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On the Case with Paula Zahn Season 28 Episode 1
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00:00Do you believe you heard the killer coming down the stairs as you were trying to get into the
00:08house? To this day, I do. He was still there when I came home. I entered the bedroom. I saw
00:22Robin naked on the floor. I was screaming for help. To come home and find your 11-year-old
00:28like that, just heart-wrenching. I started doing CPR. I had to keep trying. I thought
00:36I'd get a miracle. I thought for sure that God would let me bring life back into her.
00:45This was somebody that had something against the family. The terror was extreme. No one
00:55had a clue who it was. We lived in fear. It was shocking to think that this type of evil
01:03was roaming our streets. Everyone was a suspect to me. My partner at the time used to say,
01:10we have the lock. We have the DNA. We just need the key. How do you think you were able to take
01:16the trauma you experience into advocacy for your daughter? In the beginning, I wanted to die,
01:26but I was going to find this monster that killed her. He was out there.
01:31Hi, I'm Paula Zahn, and tonight we're on the case in Cape Coral, Florida, a quaint city known for its
01:52breathtaking waterfront views. But that beautiful backdrop became the unlikely setting for a terrifying
01:59double homicide when 11-year-old Robin Cornell and 32-year-old Lisa Story were brutally murdered
02:06in their own beds. The crime scene quickly raised many puzzling questions, but the answers were elusive,
02:15and the case may have never been solved if not for one woman's relentless crusade to get justice for two
02:23families. May 10, 1990. It was just after four on a humid Florida morning when Jan Cornell raced to the
02:39front door of her two-story condo. Even though it was still hours before dawn, the 38-year-old mother
02:46was already late for her shift at a nearby hospital. She had accidentally dozed off at her boyfriend's
02:54apartment the night before. I panicked when I realized I had fallen asleep. I had to get showered
03:01and go to work. Still, Jan was cautious to be quiet. She didn't want to wake up her 11-year-old
03:08daughter Robin or their new roommate, her co-worker Lisa Story. What happened when you got to the front
03:16door of your home? I put my key in the lock and went to open the door to go in, but the bottom lock
03:22was locked on the door. Jan was frustrated. The handle lock was broken and could not be open from
03:31the outside. She had even reminded Robin and Lisa about the problem as she left for her boyfriends
03:37the night before. I said, don't lock the bottom lock because if you do, I'm going to have to wake
03:44you up. I won't be able to get in. Jan now banged on the door, still unaware of the nightmare that
03:52awaited her inside. I'm saying their name, Lisa Robin, and I heard footsteps. Jan expected the front
04:04door to open, but it never did. Confused and now worried, Jan looked for another way into the condo.
04:14I ran around to the side and when I got on the patio, my sliding glass doors were open
04:21and the verticals were blowing through them. The fluttering blinds send a chill through Jan.
04:34Did things seem out of place? Yeah, the kitchen light was on and the ironing board was out.
04:42There were pictures laying flat on the ironing board. The pictures were of her two daughters,
04:4911-year-old Robin and 19-year-old Jenny, who had just moved out of the house a few weeks before.
04:57Why would those pictures be there?
05:01That's when I really panicked and ran up the stairs.
05:05Jan glanced into her new housemate Lisa's stories room first. It appeared that her friend was sleeping
05:13on her side, facing away from the door. Then she looked across the hall and saw her daughter,
05:21Robin, on the floor.
05:27What did you actually see?
05:29When I entered the bedroom, I saw Robin. She had a rolled up pillow underneath her abdomen and she was naked.
05:39Jan was stunned. She grabbed her 11-year-old and cradled her in her arms. She was cold to the touch.
05:52She began shouting at her friend Lisa, assuming the 32-year-old was somehow responsible.
06:00I was screaming horrible things to her. You need to get up and help me.
06:04But Lisa didn't respond. Jan grabbed the phone, called 911, and desperately tried to perform CPR
06:15on her daughter. The strength you have is extraordinary to try to bring your daughter
06:21back to life. I knew when I touched her, she was gone. But I had to keep trying.
06:28I thought I'd get a miracle. I thought for sure that God would let me breathe life back into her.
06:36But there were no miracles that morning, only heartbreak.
06:46Minutes later, first responders arrived and tried to get information from Jan.
06:51But she was so hysterical, she couldn't speak. She simply pointed to the upstairs bedrooms.
