Join Nancy for the second installment of Forensic Files February with an episode about a mysterious apartment fire that claims the life of a young medical student. Was it an accident? Arson? Or something even stranger and more sinister? With their crime scene in ashes and a possible murder suspect in the wind, detectives pull at their only thread: a microscopic piece of burnt fiber found on a pair of dirty jeans.

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Join Nancy for a Forensic Files Flashback as we revisit the saga of an aspiring model who gets her big break - only to mysteriously disappear from the picture.

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Original Episode "⁠Concrete Alibi" ⁠via YouTube.

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More on the episode below.

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The bright and sunny life of a Beverly Hills heiress turns dark and deadly when she falls under the spell of a mesmerizing mystery man — who also happens to be a dangerously manipulative murderer.

Want to know the full story?

A Death in California: A True Account of Love and Murder Among the Very Rich by Joan Barthell (1981)

The Case of the Lady and the Killer via the New York Times Magazine (9/27/1981)

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