya ,

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and this takes place in January of 2000 in Hurst,

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Texas. But first, a little bit about Keysone.

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Keysone Khounpanya was 49 years old in 2000. She

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was divorced with three grown children and a

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few grandchildren she adored. Kaysone was originally

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from Laos, but she had come to the United States

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in 1976 with a dream. A dream to pursue music

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and build a better life. She lived in Massachusetts

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for years, working hard to build her future.

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And in 1996, she became a U .S. citizen. In 1997,

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she moved to Texas, settling into the Oak Tree

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Village Apartments in Hearst. She lived alone

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in a modest second -floor apartment and worked

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at a product identification company called Willet

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America in nearby Holtham City. She was a dedicated

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employee for nearly two years until she was laid

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off in late 1990. The company still thought highly

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of her, and she seemed to think highly of the

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company. She even attended the company holiday

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party just weeks after she was laid off. Kaysone’s

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true love, though, was music. Friends and family

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say she loved to sing. She even recorded her

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own demo tape and performed 1950s Americana music

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at nightclubs, weddings, and sometimes even at

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local country clubs. An ex -boyfriend said that

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she was, quote, a sweet woman, and others remember

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her as a caring and hardworking person. The kind

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of person who never raised her voice, and several

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people in her life commented at what a good cook

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she was. But 1999 had been hard for Kaysone. She'd

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had surgery for health issues, including a hysterectomy

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and even an amputation of a middle finger due

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to an old snake bite that didn't heal correctly.

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She was also worried about her finances since

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she was losing her steady job. Right before a

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timeline picks up, Kaysone had recently asked

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her boyfriend, Khumphou, to move out of her apartment.

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He said, quote, I didn't have a problem with

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that, so I moved. I still kept helping her. And

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now, a timeline of events. Tuesday, January 11,

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2000. Kason's ex -boyfriend, Kung Fu, started

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to get concerned. He hadn't heard from her in

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about a week, and he had taken her car to get

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it repaired. He said, quote, I had her car trying

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to get it repaired, and I was trying to reach

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her to give it back. I couldn't find her. So

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the morning of Tuesday, he calls 911 and asks

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for a welfare check. Around 9 .30 that morning,

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the apartment manager led police to her second

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-floor unit. The door was unlocked. Police entered

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the apartment and find a living room full of

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blood. They start searching the apartment and

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quickly locate Keysone in her bedroom. She was

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lying on her bedroom floor, dressed in a sweatshirt

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and pants. Her hands were tied behind her back.

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Investigators believe the attack began in the

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living room. They found bloodstains there and

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a kitchen knife, which police say was used in

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the initial attack of her. Police theorize that

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Keysone was stabbed in the neck and cut during

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a struggle. Despite her injuries, she may have

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fought to free herself from the binds for some

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time before the killer placed a pillow against

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the back of her head. pressed a gun to it, and

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fired a single fatal shot. Police did not recover

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a gun at the scene. The scene was violent but

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strange. Nothing obvious seemed stolen, but boxes

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in her bedroom closet were scattered and an empty

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jewelry box sat on the kitchen toaster oven.

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Her jewelry was missing, but nothing expensive.

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Police began going door to door to talk to neighbors.

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Several neighbors reported seeing her in the

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complex the weekend before. One neighbor told

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police they saw and heard her as recently as

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Sunday afternoon, January 9th. They said they

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heard her playing her demo tape and singing just

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after the Dallas Cowboys' playoff game had started.

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In the following days, police and detectives

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interview neighbors and members of the local

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Laotian community. They learned more about Keysone’s

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weekend performances and her presence in the

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Laotian American music scene. Detectives were

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told that the community was open to helping them,

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and the news of Keysone’s murder spread quickly,

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but no tips ever came in to police. Weeks passed

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by. By February, six weeks after Keysone’s murder,

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police are still searching for leads. including

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trying to identify the new boyfriend that she

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had told her ex about. Investigators believe

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it's likely that Kaysone let her killer into the

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apartment herself, since there was no sign of

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forced entry. Her ex -boyfriend told reporters

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at the time, quote, But after this update, after

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six weeks, The case goes cold. Police don't ever

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update and the case falls out of the media. So

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that is truly all we know about Keysone’s murder.

