Daisy’s friends, relatives, and neighbors are stunned by her senseless murder. Detectives look for answers, but their investigation stalls when they realize there are no witnesses and no reliable surveillance footage. As the months go by, Daisy’s community grows impatient and decides to take matters into their own hands. If the police won’t identify a suspect, then they’ll do it themselves.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
The news of Daisy's murder rattled everyone at her apartment complex. There was no making sense of what had happened there. So much of it just didn't add up.
It was hard. Like, how can it happen and nobody saw nothing, nobody heard anything?
That's Wendy Aldivia. She used to live in Daisy's apartment complex. And her mother actually still lived there at the time of Daisy's death. She rented the unit right below Daisy's family. Wendy was deeply invested in getting justice for Daisy. It wasn't just because she'd known Daisy since Daisy was a little girl.
Or because her son Jeffrey, who was 13 at the time, had been the one to identify Daisy's body to the police. It was also because one of Wendy's belongings ended up becoming a key piece of evidence. The blue patterned carpet that had been placed over Daisy's body. It was Wendy's.
I had two and I took one home and I left one for my mom. And then my mom said she didn't want it. That's why I threw it out. Mm-hmm. That's so wild. Yeah, no, and then wait. And then my neighbor, she was moving out at the time. And she said she was, she threw a lot of knives, like a lot of stuff out in the trash. So she's like, oh my God, imagine if they said it was me.
Because obviously the knives that she threw away had her fingerprints. It was her knife that she threw away?
Okay, I'll just say it is unclear whether the knives she threw away were in fact the murder weapon.
because we were all thinking about like all that stuff. We were having conversations and she was like, imagine if they come and they say it was us because it has our fingerprints. I'm like, well, they'll probably say it was us too because we have the carpet. The carpet was ours. You know, we were all trying to come to conclusions. Right.
Because you don't know what's going on and like no one's giving you information. No. And obviously the content sheriffs didn't come to us and be like, oh, look, we found this knife. We found this carpet or anything like that. No, we didn't know anything.
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Chapter 2: Who was Daisy, and what happened to her?
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Detectives had struck out on the six-pack. Neither of their witnesses had been able to identify the suspect, which to them either meant that Victor hadn't done it or that it would be that much harder to arrest him if he had. That must have been frustrating.
Yeah.
Could you talk about that?
Yeah, it was really frustrating. It was frustrating going home. Like, even if we catch him, we don't have—unless he confesses, we don't have Jack.
That's Ray Lugo. He works for the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, and he was the lead detective on this case. At that point, Lugo told me, he and his partner, Leo Sanchez, were still waiting for the DNA from the crime scene to be processed. Here's how Sanchez put it.
A lot of it depended on... um, the DNA evidence that was, that we recovered, uh, because there was a knife recovered close to her body, which we believed was the murder weapon. Um, and the big deal with that was try to determine whose DNA was left on that knife. Um, so, um, you know, and this DNA testing takes a little bit of time. It's not, it doesn't, it doesn't happen like on the TV shows.
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Chapter 3: Why is there confusion about the murder weapon?
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