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waiting to be heard and have their stories told. This
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is the Book of the Dead, a true crime podcast
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re visit haunting disappearances, and uncover the truths buried beneath
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the years of silence. I'm your host, Courtney Liso, and
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Hello, Hello, Welcome to the next chapter in the Book
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of the Dead. In the summer of nineteen eighty, the
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bodies of two women were found in California, four days
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and less than one hundred miles apart. These women's deaths
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were near identical, violent deaths. Their bodies left abandoned in
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an orchard and a parking lot. The similarities did not
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end there. Though both women were relatively close in age,
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there was a clear resemblance between the two, and both
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women had given birth prior to their deaths. These women
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also waited decades to be identified. When I first covered
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this story almost three and a half years ago, I
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could only give you one of their names. Today, I
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am revisiting their case, as finally, almost fifty years after her,
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the second victim was finally identified. These are the murders
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of the Kern and Ventura County Jane Does. On July fourteenth,
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nineteen eighty, in Dolano, California, which is part of Kern County,
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a maintenance worker was horrified to discover the body of
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a woman lying in an almond orchard just off of
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Highway ninety nine. The woman was very well dressed, clearly
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ready to go out, and she had been brutally attacked.
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It would ultimately be determined that this woman had been
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stabbed thirty times since she had been raped. Collected during
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the autopsy were scrapings of DNA from under her fingernails,
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indicating that she had fought hard against her killer, as
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well as the semen sample. While investigators hoped that they
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would be able to identify her killer with this DNA evidence,
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the technology needed to properly process this evidence was still
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a long way off from being used as part of
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regular protocol. Also collected with the intention of using them
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to identify this woman's killer were bottles of liquor found
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near the body, which were analyzed for fingerprints in saliva.
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While police knew they had to find her killer, they
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also needed to identify the victim. There was nothing found
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with her body that identified her by name, and she
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would eventually be called the Kern County Jane Doe for
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where she had been found. The Kern County Dough was
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determined to be between the ages of twenty and forty five,
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approximately five foot, and of either Hispanic or Indigenous descent.
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It was determined that she had likely given birth. She
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had a scar on her abdomen, possibly from the cesarean,
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a scar on her left bodock, and she had surgery
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on her leg where screws and metal rods were implanted,
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though there was no serial number found that could be
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used to identify her. She also had some tattoos, including
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ones that said I love you Shirley Seattle and one
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on her arm that said mom, I Love you. She
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was also missing her upper denture, and it was theorized
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that it had possibly been lost during the attack. Toxicology
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reports also revealed that her blood alcohol level was point
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three at the time of her death, indicating that she
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was likely very disoriented or not fully cognizant of what
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was happening at the time she was attacked. Investigators also
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believed that the Kern County doe was possibly from Washington State.
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Investigators did call on the media to help them identify
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the victim, and a description of her was released to
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the public, asking any one to come forward that can
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name her. One of the calls they received came from
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a woman who said someone matching Jane Doe's description worked
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at a bar and her name was Rebecca Ocha. However,
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when investigators went to the bar and asked about her,
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no one by that name or matching Kern County Doe's
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description was employed. There. Hitting a dead end, investigators focused
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on her tattoos, hoping that one of the local shops
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in the area had had her as a client. They
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went to a shop in Bakersfield, and while the artists
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they spoke to didn't recognize her or the tattoos, they
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pointed police towards a different shop in Los Angeles that
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specialized in the style of tattoos she had and was
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also situated in an area where most of their clients
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help were indigenous. The artist they spoke to there was
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unable to identify her either, and police weren't getting a
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hit on missing persons reported in Washington State. At some point,
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investigators had reason to believe that she had been at
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a bar called Rubies, located in Lamour, and the speculation
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was that she had been abducted from there or alert
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away from this establishment. While police are actively working to
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identify the current County dough as well as her killer.
