Early one morning, in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, a motorcyclist discovered the

body of a young woman.

She had been beaten, bound, strangled, and possibly raped.

The surrounding plants would tell more about her killer than any other single piece of

evidence.

When investigators from the sheriff's department arrived at the crime scene, they gathered

every possible piece of evidence.

The victim was nude except for a pulled-up tank top and a t-shirt wrapped around her neck,

which was probably used to strangle her.

Her wrists and ankles were loosely bound with shoelaces and what looked like picture-hanging

wire.

Nearby, investigators found a syringe, some articles of clothing, then they heard some

evidence.

It was a pager found deep in the grass a few feet from the body.

The discovery of the pager triggered a larger search and the photographer took some aerial

photographs.

There appeared to be a circular area of matted grass where an altercation possibly took place.

Police took the victims' remains to the medical examiner for identification and autopsy.

A fingerprint search identified the victim as 30-year-old Denise Johnson, a single mother

of two young children.

She was born and raised in an area of Phoenix known as the Projects.

She wasn't a bad girl.

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