Murder Checks In

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	Patricia Lang was 36 years old when she took a job in Des Moines, Iowa to be closer to her
0:08.8	family.
0:10.6	She was relocating there from Denver and needed a place to stay until our new apartment
0:14.7	was ready.
0:18.1	So in August of 1993, she booked a room for a week at the Holiday Inn in West Des Moines.
0:25.8	When Patricia didn't job for work on Monday, a member of the housekeeping staff was sent
0:30.5	to a room to make sure she was okay.
0:34.5	Patricia was not okay.
0:36.3	The housekeeper found her body in the hotel room.
0:39.6	Patricia had been murdered.
0:44.0	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.
0:53.1	Paul Bush from the Iowa DCI Crime Lab was at the scene.
0:57.2	This was probably one of the more violent crime scenes that I'd been on in the fact that
1:01.9	the victim was hands were bound.
1:05.0	There was also a piece of cloth tied around her neck.
1:09.7	Patricia's body was on the floor and the room had been ransacked.
1:13.7	Investigator Bush tried to make sense of what he saw at the crime scene and determined
1:17.3	a possible motive.
1:19.4	When the room was the victim's purse or clutch wallet and I think there was over $200
1:24.2	yet still in her purse, there was no indication of a robbery type situation.
1:29.7	So the fact that the woman was naked from the waist down, it appeared again that we had
1:33.6	a sexual assault homicide.
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