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So if you have any information about the murder

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of Keysone Khounpanya , please contact the Hurst

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Police Department at 817 -788 -7180. So that

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is the cold case of Keysone Khounpanya. Just to immediately

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jump into Kayson's character, and I mean just

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her character qualities, her personality, I think

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it speaks volumes about a person who is willing

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to attend their company Christmas party, even

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post being laid off. I think it says that she

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not only really loved where she worked, but loved

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the community of people. That she was working

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with, because I think that's really where most

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jobs keep their people is that they're working

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in a good environment amongst good people. And

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it seems like that's exactly what she was like

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to work with as well. Yeah. And, you know, that

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detail to me kind of spoke to like how hopeful

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she could be to like, oh, you know, maybe if

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I show up to the party and, you know. People

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remember how great I am. Like, I'll get hired

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back quickly. Like, I think it was also, like,

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a smart move just, like, career -wise. Like,

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you know, almost like a networking event. Like,

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she was working hard and hustling, and I just

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really admire that. Yeah, and what she was going

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through at the time prior to her murder, I remember...

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My mom was actually around the same age when

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she had her hysterectomy. And again, it was in

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the 90s. And I know from what I remember of that

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time period, it's a very difficult recovery and

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can be a huge hormone imbalance and very hard

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on the body, like any surgery. So just the place

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that she was in and knowing how hard she was

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working, she just sounded like one hell of a

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person. For sure. And, you know, her music career

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was really where her passion lied. And it seems

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like every weekend she was out singing at a club,

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at a nightclub, at a wedding. Like she loved

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to sing. Her ex -boyfriend, who we talked about

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in the timeline, would play keyboards like she

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had a whole band behind her. Just really incredible.

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I wish I could have found like. you know, a sample

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of her singing or like a video of it. But I don't

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know that there's one on the internet, quite

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frankly. Yeah. And that was another thing I wanted

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to dive into about her, her commitment to her

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artistry. It was beautifully relentless. And

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that's how I navigate my own art career. In all

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of my artistry, I create because I must, because

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I have to. I will create regardless of if anyone

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sees my art or not. That's paintings, acting,

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singing, performing. And I think she was very

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much in the same vein. So to know a person like

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that was taken so violently is deeply unfair.

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And I'm really interested to dive into this timeline

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and what happened here and hopefully her name.

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is spoken more now that we've covered this case.

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Yeah, when I found this case, I couldn't really

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find a lot of information on it. I had, you know,

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some news articles to go off of. And in those,

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you know, there was like a wealth of information

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about her. But as far as details about the investigation,

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I do have some, obviously. But yeah, there was

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very little updates on this throughout the years.

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We've gone back and forth. about this on the

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podcast about how important it is to cover not

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only the cases but the people themselves and

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who they were and what they were doing and you

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know that's the same that's the same thing here

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I think it's worth talking about people's personalities

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and characteristics and what they looked like

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because it may drum up some information and because

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there is so little here I'm hoping that talking

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about her very specific personality and her name

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will drum up that same thing. For sure. And,

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you know, K -Zone and everyone we cover here

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on Cold and Missing, they deserve to be talked

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about and spoken about fondly and remembered

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fondly for who they were, not just how their

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life ended. So, yeah. You know, with all that

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said, though, do you have any questions about

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the timeline? Just what time it was, the time

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of day and how much time had passed between her

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ex -boyfriend worrying and when law enforcement

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entered the apartment. Yeah, so from my understanding.

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Khumphou, Keysone’s ex -boyfriend who she had

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lived with for most of 1999, but just a few weeks

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before the timeline picks up, she asks him to

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move out. He had taken her car because it had

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broken down. And I believe he had it for like

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a week trying to get it fixed for her. And then

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he was trying to get in contact with her to return

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the car and she wasn't picking up her phone.

