Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today has been living in my head rent-free for months. It's one of those older cases that when I first learned about it, I'm like, how am I just learning about it? And if it was new to me, I had a feeling it would be new to a lot of you as well. And this is one where we got to go like

full crime junkie, going super deep, talking to the people who actually lived this story.

So even if you do think you know it, I promise I will give you something new. And I promise

it will leave you thinking long after this episode. Because while this is a rare solved case where the victim

actually survived, it will have you questioning the reliability of memory and how stories,

even the ones that feel straightforward, are always so much more complicated and live in the

gray when you dig deep into the details.

And that's what we're going to do today.

This is the story of Diana Diallo.

Music Thank you. So let me set the scene.

We're in Tustin, California, September 30th, 1979.

It's around 2 o'clock in the morning when a 19-year-old named Judy is startled awake by the sound of a voice calling her name.

And it takes her a second to, like, get her bearings.

Like, she even wonders if she is dreaming.

But it sounds like her downstairs neighbor, 20-year-old Diana Green.

So she goes to the window to see if she can like see anything out in the yard,

but she doesn't see anything. It's like too dark. So she crawls back into bed next to her husband. And what feels like 15 minutes later, she hears another voice, this time a man's voice.

And she hears the man say something like, I leave you alone for 10 minutes, half an hour, this is what happens to you.

So she kind of just lays in bed and listens in silence, probably holding perfectly still and not wanting to even breathe too loud, just trying to figure out what's going on.

And it's the man she hears again next. Judy,

Judy, please wake up. And this time she knows she's heard it. So she goes to the window again.

And outside, she sees Diana's husband, 21-year-old Kevin Green. And he's running like in and out

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