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This Jane Doe was not the only unidentified victim found
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in July of nineteen eighty. On July eighteenth, four days
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acts after the body of the Kern County Jane Doe
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was found, the body of another woman was found in
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the parking lot of Westlake High School in Westlake Village,
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which is in Ventura County, California. The school's janitor had
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been the one to find her body, and as with
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the Kerrent County Jane Doe, this woman had also been
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killed mere hours before she had been discovered. The similarities
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did not end there, though. This woman had also been raped,
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and she had been stabbed nineteen times. Like the Kern
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County Dough, this woman had also likely given birth, as
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evidence of an episiotomy scar had been found, and at
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the time of her death, she was also five months pregnant.
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This victim was five foot two, approximately one hundred and
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fifteen pounds, of Hispanic or Indigenous descent, and between the
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ages of fifteen and thirty. Her hair was brown with
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the endstyde blonde, and her eyebrests had been shaved and
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penciled back on. Also, like the Kern County Dough, investigators
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were having trouble identifying this victim. Evidence of the scene
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suggested she had not been killed in the parking lot
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where she had been found. Blood spatter found indicated that
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she had likely been dragged to that location after her death,
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and it was determined that she had most likely been
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abducted while trying to hitchhike near the Visalia College of
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the Sequoias, which is eighty miles from Bakersfield, the area
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where the Kern County dough had been found. Once again,
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investigators were tasked with identifying both a victim and her killer,
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and it was proving to be impossible. While they collected
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fingerprints in DNA, no match was found in any database,
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and the DNA from her unborn son was also not
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a match to any mail in the system. Missing persons
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reported in the area also did not match her description,
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and while fingernail scrapings and seamen were collected from her body,
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they were unable to identify her killer. While there were
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undeniable similarities between the two cases, both women had similar
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physical characteristics, both women had given birth, and both women
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had been murdered in the same way. Because they had
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been found so far from each other, no connection was
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made between them. As the days and weeks turned into
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months and years, their cases grew cold, and it was
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a waiting game to see if one day a match
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should be found that would tell investigators who these women
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were or who their killer was. That weight finally ended
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twenty eight years after the current Inventura County Jane Doe's
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bodies were found. In two thousand and eight, the Department
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of Justice contacted the Kerrent County Police Department to let
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them know that they had gotten a DNA match in
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one of the Kerr County coal cases. The DNA matched
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a sample taken from the body of the Kern County
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Jane Doe and was from a man named Wilson Choosed.
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Of course, this match is a huge deal, but it's
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not enough for a conviction. They don't have any other evidence. Luckily, though,
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investigators have more than enough time to gather more evidence
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and build a case against him. Because Louisiana native Wilson
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Choost was currently incarcerated and serving a life sentence for
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a string of crimes that had occurred between the years
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nineteen seventy seven and nineteen eighty. He was also not
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eligible for parole until twenty seventeen, so police had ample
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time to look into him, and look into him they did.
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According to an article for the Ventura County Star, on
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October twelfth, nineteen seventy seven, an unnamed woman accepted a
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ride from Choost because he told her he would take
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her to Tepanga County. When she got in the car,
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she immediately noticed that the passenger side window crank as
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well as the handle was missing. Choose then exposed himself
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to her and demanded to perform sex exellent on him.
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She said, quote, I wanted to get out of the
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car and I couldn't. He then taped her arms behind
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her back, and when he threatened her with a knife,
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she tried to appease him by promising to do whatever
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he asked, but only if he got rid of the knife.
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So he did. He drove her to a remote hillside,
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forced her out of the car, and proceeded to rape
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and strangle her. A few hours later, she awoke in
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the dark, and thankfully she survived the attack. She did
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go to the police and she pressed charges. However, he
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made a plea deal and he ended up being charged
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with robbery and kidnapping, for which he served around two
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and a half years, being released on June fifteenth, nineteen eighty,
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to nobody's surprise, since he didn't receive any sort of
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real punishment the first time Wilson choose to would go on
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to attack another woman. Weeks later, in August of nineteen eighty,
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a second victim was approached by Wilson Shoost as she
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was leaving her night class at the Visalia College of
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the Sequoias. Unfortunately for Wilson, he did pick the wrong
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woman to mess with. He approached the sun named woman
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and threatened her with a knife to get into his vehicle.
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This woman told him no. Wilson then attempted to rob her,
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demanding her purse, to which she also refused, though she
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did tell him she would give him the money in
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her wallet likely to make him go away, which he did.