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I don't know. Did he try to go over there? Did

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he knock on the door? I don't know any of those

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details, but I do know that he tried to contact

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her several times, and when he wasn't getting

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an answer, he called police. Yeah, I think that,

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to me, I'm interested in what that, if it's days

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or hours, what that timeline looks like, because

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this is a time of... I mean, yes, there were

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cell phones, but not a lot of people had them,

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and I don't think that they were involved in

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this case. I think it really does matter when

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she was last seen down to when she was found.

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And I know that that information might not be

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there, but I think it's a key placeholder in

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this case. So here's a few more specifics. I

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went back into the notes I take whenever I'm

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researching. So Khumphou said that it had been

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at least since January 4th since he had spoken

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to her. And our timeline picks up on Tuesday,

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January 11th. So, yeah, about a week there. And

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then we know neighbors are sure that. There are

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several neighbors, in fact, that say they saw

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her in the complex that weekend. I believe someone

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saw her in the parking lot. And then a neighbor

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to her building says that he heard her singing

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just after the kickoff of the football game on

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Sunday. So he heard her singing in her apartment.

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He also mentioned that her demo CD was playing,

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like people heard that as well. So I am curious,

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like. Did they hear her singing or did they just

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hear her demo tape? Because that's a question

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I have about that Sunday. But people say they

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heard her. Yeah, that was my next big question.

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Was that music playing or was it actually her?

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Because if it had been playing, you know, if

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it had been playing 24 -7 for a day or two, I

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don't... The beginning of that timeline to me,

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I just, I really wish we had more information

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on because I think it would, I mean, this is

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obvious, it would fill in the timeline. And I'm

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just racking my brain. I would give anything

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to go to that moment and zero in to know what

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happened. Yeah. And like I said, I'd love to

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know to what extent her ex -boyfriend had gone

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through to try to contact her. Like, had he gone

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over there and knocked on the door and didn't

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hear anything? When did he go over there? Did

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he try to open the door and, you know, it was

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locked? We know when police arrive, the door

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is unlocked. So, you know, like details like

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that, I think I hope police have them. But I

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think, you know, those are things that I would

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want to know. Some specifics that I wanted to

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get into and ask you about was about what law

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enforcement found when they went into Keysone’s

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apartment. More specifically, I guess I wanted

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to know what you thought about the pillow on

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her head. My first question is, was it intended

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to muffle? That's my thought when I read about

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that, is that whoever the murderer was was using

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the pillow as kind of a silencer and was trying

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to dampen the noise of the gun. I know we've

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covered cases like Kayson's before, and to me

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this reads as she was either being watched or

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she did know the perpetrator. And I guess I wanted

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to know what you thought about that. Yeah, so

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police believe that she knew the murderer because

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there was no sign of forced entry. But I know

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we've talked about this before, and it's like

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there's a lot of ways to get someone to open

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their door and kind of force your way inside

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without necessarily kicking in a door, breaking

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a window, those obvious signs of forced entry.

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So that's something I've started to not jump

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to so quickly. You know, we hear it a lot in

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true crime, but, you know, stabbing someone is

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very personal. And that's how this attack started

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was it seemed to be, according to police, that,

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you know, she was attacked first with a knife.

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So that leads me to think that, yeah, maybe it

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was somebody who had, you know, a grievance against

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her, was mad at her for some reason. And also

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the way that nothing of real value was stolen.

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But the place was kind of ransacked. Sometimes,

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you know, we've seen this in other cases where

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someone's just trying to stage like a robbery.

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So I do think that's what happened here, that

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someone was trying to stage a robbery at least,

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since nothing of true value was stolen. We know

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her jewelry was taken, but nothing that was expensive.

