DNA Exposed the Killer After 48 Years | 1968 Cold Case Solved
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A 22-year-old woman left home to buy a hairdryer on a quiet Sunday afternoon… and never came back. For 48 years, her family lived with one terrifying question: who followed her out of that store? Detectives chased the wrong suspects for decades — until DNA finally exposed a violent serial predator hiding in plain sight. This is one of California’s most haunting cold cases.
The victim: Wendy Jo Halison, age 22
The date: 1968, Los Angeles
The suspect: Edwin Dean Richardson
DNA linked Richardson to the case in 2016, but by that time he had already died in a prison in Ohio.
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I feel sorry for her family, never knowing what happened. Thank God for those scientists who came up with DNA technology. It is helping so many cold cases to be solved!
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He won. If you find out it’s him after he’s dead than he won!
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You would think Police would, as a priority, check any paroles released to see if they were in the Area; involving checking with his Mother etc! Yes, it takes resources, but breaking it all down to smaller manageable parts, would have achieved the same result after 44 years!
And tell me in the comments… do you think Edwin Dean Richardson had many more victims that were never connected to him?
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This is a wonderful but sad story. All the testing that was done was somewhat fulfilling but all those tests do not supply you with the motive. Did I miss that part ? They neglected to mention if she was sexually assaulted which most likely was the motive.
Thank you for this.
I quite enjoyed it.
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Oh best believe god gonna punish this summbich with worst punishment ever
@willyslumpThank you for being real."...I'm
Starting too run into FAKE MURDER STORY'S....SO disappointing....
So you’re telling me cops didn’t go back and look at people who were recently paroled on similar charges?? Jesus!!
@kaydenceconrow5777This is almost word for word from LA Times article August 26, 2017. Did you get permission to steal this material?
@osandoval5335Less filler please.
@hughhynes7351Omg stop filibustering to fill the time it's so tedious
@VMM34Stunned to hear the name Joanna Boughner.
Our fathers were friends. This evil being broke her family. Senseless, just no reason.
He did get away with it. The narrator is too optimistic.
@truerosieSome people are such losers, who can't cope in life so they choose jail. Food provided and rent free. Don't have to work again.?
@susannamasciulli1173Just crazy on a quick Sunday shopping trip.
@susannamasciulli1173Women did not use handheld hairdryers, until the 1970s. I wonder if the murderer had given the hairdryer to his mother, or had returned it back to the store for cash?
@TheWiseowleyesCan you please do a video on South African criminal cases? It's a lot. You can choose which one you want to do a video on.
Thabo Bester
Moses Sithole
Ellen Plakkies
Inge Lotz
Anika Smit
The White Wolf murders
André Stander
The Capetown strangler
Wemmerpan murders and r8pes
Gert Van Rooyen case (unsolved)
Cape Town Prostitute Killer
Brett Kebble
Hazel Crane
Fosaville serial killer
Mpumalanga killings
Stompie Seipei
Brett Kebble (death still a mystery)
Brett Goldin
Sizzlers Massage Parlour massacre
I see I am not the only one who listens to these stories...
@FRANK-b6n6fI was born in 1969. When I was a kid I used to think about the moment, far into the future, when crimes would be solved by methods still unimaginable; criminals' impressions on objects, no one could picture what that would be. Now at almost 60 I am witnessing that, a bittersweet feeling pervading through though; the method is there, but it's not immediate or easy to trace. As a person who has lost family to crime, this strikes a chord.
He may have killed many. His pattern was truly sick.
What’s up with the math skills here ? He was 70 in 2006 . So he was born in 1946. In 1968, he was 22. And had just served an 8 yr sentence for armed robbery ? When he was 14 ? And that folks is AI for you. When you get channels like this , that stretch 5 minutes of content into 26 with AI facts, it’s sure disappointing…..
@canadiantraveller281I know the business about "we have to wait 24 hours before we investigate a missing person. They may show up before time's up. They're an adult, they can walk away if they want to." I read too many cases where people go completely against a reliable pattern of turning up on time or sooner, and then all of a sudden don't. It's a shame how many criminals die before they're proven to be guilty by DNA. Fascinating story, thanks for posting.
@AlanHenry-h9yThere will be an accounting, when Jesus returns.
@sandramartin9106You spelt her name wrong. Its Wendy Jo Halison. 0:16
@raerae6422Rachel Cooke, she disappeared 25 years ago in Georgetown Texas . No leads, nothing. I believe there is a murderer among the Georgetown people , her neighbors. May she RIP
@gdavis2020Often I wonder how many of these innocent sweet old people have done crimes and have never been caught. Where I live there is a wooded area where a lot of murdered women have been found and as today the murder has never been caught. I wonder where this person is walking around at.
@gailbird100This is sad
@bigbird62873How weird-I was in the neighborhood yesterday; Fairfax and Carthay-just a few blocks from LACMA, which I was visiting with friends.....
@sandyanarayanswami5708There is a higher court and God settles the books. No one gets away with anything
@JuanitaFlenerHamlinthere’s no way Richardson stopped at just three or four victims🤔
@JimsCaseFiles8Did Linda remary?
First you said her husband's name was Gil, but in the end of the video you say it's Tony.
How sad the police don't care to move quickly on looking for a missing person.
@PeoplespilatesHeartbreaking
@TrueCrimeAdvocateR I p Wendy
@sarahlovemusic6089Let me guess.!!!! Blames being poor ,blames the government,blames society,blames childhood trauma,blames the trailer park. Blames everyone and takes no personal responsibility. 😢
@GraciebobbyD🇺🇸this is so horrible...so glad they found this demon
In Texaa no stores were open to shop on Sunday in 1968
Bless these women
🎚️oh he'll be held accountable ..rest assured .
Why are these demons given chance after chance! ? ..these evil men . how could NO ONE SEE anything & when they do they still get away...
Would you please TELL US how they actually get these women alone!??...
So many evil people out there.
@bigboy-l6fPoor parents lived out their lives without ever knowing who killed their daughter. A special kind of hell
@anthonyparisella7224Man, women and children can’t even play or shop because of monsters.
@User14816She was very pretty. 🙏🏼
@sdannecker6944Yes. The criminal had many more victims. Cold cases should never be shelved, until closed. I hope that monster had a horrible period of imprisonment and the longest, most suffering demise of anyone in the history of mankind.
@tegg.7958I would gladly act as executioner for these pieces of sh-t as a volunteer. I hope the cons got to him in jail. In the shower. Daily. The death penalty must be applied for all murders and appeals must be limited.
@mullerk2If there was a competition for who could speak the fastest in a video you'd win hands down
@ForgetMeNot2022It is so incredibly sad when parents die without knowing who killed their child. The tragedy alone is unbearable to begin with, it goes without saying.
@Alexandra-dy2nsVery good video
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