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Linda was a very attractive girl.

She was so all-American.

She was there to photograph the Bunny of the Year contest.

I couldn't believe it.

Who would do something like that to this wonderful woman?

[woman] Then, over the next month,

four more women

were brutally murdered in Tampa.

Police called the summer of 1983 the "Summer of Hell."

If you're one of the Bunnies working at the club,

it must have been terrifying.

It could have been me...

or another Bunny.

I was frightened.

Was I safe?

Should I watch my back?

It's one of the most bizarre stories

in the history of Tampa Bay, no doubt.

[opening theme music playing]

[Jenna Bourne] It was Monday, July 11th, 1983,

early in the morning, around 07:00 a.m.,

and a man was on his daily morning walk

when he spotted something unusual.

At a dead end of Old Memorial Highway,

near a creek,

he found a woman's body.

She was face down,

had a towel over her head

and was nude from the waist down.

He ran to a neighbor's home

to use their phone to call

the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

They looked around and didn't find a purse,

a wallet or any kind of identification,

so detectives were not able to identify

who this woman was at the crime scene.

She had been shot four times in the head

with a small caliber weapon.

And they were able to find evidence of sexual assault.

[Jenna] The same day in Clearwater,

about half an hour away from where this body was found,

a group of kids finds this knit purse,

and turn that person to police.

[Dan] The cash was gone, but the credit cards were still in it.

The police saw that it belonged to a woman

named Linda Lanson, who lived in Tampa.

[Jenna] Police are trying to track down the owner of this purse.

They reached out to Linda's apartment complex,

and they find that she hasn't been seen for days.

But then detectives get a really big clue

when they discover where she was last seen in public.

And that is at the Suncoast Playboy Club in Saint Petersburg.

[Holly Madison] Playboy clubs were huge across the country.

When the first Playboy Club opened in 1960,

people were going out

for these long, like, three-martini lunches,

and they would want this really upscale night.

But by the 80s, things had really changed.

People were a lot more casual in their style of going out.

Playboy was still this giant worldwide brand

that everybody knew, super popular.

But business wise, they were having a lot of trouble.

So the Suncoast Playboy Club was struggling a little bit,

and in order to get more publicity and attention,

they would have publicity stunts

like the Bunny of the Year pageant.

[Kathleen Komarck] In 1983, I met Linda.

She was there to photograph

the Bunny of the Year contest.

And I was nominated.

I remember her being very pretty,

and very personable.

Linda was a very attractive girl,

but she didn't try to be flashy.

She was very shy.

She was sweet and nice.

[Jenna] Linda moved to Tampa from New York City,

got married, had a daughter

and wound up getting divorced.

Now she's a 41-year-old single mom,

renting an apartment in Tampa,

and she is trying to build

a new life for herself as a photographer,

while her seven-year-old daughter

is spending the summer with her dad in Orlando.

She was starting to get some regular gigs

with a Tampa radio morning show called Zoo.

♪ Q Morning Zoo ♪

♪ Get up with the Morning Q Zoo ♪

Good morning to you from the Zoo. Who's this?

Radio was red hot,

and I was the program director

and morning DJ on Q105 radio station.

We would go out and do live shows

from different places around Tampa Bay.

And I remember our promotion director

mentioned to me that we were going to have

a new publicity photographer,

a girl named Linda Lanson.

And she would take pictures of what was going on there

and all the personalities mingling with the fans.

She'd be sneaking around taking pictures.

You never knew when she was gonna pop up.

I remember I was asking her

about why she was so particular

about taking so many damn pictures.

And she says, "I wanted just the right pictures,

because I got to make money.

This is my job.

I'm a single mom, and I don't depend on anybody.

I do it myself."

She kind of... didn't quite tear up,

but she really loved her child.

She was looking to grow in this new career.

And to be hired to take the photos

at the Bunny of the Year contest

at the Suncoast Playboy Club,

that would have been an incredible opportunity.

[Holly] The Suncoast Playboy Club opened in the spring of 1981.

It was right on the beach.

It's a town that caters to a lot of tourists.

[Scott] I was single and I loved to mingle,

and Tampa was burning up.

Florida was such a huge destination in the 80s.

This is, like, right when Miami Vice was coming out.

It was so glamorized.

It had a very distinct look,

a very distinct style.