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So I don't know if there was expensive jewelry

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left at the apartment or if maybe she just didn't

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own any really fine jewelry. And I guess with

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that, there's always the possibility that whoever

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was committing the crime thought that there was

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something more in the apartment. Maybe she said

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something in passing and that person heard of

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it and thought it was something more than it

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actually was. But moving on from that, what's

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with the new boyfriend that we don't really hear

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anything about? I guess I want to know your take

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on him and, you know, if any of her love interests

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had been questioned in this case. Yeah, great

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question. And it's one that I have as well. I

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would assume that police investigated her ex

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-boyfriend. We know that he called the police

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to, you know, do the initial welfare check on

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her. So I would assume police checked out his

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alibi, were able to rule him out. He's never

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been named as a suspect. But the timing of it

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all is very suspicious for me. So, you know,

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if I was able to sit down and read everything

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in the police file, I think the first place I

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would actually go is an interview with her ex

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-boyfriend. And just to really understand how

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this person has been ruled out, because everything

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else is kind of suspicious. Like there's this.

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She's asked him to move out. You know, he says

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he's fine with it. He doesn't have any hard feelings.

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She found a new man. That's fine. He continues

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to help her. He had her car. And, you know, he

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was getting it fixed. But it's just all like

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the timing of it just seems suspicious. And then

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police, to the best of my knowledge, were never

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able to find the identity of the new boyfriend,

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the new lover. I would be curious to see. If

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any witnesses had seen somebody new coming around

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the apartment, you know, we have witnesses seeing

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her in the complex. Did they see a man with her

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coming and going, somebody they didn't recognize

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even? So those are all questions I have. It just,

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it seems like Keysone was very... in her community

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you know she was singing she was in the Laotian

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community and it was a pretty tight -knit group

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so it just seems strange to me that nobody would

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know who the new boyfriend is at all but that

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is somebody who I also suspect you know if that

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is a real person he would be on my suspect list

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yeah I'm also curious to know if it was reported

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or if there was any sort of Yeah, and I think

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this is a crime scene where, you know, there

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really could have been some evidence. You know,

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it seemed like there was a fight, a struggle.

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Her hands were bound behind her back. I mean,

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we see duct tape being a place. where evidence

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can live for years. You know, they did find the

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knife that they believe was used in the attack.

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A lot of times, you know, an attacker will slip

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and cut themselves. So is their DNA there? You

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know, did they swab, collect swabs at the time?

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DNA was still, you know, kind of at the beginnings

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of, you know. law enforcement and solving crime,

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but what evidence was kept in this case that

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possibly could be retested today? Even the pillow,

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I'm thinking of contact DNA, holding it. Do we

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have any evidence of what kind of gun was used

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from the pillow? There's just, I think there's

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a lot of evidence there and I would be curious

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what has been tested since 2000. Yeah, exactly.

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Because there is a crime scene here. I'm so curious

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to know what, if there was anything found, because

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again, key details would be in that evidence

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and again, fill in the timeline. Either way,

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I'm so grateful to know Keysone’s name and case

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and that you brought it here today. Yeah, this

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is a case that, you know, I saw Keysone’s picture

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first and as I started researching it and finding

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details about her case and about her, It just

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felt really important to bring, you know, not

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only to you, but to all our listeners as well,

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because I think. This is an important case. And

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I really feel like this is a case that is solvable.

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I think all our cases are solvable because someone

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knows something. But I think this is something

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where if police went back and looked at it, if

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they get pressure, if they get questions, if

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people start talking about case on, then like

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maybe they'll bring it out and use some of their

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resources to retest evidence. Technology has

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come so far in the last 25 years that I really

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believe there would be some DNA available. to

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have as a profile at least. Yeah, I mean, revisiting

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the case, revisiting the evidence also brings

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new eyes to the case, which is a great thing

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for cold cases like this that have been quiet

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for what is a long time, but still recent enough

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that there could be evidence tested, scientific

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findings there that match DNA to a possible someone.

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And I think it's recent enough, too, that, you

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know, some of the players, the suspects even,

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could still be alive and, you know, people could

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still remember things from this time. So I really

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believe that this is a case that could be solved

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if enough resources are put towards it. And I

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think Keysone is so deserving of those resources.

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So again, if you know anything about the murder

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of Keysone Campana in January of 2000, please

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contact the Hearst Police Department at 817 -788

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Kaysone on our Instagram, so please follow us

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