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As I said the first time I covered this case,
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this woman was incredibly fortunate that this did not go
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terribly wrong, because what she did outright, refusing to do
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what she was being asked while he was armed, is
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so dangerous. I think what really deterred him, though, was
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the fact that she was assertive and not willing to
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give in to him. And that's a scary thing for
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many people. A formidable woman is a terrifying thing to behold,
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especially when someone like Wilson Shust has an extreme lack
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of confidence of their own. Now, this woman goes home, However,
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she realizes when she gets there that when she handed
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over the money, she also gave him a receipt that
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had her name, phone number, and address printed on it.
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The very next day, she received a phone call from
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someone taunting her about stealing the money. Likely Wilson Choosed,
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and this phone call was thankfully the only one she received.
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But she did go to the police with a description
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of Choost and they were on the lookout for him. However,
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while this may have been the case, it did not
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prevent Choose from attacking yet another woman. One month later,
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in September of nineteen eighty, he attacked another student attending
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the College of the Sequoias. He approached this woman and
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offered to walk her to her car, which she agreed to. However,
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like in the last two attacks, he pulled out a
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knife and forced her into his car, demanding money from her.
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This woman gives him all the money she has on her,
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which was around ten dollars but he didn't stop there.
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He bound her hands behind her back like the first victim,
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and demanded her to perform sex ax on him. He
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then drove around before bringing her to a remote cornfield
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and forcing this woman out of the vehicle. She said quote,
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I remember thinking they're going to find my body in
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this cornfield tomorrow. She was convinced that he would kill her.
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Choose then proceeded to rape this woman as he did
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the first victim, and afterwards she told him that her
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husband would worry if she didn't come home. So he
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drove her back to her car and apologized to her,
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letting her go. This woman, after he drove off, went
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to the police station and reported the attack. Wilson Schoost
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was arrested and charged with rape, kidnapping, and robbery, and
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he was sentenced to life in prison. Who it's the
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possibility of parole in twenty seventeen. Coming back to two
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thousand and eight, Inventuria County investigator Steve Rods is attempting
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to identify the Ventura County Jane Doe and solve her murder.
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He submits the DNA evidence that he has to Cotis
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and he gets a hit the DNA from his Jane
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doe case is the same DNA found on the Kern
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County doe and they both belong to Wilson Choost. While
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this is incredible news, like in Kern County, all the
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police have is a degraded DNA sample, but Officer Rods
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sees that not only is there a match that connects
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the two cases, but the mo and the victims are similar.
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So he calls the Kern County police and asks them
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to work together to gather the evidence needed to get
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a conviction. In twenty fifteen, after almost forty years of
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waiting for justice, Wilson Choose is charged with the murders
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of the Kern and Ventura County Jane does as well
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as the Ventura County dos onborn baby, and he would
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end up going to trial in May of twenty eighteen.
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Ventura County District Attorney John Barrick did not pursue the
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death penalty in this case, even though the severity of
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it would have allowed for it to be considered a
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capital punishment trial. The reason for this was while the
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DNA evidence was a match, the samples in both cases
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were severely degraded. There were no witnesses to either murder,
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and due to both victims remaining unidentified, character witnesses could
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not be brought in to help bolster the case. So
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while there wasn't enough for a capital punishment, Barrick did
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have enough for a conviction, and his case was heavily
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based around the testimony from Choose three prior victims, who
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were all attacked in similar ways and for which he
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was already serving a life sentence for. Interestingly enough, when
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the first witness testified, she explained that during his attack
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on her, he said that he had raped other women
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and had enjoyed it, meaning she was likely not his
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first victim as previously believed, and he had been doing
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this for far longer than anyone had realized. Also brought
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in to testify was a woman that Chouse had been
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living with in nineteen eighty named Carolyn Bell. She claimed
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that her son Patrick, as well as his brother, had
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told her they had been asked by Choose to help
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him vacuum blood out of his car after he had
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allegedly hit a deer that July. Defense attorney Andrey Ninschev
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asked why she didn't mention it or go to the
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police until she was interviewed by them in regards to
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these homicides in twenty thirteen, but it was likely that
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she was taking what her son was saying at face value.
