Mr. Ballin

And Park actually felt pretty optimistic about it.

Because even though during the original investigation, they hadn't relied on DNA testing, you know, they couldn't really even do DNA testing.

Despite that, the investigators at the time had done a rape kit and saved all the evidence from the scene, like Barbara's clothes and even the dirt that was underneath her body.

Which meant that with the current advancements in DNA technology,

there was a good chance they could actually solve this thing.

Park had already sent a few items over for testing, but while he waited for the results, he was going over the details of the case to get a sense of how it was investigated back in 1974.

And he found it was a pretty unusual case.

The murder had initially been investigated as a personally motivated crime.

But while the case was cold, police had also begun to consider the idea that maybe Barbara had been murdered by the notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy, that this was not personal, that she was just one of many victims.

Ted Bundy had been arrested less than an hour away from where Barbara lived in Salt Lake City in 1975, just one year after her murder.

And he had been killing college women all over the West Coast, including several in Utah the same year Barbara was killed.

But investigators in the late 1970s had ruled Ted Bundy out after determining he'd been committing a different murder in Washington state at the same time Barbara was killed, so he could not have been her killer.

But it was still possible that Barbara had been killed by a different serial killer in the area.

1974 is notoriously known as the Year of Fear because there were so many killers operating in the United States at that time.

But as Park read through the notes, he found himself agreeing with the original investigator's first instincts, that Barbara's murder must have been personal.

Also, just the amount of times Barbara was shot seemed emotionally charged.

And so Park believed Barbara's boyfriend, Richard Finder, had to be the killer.

I mean, after all, Richard had been in the area at the time of the murder.

He basically had no alibi.

And, you know, he brought up the fact that there was a missing murder weapon when the public didn't even know that.