06:59It was then that her thoughts returned to her friend, Lisa Story.
07:05When the paramedics came down, I said, did you wake her up? What did she say?
07:11And they said, she's dead.
07:12A second wave of pain washed over Jan Cornell.
07:20It was now clear that someone had broken in and murdered her daughter, Robin, and her new housemate,
07:29Lisa Story.
07:30As Jan tried to process that devastating news,
07:40lead detective Todd Everly arrived at the crime scene
07:43to begin investigating the double homicide.
07:47Describe to me what you saw when you entered the home.
07:52It's a two-story townhouse.
07:55When we started walking upstairs, we noticed some jewelry on the steps.
08:00We started collecting that evidence and photographing it and bagging it.
08:04And then we got to the spare bedroom.
08:08That's where Lisa Story, who was renting the room, she just moved in.
08:13In fact, Lisa hadn't even unpacked yet.
08:18But her personal items were strewn all over the room.
08:22Every box was completely gone through.
08:25It was like a tornado hit the room.
08:30We found Lisa dead on the bed.
08:37She was partially clothed, turned on her side, a pillow half covering her head area.
08:45Was it obvious how she was killed?
08:48At that time, we were suspecting that it was asphyxiation.
08:51Detective Everly then moved to the other bedroom, where Robin Cornell had been murdered.
09:05We found her on her back.
09:07She was completely naked from chest down.
09:10Based on the bruising on Robin's face and neck, police theorized that she had been smothered.
09:19The grisly scene convinced police that the 11-year-old had been sexually assaulted.
09:25Was there anything missing?
09:30Yes.
09:31Lisa's checkbook was gone, some credit cards, her ID.
09:36Investigators also discovered that a new watch Lisa had engraved for her boyfriend had been stolen.
09:44The packaging was opened and found on the bed.
09:47While officers documented what was taken, crime scene investigators diligently sifted through the condo for anything the killer may have left behind.
10:00What evidence did you collect at the crime scene?
10:02We took hair and fiber from the bodies, any type of fluids that were visible.
10:09We took well over 100 pieces of evidence from that crime scene.
10:13But so far, none of that evidence pointed investigators to a suspect.
10:24They hoped that Jan Cornell's story might help them make sense of the chaos and provide a lead on how the killer had entered her home.
10:35When Jan got home, she came around here to the side, found this gate standing wide open, as well as the sliding glass door.
10:43This is where police believe the killer entered and exited, as well.
10:50Jan then gave detectives another valuable clue when she mentioned the photos of her daughters that had been displayed on her ironing board.
11:00Police saw that as a message left by the man responsible for the double homicide.
11:06It was like scripted.
11:08He took these pictures down from the walls and placed them on an ironing board, so when you walked in, you would see them.
11:18Investigators believe there was only one reason the killer would have staged the crime scene in such a cruel way.
11:25There was some type of revenge motive that we had to look at.
11:32This was somebody that had something against the family or even Jan herself.
11:39As detectives waded through the mayhem left in the wake of the murders of 11-year-old Robin Cornell
11:58and 32-year-old Lisa Story, they began to formulate a shocking theory of the crime.
12:06It appeared the two victims had been carefully chosen by a sadistic killer.
12:15But why?
12:16Police believed their only hope at answering that question relied on the memories of a grief-stricken mother
12:25who had just lost a close friend and her youngest child.
12:31What was Robin like?
12:33Robin was very easygoing, always smiling.
12:39It just brought so much joy.
12:42Robin loved sports and the outdoors.
12:45She and her best friend, Jolie Wilson, were inseparable.
12:51She was just the nicest person.
12:54The way she made me feel was like I mattered.
12:57Jan was single, my mom was single, and I just totally trusted her, and it was awesome.
13:07Friends and family saw a maturity in Robin that was well beyond her years.
13:12Robin was only 11 years old, but I understand she had some pretty big dreams.
13:18What did she see for herself?
13:20Oh, my God.
13:20She just wanted to be a writer.
13:22She wrote little stories and poems about everything.
13:26Jan desperately wanted Robin to have everything she needed to achieve her goal.
13:31But as a single parent, money was tight.
13:34That's why she made an offhand offer to her friend Lisa Story to rent the empty bedroom in her condo after her older daughter, Jenny, had moved out.