And everybody was excited to go there.

I began working at the Suncoast Playboy Club

when I decided to audition.

And I'll never forget the day 'cause I was very excited.

I was so broke at the time.

I had to borrow a bathing suit.

I had to borrow a friend's high heel shoes.

There were about 1,500 beautiful women

that came for the audition.

And...

they hired only, I believe, 25.

And I was one of the original Bunnies.

[Collene Knowlson] I was 23.

I was one of the older Bunnies.

Almost all the other girls

were 18, 19, 20 years old.

[Marilyn Menendez-Arnett] We did a lot of trips

where we would go out,

and maybe do a golf tournament

or a boxing ring and hold the cards.

But it was forbidden

to fraternize with any of the guests.

So when we were out in public,

we always hung out with other Bunnies.

[Holly] Being a Bunny is kind of like being in a sorority

because it can be really supportive,

but it can get really competitive, too.

When the Bunny of the Year contest came around,

you're competing against some of your closest friends,

so that can definitely bring some tension.

[Marilyn] I think there was a little bit of jealousy.

It was a very prestige position.

Being named Bunny of the Year is like

being chosen to be a Playboy Bunny,

but on steroids.

The Bunny of the Year contest was held in each club.

And there was quite a significant package when you won.

There were prizes involved.

I remember one of them was a diamond ring,

and there was cash prize.

What was so special about wanting to be Bunny of the Year,

I think, for me personally, was

I knew I would get a chance

to visit the mansion in Los Angeles.

And I would get to meet Hugh Hefner.

[Holly] Hugh Hefner must have been a very mysterious person

to a lot of the Bunnies that worked around the country.

They would never have met him.

He didn't really travel too much.

[Marilyn] The Playmates, are so different

from the Playboy Bunnies.

The Playboy Bunny is more of a high-class waitress.

A Playmate is someone who's in the magazine,

and is usually at the Playboy Mansion.

So it was a chance

to mingle with the Playmates...

for ten days.

The Bunny of the Year was very important for the club

because it generated business.

It got a lot of guests involved

in picking the winner.

It's not only an important night for the club,

but it's an important night

for an up-and-coming photographer, Linda Lanson.

This could potentially be a huge opportunity.

On the night of the Bunny of the Year contest,

the nominees were Bunny Kim,

Bunny Chanda and myself.

I remember our Bunny Mother introducing me

to this lovely woman, Linda, the photographer,

and if we want, we would be able

to have copies of the photographs,

so I was, like, very excited about that.

[Holly] Bunny Kim, Bunny Kathy and Bunny Chanda,

these women all look like

the typical 1980s Playboy Bunny.

They've got the big curly hair.

They're all very thin.

They have that...

almost like purplish, bluish eye shadow

that was really in style back then,

but they all look gorgeous.

[Marilyn] The Bunnies were able to vote,

the guests were able to vote.

I would give everyone a slip

that they could cast their votes,

and I would definitely always put in a plug for Chanda.

Bunny Chanda's real name was Carolyn Merricks.

She was a very good Bunny.

Everybody loved her.

She was genuine. She was elegant.

She was educated, smart.

The customers would come in and ask to sit in her station.

[Marilyn] I was closest to Bunny Chanda.

We weren't the all-American girl,

blonde, tall.

Bunny Chanda was the only African American

that worked at our club.

And being of a Latin background,

I just felt that I didn't fit in.

So... I wanted Chanda to win.

[Holly] Despite Playboy being a platform for male fantasy,

it was progressive on issues like sex and race.

Hef was very inclusive for the time,

having African American models

on the cover of layboy and in layboy .

If you think of that first cover

with the first solo African American model,

it's so iconic.

It's one of the most memorable layboy covers even to this day.

So I can only imagine how exhilarating

the night of the Bunny of the Year pageant was for Chanda.

[Kathleen] It was very exciting.

I was literally shaking.

They'd call us up individually.

"Why do you want to be Bunny of the Year?"

Gosh, I was so nervous.

I wasn't used to standing up and speaking

in front of a crowd of people.

I remember Linda was very capable, moving around quite a bit,

to get the best shots from every angle.

And then they were gonna announce the winner.

And we're all just anxiously awaiting.

They announced Chanda had won Bunny of the Year.

Everybody wants to win.

