150 - The Murder of Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

During the pre-dawn hours of Friday, October 27th, 2006, Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell initiated a traffic stop on a white van with no plates. Over the course of the next seven minutes a violent struggle would begin. Deputy Mitchell was shot and killed, he was just thirty-eight years old.

Investigators scoured the area in search of the white van but when they discovered it, it did not hold the answers they'd hoped but instead a larger, more confusing mystery. The van, found parked in a river, had two bodies inside.

Soon investigators began to wonder, had Deputy Mitchell been killed because he'd stopped a killer in the process of dumping bodies or, was it possible, someone known to the two victims had killed the Deputy and then them.

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0:30.4	In the pre-dawn hours, Sacramento County Dispatchers received a message from Deputy
0:43.5	Jeffrey Mitchell, notifying them that he was pulling over a white van for a license plate
0:48.2	violation. Seven minutes passed when suddenly Deputy Mitchell's radio clicked. Seconds
0:54.3	later it clicked again, then silence. Concerned, Dispatch tried to get a response, but there
1:00.7	was no answer. All units were directed to his last known location, but they never imagined
1:05.9	what they'd find. Deputy Mitchell had been shot and was lying motionless behind his vehicle,
1:11.8	his gun and handcuffs on the ground nearby. It was clear that a desperate and violent
1:16.6	struggle had occurred, resulting in Deputy Mitchell receiving a lethal head wound.
1:21.7	An urgent search began for the white van and the killer believed to be driving it.
1:26.9	Twelve hours later, investigators located the van, but what they hoped would provide
1:31.7	insight only deepened the mystery. Inside were two bodies, a man and a woman, though their
1:37.5	cause of death was unclear. Quickly, police began to wonder, had these two killed Deputy
1:43.2	Mitchell, or was it possible the officer had pulled over a killer in route to dumping
1:48.3	the bodies? This is Trace Evidence Episode 150, The Murder of Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell.
2:03.4	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco. Today we examine the terrible
2:09.5	murder of Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell. Before getting into the case,
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