13:45About a week later, Lisa said, were you serious?
13:50And I said, yeah.
13:57Those closest to Lisa Story remember just how excited she was about the opportunity.
14:03Oh, my goodness.
14:06She was like, oh, I can't wait for you to see it.
14:08You guys will have to come over.
14:11What was Lisa's personality like?
14:14She was very outgoing, very friendly.
14:18Everybody knew who she was.
14:20She liked most everybody.
14:22It was that easygoing spirit that made Lisa seem like the ideal housemate for Jan and her younger daughter.
14:29But that perfect match had ended in the worst way possible on the very first night.
14:41Her brother called us on the phone.
14:44He said, Lisa's been murdered.
14:47And I said, what?
14:50Loved ones told police it was impossible for them to believe that Lisa was the intended target of the attack.
14:58She simply had no enemies.
15:02And that forced detectives to start the investigation by retracing the hours leading up to the murders.
15:12Jan said, after her boyfriend and Robin helped Lisa move the final boxes upstairs to her new room,
15:20the four of them sat down on the couch to watch a playoff basketball game.
15:25It was starting to get late when Jan made a choice that will haunt her the rest of her life.
15:33The basketball game we were watching was going into overtime.
15:38And my boyfriend just lived a few blocks away.
15:41So I made the decision to go over there and finish watching the game.
15:45I wasn't going to go, but both her and Robin said, go ahead and go.
15:51They said, we're just going to bed.
15:59Jan assumed she'd be back before midnight.
16:02I actually thought I'd probably be home like within an hour, but that didn't happen.
16:09I fell asleep.
16:11It was just after 4 a.m. when Jan awakened and raced home.
16:21Every detail of Jan's story was carefully checked and verified.
16:25The confirmation left a five-hour window in which the crime had taken place.
16:32Detectives hoped that the medical examiner's report would narrow the timeline even further.
16:39What was determined to be the cause of death for both Robin and Lisa?
16:43After the autopsy was confirmed, it was asphyxiation.
16:48Did the medical examiner confirm that both victims had been sexually assaulted?
16:53Yes, they were both sexually assaulted.
16:56Biological evidence was recovered from both victims.
17:01There was also a single hair found on Lisa's hip that was collected.
17:09Testing revealed that the suspect was a white male with typo blood.
17:15But in the early days of DNA, that evidence did little to narrow the detective's list.
17:23They would have to take a hard look at every man who knew Jan, Lisa, or Robin,
17:30and determine if one of them was secretly a cold-blooded killer.
17:35Police were working around the clock to solve one of the city's most horrific double murders.
17:58And they had to view everyone as a suspect, even those closest to the victims.
18:03Based on everything you saw at the scene, was it your belief that it was likely that the killer knew someone in the Cornell family or in Lisa Story's family?
18:15At that point, we didn't know. We looked at all those avenues. Everything was on the table.
18:19Was this someone that they knew?
18:20Was this someone that they knew?
18:26You usually look at family members first and friends.
18:29How did you go about eliminating anyone who might have been associated with the Cornell or Story family?
18:40We took hundreds of blood samples and hair samples. People voluntarily given them to us.
18:49But the painstaking process failed to reveal a suspect.
18:53The results were disappointing, and a relief at the same time.
19:04Until they DNA'd every man I knew in my life, I couldn't talk to anybody.
19:10They had to be cleared by DNA.
19:12Once friends and family were ruled out, detectives began the massive task of testing the Cornell's neighbors.
19:26The courtyard's north is a large complex. It's about 140 units.
19:31So there was a lot of foot traffic that would go through the sidewalks and the walkways through there.
19:36When police discussed their efforts with Jan, it triggered her memory.
19:44She suddenly remembered a disturbing encounter she had had with a stranger the day before the murders.
19:51My bedroom window faced a sidewalk through this courtyard.
19:58The cat was crying to get in.
19:59And I was standing there with a little shirt on and my underwear, and there was a guy walking through with a ball cap on, and he stopped.
20:11He was smirking and watching.
20:18Police now wondered if the man may have been stalking Jan and her family for longer than she knew.
20:25Did you think the Peeping Tom incident could have been connected to the murders?
20:31Yes. It was someone that we wanted to look into a little further.
20:35Investigators went to work trying to assemble a lineup of men for Jan to view.
20:41This apartment complex is massive in size.