But I definitely was happy for her.

This is such an exciting, fun,

joyous event.

And these women have no idea that...

two of them...

will be murdered.

[Dan] The sheriff's deputies

see the body of a woman lying in the high grass

on Memorial Highway.

And that started an investigation

to figure out who she was and what had happened to her.

So the police produced a sketch

that they issued to the local media,

and there was a call out of,

"If you think you know who this person is,

call us."

And Linda Lanson's ex-husband...

called the sheriff's office

and said that it looked like her.

Shortly after, Tampa police found her car

abandoned on a residential street in Tampa,

and the windows were down and the keys were in it.

[Jenna] Now the investigators have Linda's car and her purse,

so they bring Linda's ex-husband in

to see the Jane Doe...

and he confirms that...

that is the woman he used to be married to.

Of course, they're gonna think of Linda's ex-husband as a suspect,

but they find out he's got an alibi.

So detectives rule out Linda's ex-husband.

And when detectives ask her friends and family,

none of them can think of a single person

who would want to hurt her.

[Dan] Tampa police were able to lift

a fingerprint from her car window,

but without anybody to compare it to,

it didn't produce any leads.

Detectives tried to retrace Linda's steps,

and they determined that the night before she vanished,

she was hired to photograph

the Bunny of the Year contest

at the Playboy Club in Saint Petersburg.

I came into work

and I approached a coworker, and I said

"So, when do you think we're getting the photographs?

I'm so excited to see them."

She said, "Well, unfortunately,

it's gonna take quite a while." And I said, "Why?"

And she said they found the photographer, Linda, murdered

the night after she left the club.

And the Police Department are keeping the photographs as evidence."

I was devastated.

I couldn't believe it.

Who would do something like that to this wonderful woman?

[Holly] When the Bunnies at the club learned

that Linda had been murdered,

that must have just been absolutely terrifying.

Of course, detectives went to the Playboy Club

to talk to everyone about anything

they might have noticed

since she was found right after' photographing that event.

[Marilyn] I told the detectives,

Linda left about 1:00 a.m. or 2:00 a.m. by herself,

and I did not see her flirting with anyone or drinking.

I told them that when I would leave the Playboy Club

after working a shift,

it was usually about 2:30 a.m., 3:00 a.m.

I did not always feel safe.

[Collene] The club could have done better by having

security walk us out

because there were times when there were people

that were lurking out in the parking lot.

When it comes to working at a restaurant environment

where there's a bunch of, you know, scantily-clad women,

it can be so easy for creeps and criminals

to hide in plain sight.

[Marilyn] When the detectives came to ask questions,

it was basically,

"Talk to this one. Talk to that one,"

and "Okay, move on to the next."

I really don't feel that

the detectives really took it seriously

when they interviewed us.

And the investigators were not able

to speak with Bunny Chanda

'cause she had already left for her trip

to the Playboy Mansion.

It was scary.

[Jenna] Detectives also searched Linda's apartment,

looking for clues, to see if there's any items

that will indicate what led to her murder.

[Dan] Detectives find a dark room

in her apartment she had set up,

so that she could develop the photographs that she took.

When they're looking in Linda's dark room,

they see that she has taken a lot of photographs

of Scott Shannon.

[Jenna] Linda's friends tell detectives that...

she had mentioned

having a crush on Scott Shannon.

It was a person in her life

that the detectives felt like they needed to question.

[Scott] When the detective called me and told me

that Linda had been murdered,

I... [stammers]

I... I was stunned.

They started asking me questions,

whether or not I knew Linda.

And I said, "Why are you asking me?"

He told me that "she had an affection for you.

Did you have a relationship with her?"

I'm trying to digest the fact that this girl,

who I knew had been brutally murdered,

and then they're talking to me

like I might be a suspect.

I said we worked together,

and I thought she was wonderful,

but no, I did not date her,

or have any relationship with her.

I had no inkling

that she had a crush on me at all.

The last time I saw Linda

was when we were doing our

farewell orning Zoo show

before I left for New York.

She gave me a big hug and said, 'We're gonna miss you."

When I told them that I was living in New York when it happened,

and I could prove that,

they seemed to understand.

Well, after I hung up with a detective from Tampa,

I started thinking,

"Who in the hell...

would kill that girl?"

After several weeks, the leads just sort of dried up.

