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probably but i know it's been hot everywhere i

know definitely colorado um i i told you about that i saw a post i think it was like kktv said something about like out of 132 years of data that's been collected this is the hottest summer on record i

And I'm like, fuck.

Perfect fucking timing.

No they were just following basic standard protocol for preserving trace evidence But those cheap totally mundane paper bags essentially froze time Yeah they really did.

They captured this microscopic truth that would literally just sit on a shelf through i mean the birth of the internet Yes The turn of the millennium Decades of technological revolutions Yeah Exactly And today We are pulling our material From a December Twenty twenty Five news report This was filed by Lauren Watson For KKTV Detailing A major announcement From the Douglas County Sheriff's Office And it is quite the announcement .

It's unbelievable It's a report About how A piece of evidence That you the listener Probably have sitting In your kitchen Right now Literally Just a paper bag Solved a Thirty eight year old mystery Um it completely redefines How we should Think about cold cases Honestly Because Thirty eight Years as you said Is an excruciatingly Long time For a family To wait Oh God yeah But in the context Of forensic science It is the difference Between complete blindness And total clarity Wow Yeah thats a good way to put it Because we are looking At the scenario Where the Physical evidence Just remains static While the scientific methods Required to actually Interpret that evidence They completely evolved Around it Okay lets unpack this Because I wanna Make sure we anchor Ourselves in the geography And you know The timeline Thats established In this KKTV Report Sure yeah The baseline facts Right So the victimAt the centerOf this tragedy Wasthirty Year Old Rhonda Murray Fisher RightAndthe last known sightingof her alivewason thenightofMarchThirty firstNineteen Eighty Seven Which wasa TuesdayI believe YeahATuesdaynightShe waswalkingnorthOn MonacotowardLeetsdaleinDenver Andwe reallyneedto considerthe environmentalcontextofthat specificlocationindenver Whadoyoumean WellThe intersectionofMonacoand LeetsdaleEvenbackthen Its adenseurbanenvironment OhrightIts superbusy ExactlyYouhavecommercialbusinesses Youve got residentialzoningum Heavyvehiculartraffic Lotsofstreetlightingtoo Lots of lighting It isa populatedspace Aperson walkingthereis visibletomultiplepotentialwitnesses Itsnot somedarkalley Right Sotaking someonefrom thereisrriskyBut Thenarrativeshiftsso violentlytheverynextday Itreallyis Aprilfirstnineteeneightyseven Apassingdriverspots abody butshesistant anywhere near monaco and leeds dale Nowhere close No. Thereportstates shewasfoundoffanembankment OnSouthPerryParkRoad Andthatis southofsadeliawayoutinruraldouglascounty Andthat geographicaldisparitybetweenthepointof acquisitionandthe pointof disposalThatisthefirstmajorforensiccluewehaveto analyzehere Becauseitssuchadrasticchangeofscenery Exactly Youaremovingfromthishighlyvisiblebustlingurbancenter indenvercountyallthewaytoa remotelikepitchblackruralembankmentinatotaledlydifferentcounty Ialwayslookatthatkindofmovementas umlikeahuntinggroundversusa dumping ground dynamic Yes preciselyThatsaclassicbehavioralpattern BecauseyouusethecitytofindatargetrightTherearepeoplearoundmaybe youcanblendinor youknowFindsomeonewhosvulnerableinacrowd RightThe cityprovides theopportunity But then you take them out to the country because you need the isolation.

You need the dark to either commit the crime or just hide the evidence

Yeah, you need the privacy that the urban environment just doesn't afford you.

Right.

So you always have to clear that inner circle before you start looking outward for strangers.

But that initial suspicion clearly didn't pan out here because the KKTV report drops this detail that I think completely changes the scale of the investigation.