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Ninschev also argued that the DNA evidence didn't prove that
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Choose had killed the Jane Does and that any sexual
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acts were consensual. In fact, any allegations were circumstantial because
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there was a lack of injuries typically seen in instances
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of rape, even though it was confirmed by both autopsies
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that the women had indeed been raped, and it was
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confirmed that the Kerrent County doe had enough alcohol in
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her system to render her incapable of giving consent to anything.
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Her disorientation could also contribute to her not being able
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to fight back as strongly as she likely would have
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if she had been sober, which would mean a lack
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of injuries typically associated in an attack like this, according
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to the Ventura County Star. John Barrett argued against this,
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saying that Schust was more than capable of murder, was
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a known rapist, and there was enough evidence, especially combined
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with his criminal history, to show that he was responsible
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for these crimes. Lending way to this argument was the
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testimony from Officer Rodds, who said that she had seemed
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to be setting up a reason behind his criminal behavior
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to garner sympathy. Choos claimed in his interview that starting
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in his twenties, certain feelings triggered memories of his mother
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and his relationship with her. He claimed to resent her
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for cheating on his father and splitting up his family.
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Regardless of whether or not you believe that Wilson Schuste
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had issues with his mother, the jury wasn't buying his excuses.
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On May thirty one, twenty eighteen, Wilson schus was convicted
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of two counts of murder for the deaths of the
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Kerrn and Ventura County Jane Does. A conviction was not
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granted for the murder of Ventura County Does onborn child
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as in nineteen eighty, there were discrepancies on one of
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Fetus's life is considered viable. However, because they were able
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to get justice for his mother, one of the jurors
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named the baby Baby Justice to symbolize what they were
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able to do for his mom. On July twelfth, Wilson
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Chusse was sentenced to two life sentences, one for each count,
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plus an additional four years for special allegations, and these
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allegations were committing multiple murders using a knife during the
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commission of a rape. At sentencaying, Ventura County Superior Court
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Judge Ryan Jay Wright told Chuse that he doesn't ever
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enjoy sending people to prison, but he quote finds a
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tremendous amount of professional satisfaction in ordering his sentence. He
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also said, according to the Ventura County Star, quote, your
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last breath is going to be taken in state prison,
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exactly where you deserve to be, and that's on my order.
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Judge Wright also acknowledged the strength it took for the
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prior victims to come forward and assured them that the
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fear of receiving a phone call about his parole would
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now never come because parole was not an option for
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him anymore. While Wilson Choo's victims had finally received justice
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for their murders, they were still unidentified. However, that would
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change for at least one of them two years later.
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In July twenty according to kget dot com, Kern County
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Coroner Don Radcliffe reached out to the DNA Doe Project,
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an organization that works to identify John and Jane Does,
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specifically to ask for help in identifying the Kern County dough. Unfortunately,
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due to her ethnicity being critically underrepresented in most DNA databases,
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it was proving incredibly difficult to find a match. However,
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this changed when they created a Facebook post highlighting the
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Kern County Does story, her identifying features, a composite of
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what she may have looked like, and a plea for
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readers to submit their DNA to jeed match, and someone did.
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In February of twenty twenty, a woman named Violets Susy
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saw a post about the Kern County Dough on the
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DNA Doe Project Facebook page. Specifically, this post was looking
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for a genetic match for a Jane doe that they
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identified as being Cree from the areas of Alberta, Saskatchewan,
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and Manitoba, Canada. According to an article for Indian Country
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Today dot com, the team leader for DNA Doe Project,
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Gina Wrath, said of the Kern County Dough quote, when
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we first uploaded her, she had zero matches in the database.