Detectives are no closer

to finding the killer of Linda Lanson.

And then a month after Linda Lanson was killed,

Barbara Grams was murdered.

[Dan] She was 19,

and she was attacked and killed

while she was walking home from her job

at the Tampa Bay Center mall,

and she was found the next morning, uh,

behind a dentist's office.

The crime scene was similar to the Linda Lanson case.

Barbara Grams was also found

with no pants on her body,

and she was barefoot.

And it was evident from the scene

that she had been disrobed.

[Jenna] Similar to Linda Lanson,

a rape test found that she had also been raped.

They didn't know if these murders were connected.

[Jenna] And then over the next month,

four more women were brutally murdered in Tampa.

It was a very scary time.

Was I safe?

Should I watch my back?

Was there a serial killer out there?

[Jenna] Woman after woman after woman

kept turning up dead in public.

They were all brutally murdered.

Some of them were found partially undressed,

and some of them were raped.

Police didn't know if these murders were connected,

if these were all separate violent crimes,

or if Tampa had a serial killer on their hands.

People were scared.

Police called the summer of 1983 the "Summer of Hell."

To know that young women

are being targeted and murdered

at the rate that they were,

I can only imagine if you're one of the Bunnies working at the club,

and you're hearing about all this,

it must have been terrifying.

We never were alone.

We would have a buddy system.

Downtown was not a place to be

by yourself as a woman in the middle of the night.

Then in October, 1983, three months after Linda's death,

an arrest is made in the murder of 19-year-old Barbara Grams.

When the investigators were examining Barbara Grams' body,

they take note

of a suspicious mark that is on her left cheek.

And the medical examiner immediately identifies the mark as a bite mark.

At that time, bite mark evidence

was becoming a popular thing in criminal investigations,

but it wasn't something that the detectives

found in the other cases that summer.

So detectives started talking to different people in the neighborhood,

and asking them to give samples of their teeth

to compare it to the bite mark.

They thought if they could find teeth,

that matched that bite mark,

they might be able to solve the murder.

And they went around taking bite imprints.

And they enlisted the help

of this famous odontologist Dr. Richard Souviron,

who had been instrumental

in the conviction of Ted Bundy,

to try to help them match the bite mark.

[Dan] One of the men who agreed to give a sample

was Robert DuBoise, an 18-year-old kid who lived in Tampa.

At the time, he was working at an auto upholstery shop in Tampa.

His family had lived in the neighborhood

where Barbara Grams was found.

And as police were investigating that crime,

one of the witnesses pointed them at DuBoise

and said that he was somebody they might want to look at

because, supposedly, he was a troublemaker in the neighborhood.

And so that was enough evidence

to say that they had a suspect.

Robert DuBoise is adamant from the beginning that he is innocent.

But detectives were focusing on this bite mark.

It was a few more years before DNA evidence

started being used in criminal cases.

Bite mark evidence in the 1980s

was considered to be as good as a fingerprint.

And when a forensic dentist compared that model

to the mark on Barbara Grams,

he opined that it was DuBoise teeth

that created this bite mark.

And that became enough for the police to arrest Robert DuBoise

and charge him with Barbara Grams' murder.

He ultimately was found guilty by a jury,

and he ended up being sentenced to death.

Detectives aren't able to connect him to Linda Lansen

or any of the other women who were killed.

But after Robert DuBoise is arrested,

the murders, it seemed to stop.

[Dan] So, by that time, there isn't a lot else

that's happening with Linda Lansen's case.

[Scott] I spent some time thinking about Linda.

She was so all-American.

Just a sweet, nice kid.

And I thought how terrible it was

that whoever did it tore her away.

So eerie, in so many different ways,

it kind of shook me up.

The Summer of Hell sounds absolutely terrifying.

And then, in the fall of 1983, the Suncoast Playboy Club closes.

They just weren't making the money

that they needed to stay open.

[Holly] The trouble with the Playboy clubs in the early '80s

is they weren't really capturing that aspirational mystique

that the Playboy clubs used to have.

[Kathleen] We found out quite abruptly, and I was really surprised.

I was one of the original Bunnies.

I worked from day one I was hired

till the day it closed.

We were crying on the last night of the club closing.

And I thought, "Oh, this is the best job I ever had.