20:44And back in 1990, the detectives were making contact with everyone that they could hear,
20:48specifically looking for someone that matched the description that Jan gave of the Peeping Tom.
20:53Police tried to narrow their focus by prioritizing men with a history of sex-related crimes.
21:06The plan quickly led to a suspect.
21:10Why did a man named Robert get your attention?
21:13We started interviewing the girlfriend at the time.
21:16She started giving us some clues.
21:17He had some tendencies of being, you know, Peeping Tom.
21:23Did she know him to be a violent person?
21:26She did.
21:27She told investigators some pretty intimate details that aligned with the injuries that both victims sustained.
21:35And there was more.
21:37She said that he did not return to her place that night as she had expected him to.
21:41In fact, Robert had disappeared from her life the day after the murders.
21:53Investigators began a search for him at his last Cape Coral address.
21:58Had he told his landlord that he was leaving?
22:01No.
22:02She was surprised that he left.
22:03Robert had left in a hurry, even though his rent was paid through the end of the month.
22:16Detectives asked to look inside the room where he had been staying.
22:20What was collected from his room?
22:21She voluntarily gave us the bedsheets, the pillow, casing.
22:25And that was packaged and sent off to see if that could be used to compare with our crime scene.
22:29While the lab started the testing, detectives went to work tracking down Robert.
22:37They had a lot of questions to ask him.
22:41Robert definitely was a suspect.
22:43Cape Coral detectives searching for the man responsible for the brutal double homicide of Robin Cornell and Lisa Story.
23:07Followed tips on their suspects' whereabouts all the way to Mississippi.
23:13And when their search finally led them to the front door of Robert's new girlfriend, police were ready for action.
23:21We had a search warrant for blood samples, hair samples, so we could compare the known evidence that we had.
23:27But that's when the plan hit a roadblock.
23:32Robert was out of town working on an oil rig.
23:36Investigators had no choice but to wait for his return.
23:45Did he eventually come back?
23:47Yeah.
23:47A car pulled up and a male got out of a vehicle.
23:50We asked, are you Robert?
23:51And originally he said no.
23:53And then he paused and he says, yes, I'm Robert.
23:55Investigators were confident his sketchy behavior meant they were on the right track and they took him in for questioning.
24:04What did he say when you asked him directly if he had anything to do with the murders?
24:14He said he did not have anything to do with the murders.
24:17And he did not know either victims or anyone who lived in Unit 100.
24:22Investigators remained skeptical and pressed him for information.
24:27What was Robert's alibi for the night of the murders?
24:30He said that he was out drinking at one of the local bars, had several drinks, and stayed at one of his friends' house.
24:40The alibi explained why Robert hadn't returned to his girlfriend's condo on the night of the murder.
24:48And he told detectives that his new love interest and a job opportunity on the oil rig
24:54were the only reasons he had ducked out of Cape Coral without a goodbye.
25:00But those easy answers ended suddenly once police brought up his troubling past.
25:08What happened when you started to ask him about his peeping Tom incidents?
25:14He shut down and ended the questioning.
25:17He did not want to speak to us anymore.
25:21Still, investigators didn't need his permission to obtain samples of his blood and hair.
25:27Detectives believed they were now a lab report away from an arrest.
25:34But the results were not what they had expected.
25:38How surprised were you when the lab results came back
25:41and there wasn't a match between the samples that Robert provided and the evidence of the crime scene?
25:48I was surprised. We had a lot that led to him.
25:51Instead, detectives were back at square one.
26:00And the pressure they felt to solve the case was growing.
26:04How much were these violent, brutal murders discussed?
26:10It was shocking that there had been a double homicide in Cape Coral.
26:16We never had anything like this.
26:18This was highly unusual for us.
26:20People were frightened because the person wasn't caught.
26:31For Jan Cornell, the emotions in the months after the attack were totally different.
26:38I was mad every day I woke up because if I wasn't there that night, why am I here?
26:44Why, why am I here?
26:46All I want to do is die because of what happened that night.
26:51But somehow, she was able to put those paralyzing feelings aside and find a way forward.
26:58What kind of legacy would that leave for Robin's sister that she loved so much?
27:04So I made up my mind that I was going to find this person, no matter what it took, because he was out there.
27:17Jan embarked on her own one-woman crusade to keep the double homicide in the public eye
27:24and make sure that every detective on the case knew she would never rest without justice.
