In 1977, actress Christa Helm was found stabbed and bludgeoned outside her agent’s home in West Hollywood, California. Detectives would learn about her infamous “love diary," which kept track of her lovers, but it had vanished. There were also tape recordings of her trysts with her celebrity boyfriends, but those were also missing. After sifting through Christa's past romantic relationships, detectives wondered if she was simply the victim of a random street robbery at the hand of a career criminal. “48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 10/4/2008. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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She was my movie star mommy. Someone has been walking around for 30 years having committed this heinous crime on my mother. I want to know what happened to her. My mom was killed February 12, 1977. I was nine. We found all kinds of things. Two huge boxes. All kinds of evidence, all kinds of interviews, all kinds of information that nobody had looked at before. They were just tucked away.
The crime scene where Krista Helm was murdered in 1977, she had left a party in West Hollywood and she was attacked and stabbed numerous times. She was a very good looking girl.
How's my technique coming?
Oh, you're doing fine. She was not against posing in seductive type photos.
She was a young Hollywood starlet, party girl. She hung out with Joe Namath, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty.
Jack Nicholson, the Shah of Iran. We knew that she kept a diary.
My mom was a very smart woman. I can definitely see her keeping track of things.
We don't know if there may have been extortion. A lot of people have told us that there's a diary that's missing.
They think that the diary was what was taken from her body when she died and that she was going to blackmail people with the diary. We don't know all the names in that book.
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