This is gonna last forever." [chuckles] You know.

I wish it would have.

It was the end of an era.

[Kathleen] After the Playboy Club closed,

several of us would get together and go out.

[Collene] I stayed friends with quite a few of the girls,

and we had a little mini sort of reunion.

About a year after the club closed,

the owners of the club took us out on a boat.

Bunny Kathy was there with us.

Chanda was there with us.

Chanda didn't mention anything about her dating life to me,

but she seemed happy.

She was working as a cocktail waitress at Tierra Verde.

It was a jazz club, but her aspiration

was to become a TV news personality.

We were all happy to catch up about what we were doing

and looking forward to.

[Kathleen] It was lively. It was fun. It was great

to see the other girls and just kind of celebrate.

The Bunnies still maintained a tight-knit sorority,

forever connected by their time as Bunnies.

And then the hell that was the summer of 1983

comes crashing back with a vengeance.

It's been a year since the Suncoast Playboy Club's

Bunny of the Year contest

and the murder of Linda Lansen.

And a woman went to her sister's apartment,

which was not far from where the Suncoast Playboy Club had been,

and saw her sister on the floor covered in blood.

She had been stabbed to death.

When investigators are on the scene,

she told them her sister was Carolyn Merricks.

As far as she knew Carolyn wasn't dating anybody

or living with anybody at the time.

But that she was a cocktail waitress at a resort in Tierra Verde.

And she used to work at the Suncoast Playboy Club,

going by the name Bunny Chanda.

And she won Playboy Bunny of the Year at the club the year before.

It was a total shock

to not only us at the club, but to the entire community.

It made no sense, and I was devastated.

And still when I think about it, I become tearful.

[Collene] It was devastating to hear

that something like that would happen

to someone like her.

And then when we found out some of the details

of her being stabbed to death,

you think it's personal.

[Jenna] Another woman is found murdered,

who was at the Suncoast Playboy Club's

Bunny of the Year contest in 1983.

But unlike Linda, Carolyn's body was found

in a private place in her own apartment.

There weren't any signs of forced entry,

leading law enforcement to believe

it may have been someone she knew,

and the murder weapon was different.

But detectives were looking to find out

whether these cases were connected to the Suncoast Playboy Club,

and so they reached out to the people who were at the Playboy Club.

[Marilyn] Talking with the investigators,

it was definitely an interrogation is what I felt.

Who did I know? Who was there?

Who did she hang out with?

They really thought it had to be someone inside

rather than a stranger.

I do remember Sinbad was a good friend of ours,

that kind of hung out with us.

More as protection maybe.

However, they really focused in on him.

Could he be someone that might have done this?

And, of course, he was cleared.

I also thought it could be due to winning the Bunny of the Year

because Chanda was then sent

with all the other Bunnies of the Year from different clubs

out to the Playboy Mansion.

[Collene] I got the feeling

that she felt a little uncomfortable being there

because she didn't discuss a lot of what happened there.

So there were a lot more things that went on

that maybe she wouldn't have wanted to take part in.

[Marilyn] I don't know if anything sketchy happened

when Chanda went to the mansion.

Chanda truly kept her entire personal life private.

A lot of people didn't even know where she lived.

A lot of people didn't even know she had a child,

and that could have been to her demise.

Because I believe if we would have known more,

we might have been able to help.

Detectives were looking to interview people

trying to get to know Carolyn better to solve her murder.

No one wants another Summer of Hell.

But the investigation into Carolyn Merricks' murder went nowhere.

Her case went cold.

[Marilyn] Total devastation is what her sister must have gone through.

It was so tragic.

[Dan] It just becomes frustrating.

There were several murders that were still unsolved, including Linda's.

When I think about the situation,

I think about her daughter

and what it was like to grow up

thinking about your mother and how she was murdered.

And then the complications

of the whole case that went cold for so long.

Oh, my God, what an injustice.

In Linda's case, there were rape kit slides

that were, uh, taken during her autopsy.

There was the bloody towel that they found on Linda's body.

There was a fingerprint on Linda's car window,

but DNA technology was not available in 1983.

It didn't become routinely used until really the'90s,

and it didn't really get advanced until even after that.

More than three decades later,

there was a big break into-- Of the Summer of Hell cases.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Today is an important day for justice.