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In September twenty nineteen, we had a new upload to
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jed match who turned out to be a half second cousin,
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meaning they shared one great grandparent. By tracing the lineage
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from this match, they were able to determine that there
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was an Indigenous great grandparent in this family line. In
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twenty twenty, they put out this post about the Kern
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County doe and a plea for anyone recognizing her to
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submit their DNA violets. Susy submitted her DNA to jed
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match and she was found to be a direct familial
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match to the Kern County dough Violet Tousay's unidentified family
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member was her aunt, Shirley Anne Soussi. Shirley Anne Sussey
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was born in nineteen forty five on the Samson Cre
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Nation Reservation in Alberta, Canada. She was one of seven children,
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and they were all incredibly close. When Shirley was fourteen,
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her father passed away, leaving the family struggling to keep
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the ranch they owned up and running, and the family
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ended up dealing with tremendous financial hardships. When Shirley was
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in her twenties, having no luck finding substantial work in
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her area to help her family, she headed off to
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Edmonton to find a job. After working for a time
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in Edmonton, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, and she
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would go on to meet her husband and start a family,
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giving birth to two boys. Unfortunately, Shirley and her husband
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would go on to divorce and she would lose custody
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of her children, the boys ending up in foster care.
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Shirley was profoundly impacted by the loss of her children,
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and she struggled with a substance use disorder as a result.
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Then it appeared that she had also at some point
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lost her home. In nineteen seventy seven, Shirley returned to
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the reservation to attend her brother's funeral, and while well there,
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her family begged her to come home to Alberta, where
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she could be surrounded by her family and get the
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support she needed, but Shirley declined. Vallet herself told Indian
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Country Today that she had asked her aunt if she
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would be coming home, and she was told by Shirley
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that she was going to return to Vancouver before heading
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to Seattle to visit someone. Shirley's mother had serious reservations
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about her daughter going to Seattle. Call it a mother's intuition,
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but she really believed something bad would happen, and she
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urged Shirley to get identifying tattoos in the event that
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something happened, because no one in Washington State would know her,
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and Shirley said that she would think about it. The
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important thing to note about Shirley was that after she
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had originally left Alberta, she kept in constant contact with
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her mother. She sent letters and cards almost daily and
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always made sure to send something for holidays and birthdays. However,
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in nineteen seventy nine, the letters that had been so
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consistent suddenly stopped. Vilet said, quote my grandmother her mother
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used to receive birthday and Christmas cards from her, and
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they just stopped. My grandmother knew something had happened. So
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Violet promised her grandmother that she would look for Shirley,
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and she wouldn't stop looking until she had been found.
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Violet and her Auntie Bell looked everywhere they could think
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of for Shirley, but there were many obstacles in their way,
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mainly due to privacy restrictions. Violet spent decades traveling around
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Canada and following whatever lead she could to try and
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find Shirley. Bound and determined to keep her promise. One
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of the things that made Shirley so difficult to find, though,
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which was only made clear after the call from the
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DNA DO Project about the match, was that Shirley was
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never suspected to be in California, as she had no
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reason to be there. Regardless of how Shirley ended up there,
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a question her family has not been able to get
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an answer to. Able to keep that long ago made
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promise to her grandmother, she said, quote, when an elder
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asked you to do something for them, you have to
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do your best to live up to it. Now we
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can put Shirley to rest in our proper ceremonial world,
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in our colonial ways, and insure her spirit is not
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stuck in this place. That alone is a huge relief.
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Shirley Anne Sussay was to be buried in Samson Cree
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Reservation following an escort from California to her final resting place.
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Before her body was to be transported, the Toul River
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Tribe held a ceremony to honor her life and her death.
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In the case of the Ventura County dough At the
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time Shirley an Susy was identified, the DNA DOE Project
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had been able to determine that she was sixty percent
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need of American, and they believed that her father was
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likely part Hispanic. Volunteer genealogists had also successfully identified a
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third cousin, but at the time they had been unable
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to find a closer familial match in order to aid
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in her identification. That is until now. Last week, it
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was announced that the Ventura County Jane Doe had finally
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been identified, almost fifty years after her murder. According to
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the director of Volunteers in Education a DNA DOE project,
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the Ventura County Dell identification was one of the most
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difficult cases they had worked on, spanning over eight years.
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She told SFGate quote, our team had to build family trees,
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many generations back in time to connect distant DNA matches,
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ultimately assembling a tree containing one hundred and twenty five
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thousand individuals, and that is over the course of seven years.
