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What happened on the fateful Monday in 1986?
Hey, Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. On a Monday afternoon in 1986, a detective sergeant in San Antonio, Texas sat in his office and puzzled over two separate cases that landed on his desk that morning. One was a missing persons case. A mother of two never showed up to work that morning at the clinic where she was a respected nurse, and none of her friends, coworkers, or family members could get in touch with her. The other case involved a murder. A body had turned up in a grassy field along a deserted two-lane road, and it appeared to be a teenage girl. The sergeant looked back and forth between the description of the missing mom and the pictures of the dead young woman. These women were so similar in appearance that he wondered if this may have been the work of a serial killer.
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Who was Kathy Lipscomb and what was her situation?
On a muggy Saturday night on June 7th, 1986, 29-year-old Kathy Lipscomb parked her car in front of an apartment complex in San Antonio, Texas, and reached into her purse for a tube of lipstick. Kathy tilted the rearview mirror toward her face and touched up her lips. And as she looked at her reflection and swept her platinum bangs to the side of her forehead, she almost didn't recognize herself. There was a glow on her face that she hadn't seen in a long time, not since she'd been a newlywed. These days, the happy parts of Kathy's marriage felt very far in the past. Over the last eight years, she and her husband had had two children, who they both loved deeply. But Kathy had come to feel increasingly trapped in her life, until just about a month ago when she and her husband had finally agreed to separate. To Kathy, that decision felt like it gave her back her freedom, and she knew that who she was seeing now in the rearview mirror of her brand new car was a brand new woman.
Kathy grabbed her purse from the passenger seat, got out of the car, and walked towards the large apartment building up ahead. And suddenly she felt really nervous, but it was the good kind of nervous. She had butterflies in her stomach because she was on the way to spend the night with her new boyfriend, who she had fallen completely in love with. Kathy's soon-to-be ex-husband had the kids, and for at least a little while, Kathy could put all her worries out of her mind. So she walked up two flights of stairs to the third floor of the building and then rang the doorbell of her boyfriend's apartment. Kathy heard footsteps drawing closer, and then the door opened up, and Kathy beamed at the man standing there.
The man grabbed Kathy and kissed her, let her inside, and shut the door behind them. The next evening, Kathy's soon-to-be ex-husband, 30-year-old Air Force Master Sergeant Bill Lipscomb, buckled their four-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter into the backseat of his car and began driving to the other side of town, where Kathy had just moved into her own apartment. Kathy was supposed to pick the kids up from Bill's house, but she hadn't shown up and she wasn't answering her phone. So now, Bill was driving the kids to her. When they got to Kathy's building, Bill knocked on the front door of Kathy's unit, which was on the ground floor, and he and the kids waited there in silence. When she didn't answer the door, Bill knocked again.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened on the fateful Monday in 1986?
0:00–2:06
2
Who was Kathy Lipscomb and what was her situation?
2:06–10:49
3
What clues were found at the crime scene?
10:49–20:10
4
How did the police identify the victim?
20:10
5
What evidence suggested a serial killer?
19:52–28:23
6
What were the implications of the victim's identity?
28:23
7
How did the investigation unfold after the discovery?
21:57–27:52
8
What are the potential connections between the victims?
27:52–38:18