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Forensic Files

News At 11

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A talented television news anchor was shot to death outside her home; it appeared to be a crime of passion, perpetrated by an obsessed fan. A police dog tracked the scent of the killer through the adjacent woods and back to the crime scene. Could the murderer be one of the onlookers, watching the police conduct their investigation?

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People on television and in movies attract attention everywhere they go,

0:05.0

but not all of the attention is welcome.

0:08.0

Trajectly, a television reporter in Michigan was killed outside her home

0:14.0

after she received numerous threatening letters.

0:18.0

A document examiner, a criminal profiler, and the police dog

0:23.0

all found evidence pointing to the same suspect.

0:28.0

But the most persuasive evidence came from the dog.

0:43.0

Diane Newton King found everything she was looking for in Battle Creek, Michigan.

0:48.0

We must do all in our power to support our men and women now fighting in the Middle East, knowing that...

0:54.0

She was a news reporter for the local television station.

0:57.0

At a nice home, was married and had two beautiful children.

1:01.0

Diane Newton King was a kind of woman when she walked into a room, eyes turned to look at her.

1:07.0

Not only because the way she looked with her attractive Native American looks, but she was a type of woman

1:13.0

who always had a smile on her face, was very animated, and people's eyes were just naturally drawn toward her.

1:19.0

Three and a half years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

1:23.0

Diane had a reputation as a tough, aggressive reporter.

1:27.0

She would push. I mean, to get a story, she would push.

1:32.0

And sometimes maybe she'd push hard.

1:35.0

Although Diane caught the viewer's attention, it wasn't always in the way she wanted.

1:42.0

She started receiving harassing phone calls and letters from an obsessed van.

1:47.0

It was a man who identified himself as a person who wanted to get in the industry and wanted to go to lunch with her and wanted to meet her.

1:54.0

And he became pestering her, sometimes calling as much as once a day.

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