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After identifying a couple from the Mexican state of Zacatecas
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born in the eighteen hundreds, who they believed to be
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her great grandparents, they were able to narrow down descendants
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until they found this couple's great grandson. Police contacted him
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and he told police that his sister had had been
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missing since nineteen eighty. At a press conference on February
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twenty fourth, twenty twenty six, Ventura County Sheriff James Fryhoff
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announced that the Ventura County Jane Doe had been identified
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as twenty two year old Matisella Rocha Parga. At the
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time of her murder, Matiseella was a waitress in downtown
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LA and a nursing student. She was also a mother
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to a two year old a little girl, and when
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she died, she was supposed to attend her sister Almah's
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tenth birthday party, tasked with bringing the cake. When she
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failed to show up, her family, panicked, reported her missing.
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Matiseella was born in Monterey, Mexico, in nineteen fifty eight,
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later moving with her family to Los Angeles. After her disappearance,
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her siblings spent decades looking for her, her oldest sister
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refusing to move out of the family home in case
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she returned one day, but they found no trace of
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where she could be. When they were contacted by police
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back in December, two of her siblings immediately booked flights
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to California and gave DNA samples, and these samples, according
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to an article for Forensics MAC were crucial in giving
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Mattiseilla back her name. At the press conference announcing her identity,
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Alma and their brother Rinaldo told reporters that they remembered
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Matiicilla as being quote a joyful soul and a very
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loving sister. Alma said of Madiicella failing to show up
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to her birthday party all those years ago, quote, I
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knew there was something wrong, and she felt from the
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very start that her sister would never come back home.
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Alma also spoke of how emotional the years had been,
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especially in the weeks leading up to the identification. She said,
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according to NBC, quote, my experience has been totally a
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journey because you find out details and things that maybe
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you don't want to know. The horrible way she passed.
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You keep playing that movie in your head over and
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over of the last minutes and last seconds of her life.
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And Rinaldo spoke of how their mother endured so much
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pain after Madeceella disappeared. Quote, we knew how much it
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was hurting her up until the last day. We have closure.
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Now we can start the healing process now. After the
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official announcement, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department posted on social
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media Mattcella's name, saying quote, this case represents more than
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a conviction. It represents restoring a name, honoring a life,
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and bringing a long awaited answer to a family. As
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for why it had taken so long to identify her,
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even though she had been reported missing. This was mostly
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due to the time period in which she had been killed.
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There was significantly less communication between departments at that time,
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but due to the meticulous care in taking evidence and
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preserving it, it made her future identification possible when it
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otherwise might not have been. This is one of those
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cases that I've covered that I have consistently gone back
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to and looked for updates on, and I am so
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thrilled that after decades, Mattie Sella has her name back,
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just like Shirley's. So say, And while her mother died
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never knowing what happened to her, Maddi Sella's family has
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closure now and she can be buried and honored as
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she should have been. Both women got justice, Wilson Shust
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is still rotting in corkor in prison, and both women
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were able to be returned home to their families. This
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was the best possible outcome, and I'm glad the DNA
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DO project didn't give up when the task looked nearly impossible.
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As always, I thank you so much for listening, and
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I hope you have a wonderful week and I will
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see you in the next chapter of the Book of
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the Dead. Bye, guys, Another page closed. But the story
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isn't over for the families left behind. The pain doesn't
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end when the headline's fade. And for the victims, we
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owe them more than silence for our on salt cases.
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If you have any information, please reach out to local51200:32:11.759 --> 00:32:15.480
authorities or visit our show notes for links and resources.51300:32:16.160 --> 00:32:21.440
Someone out there knows something, Maybe it's you. Thank you51400:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.160
for listening to the Book of the Dead. If this51500:32:24.240 --> 00:32:27.119
story moved or spoke to you in some way, talk51600:32:27.160 --> 00:32:32.680
about it, share it, keep their names alive. Until next time.51700:32:32.880 --> 00:32:39.480
I'm Courtney Liso. Stay safe, stay curious, and stay vigilant,51800:32:39.839 --> 00:32:43.519
and remember the dead may be gone, but their stories51900:32:43.599 --> 00:32:45.000
will not be forgotten.