Justice for the family of a victim,

and for the man convicted of the murder

and attempted rape

of 19-year-old Barbara Grams back in 1983.

[Dan] Even though he was sentenced to death,

Robert DuBoise always adamantly denied

that he was at all involved in Barbara Grams' murder.

For almost 37 years,

he had made efforts to try to prove that he was innocent,

including asking the courts for DNA testing.

And in 2020 DuBoise

was represented by the Innocence Project.

As they conducted their investigation

they became aware

that there were samples from the crime

that were taken during Barbara Grams' autopsy that were still stored

in the the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office.

[Jenna] When investigators examine Barbara Grams' rape kit,

they find DNA matching two men.

Neither of them are Robert DuBoise.

This is painful and tragic, but it's the truth.

And when you tell the truth, justice is done.

Our office has identified a man

wrongfully convicted of murder

after spending 37 years behind bars.

Robert DuBoise was exonerated for the murder of Barbara Grams.

Now, they had this DNA,

and they needed to try to determine,

well, whose DNA is this?

Also, the investigators

were able to identify DNA

on rape kit slides

that were taken during the Linda Lansen case.

They were able to determine that the DNA

was a match with the DNA that they had

in the Barbara Grams case.

So, they put the samples

into the National DNA Database.

And when they did that,

they got a match.

Thirty seven years after Linda Lansen

took the final photographs of her life

at the Suncoast Playboy Club,

Tampa investigators have matched the DNA in her rape kit to two men.

Amos Robinson and Abron Scott.

Both, Amos Robinson and Abron Scott,

were serving life sentences in Florida's prison system

for a murder of a young man

they decided to target for a robbery

three months after Linda Lansen was killed.

In addition to the DNA from Linda's body,

investigators we were able to identify

the DNA of Abron Scott on the bloody towel

that they found on Linda's body.

[Jenna] So detectives go to question Amos Robinson.

Amos Robinson completely denied

that he was the person responsible

for the murders of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams.

[Jenna] But in March 2024,

the other suspect in Linda's case, Abron Scott,

told detectives that he and Robinson are guilty

of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams' rape and murders,

according to the Tampa Bay Times,

and they report that he is cooperating

with the prosecution

and is going to testify against his former friend in this case.

[Dan] The court case against Amos Robinson

and Abron Scott is still ongoing.

And so there's certain details that haven't become public yet.

From what we now understand with all this new information that's come to light,

Linda Lansen, after an incredible night

photographing this Bunny of the Year contest

at the Suncoast Playboy Club

was driving home

and has a chance encounter with two criminals

who rape her and shoot her in the head.

One of the really disturbing and tragic things about the case

is it seems like it was a random crime.

Linda wasn't doing anything to put herself at risk.

It was really just kind of happenstance

that this ended up happening to her,

and it's all the more tragic because of that.

In addition to the murder that Amos Robinson and Abron Scott

were convicted of in 1983,

Abron Scott has pleaded guilty

to the murder of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams.

Amos Robinson awaits trial.

They are considered persons of interest

in one other unsolved case that occurred in Tampa in September 1983

during the Summer of Hell.

It's clear that Robinson and Scott

couldn't have murdered Carolyn Merricks

because by the time she was killed in 1984,

those two men were already locked up.

[Holly] Carolyn Merricks' murder is still unsolved.

You want the victims' families,

of course, to get that closure,

but then you remember that it never brings that person back.

It's such an outrage that Chanda's case

remains cold to this day.

[Kathleen] Forty four years later, when I think about Bunny Chanda,

the pain is still there.

And we have a saying.

"Once a Bunny, always a Bunny." Because it was so special.

And Chanda is there with us in spirit, though, I do know that.

There are so many twists and turns and it's a terrible tragedy.

You have these two amazing women

with their lives ahead of them,

with so much potential.

[Jenna] Linda's daughter had to grow up without her mother,

her family.

Her mother, her sister, had to continue on

without their loved one.

[Holly] She was ready for the next step in her life,

starting a new career.

She was a mom, she was so loved,

and it's just heartbreaking.

Carissa Fair had the perfect look for Playboy,

but people felt like she had secrets.

She was about to launch this huge career, and now

you have homicide detectives trying to talk to you.

Five people had been murdered.

He dubbed them "The children of thunder."

And then she just disappeared.