27:31They all quickly gravitated to her cause.
27:35Jan Cornell, she's a very special lady.
27:37She is a very strong-willed individual, definitely a force of nature.
27:43She was going to move heaven and earth to make sure whoever did this got caught.
27:49And if you didn't like it, oh well, too bad.
27:54But despite Jan's relentless push, the investigation remained stuck at the same roadblock.
28:03We had to kill his DNA right at that crime scene in a location that if we ever tap the right guy on the shoulder,
28:11this case is done.
28:13He's never going to talk his way out of this.
28:15But the problem is we don't have any viable suspects.
28:19Eventually, it was the passage of time that sparked new hope.
28:24Advancements in DNA technology that led to the launch of the CODIS database.
28:31When the killer's DNA profile was entered into CODIS, were there any hits?
28:37There was no hits, nothing.
28:41Despite one setback after another, the years of hard work ultimately deepened the relationships
28:48investigators had with both victims' families.
28:53And those close ties led to the most difficult moment of Detective Charlie Garrett's career.
29:01Meeting with Lisa Story's mother while she was on her deathbed without the answers she so desperately wanted.
29:09Tell me about the last conversation you had with Lisa Story's mother.
29:14Wow.
29:14I felt that I should go out and talk with her about the case.
29:20I kind of dreaded it, to be honest with you, because I knew how emotional it was going to be.
29:25She was like, please don't forget my daughter.
29:28And I said, no matter how long it takes, no matter what we've got to do,
29:34you will never stop until we catch the person responsible for taking your daughter away from you.
29:40Jan Cornell made Lisa's dying mother the same promise.
29:45She said, you will never stop looking for who hurt them.
29:49And I said, I promise you, I won't.
29:52And I promised.
29:53We're going to find him.
29:55We're going to find him.
29:56For more than 25 years, law enforcement never gave up on solving the tragic double homicide
30:18of Robin Cornell and Lisa Story.
30:24Approximately how many leads did investigators chase over the years?
30:30Thousands.
30:31We never let this case go.
30:33It's always been actively worked.
30:41Although the decades without progress were painfully frustrating,
30:46the patience and persistence of investigator Christy Ellis eventually paid off.
30:51Take me back to September of 2016 when a call came in that you describe as the highlight of your career.
31:03My phone rang and it was somebody from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
31:07And they said, we got a hit on the Cornell Story case.
31:09You what?
31:13Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
31:15Back up.
31:16Let me pick my jaw off the floor.
31:22One of the reasons the veteran investigator was so shocked was that the DNA evidence from the crime scene
31:29had been in the CODIS system for years.
31:31That meant any hit had to have come from a new sample that was only recently uploaded.
31:40After digesting the amazing news, Detective Ellis asked her colleague for the name that had eluded her for so long.
31:50What was the name that you were given?
31:53Joseph Zeiler.
31:54Once again, Detective Ellis was stunned.
32:04Joseph Zeiler's name was nowhere in the massive case file.
32:09Police were also surprised to learn that Zeiler had a limited criminal history.
32:14In the early 80s, he had been arrested for Grand Theft Auto, for burglary.
32:19And then, right after our homicide, he was arrested for concealed weapons and resisting arrest.
32:30But for the next 26 years, Zeiler had never reappeared on law enforcement's radar.
32:38To think that he was in the community the entire time, the fact that he was still here with the family was just crazy.
32:47Then a bizarre encounter led to his DNA being placed in the system.
32:53How did Zeiler's DNA end up in CODIS?
32:56Joseph Zeiler was involved in an altercation with his adult son.
33:01Wound up shooting his son in the chest with a pellet gun that actually broke the skin.
33:08Joseph Zeiler was arrested for that aggravated battery.
33:11And when he was arrested, he was swabbed.
33:13Since Zeiler was already behind bars following his arrest for that incident, police didn't have to go far to question him face-to-face.
33:27What was your plan going into the interview?
33:30The plan was to try to talk to him, get background information.
33:33It would be lovely if he admitted to what had happened.
33:35But the interrogation got off to a rocky start when Zeiler claimed he was impaired by head injuries he sustained in a 1998 motorcycle accident.
33:49I have a hard time with my memories.
33:53I'm not too up on what happened before this accident.
33:59I mean, I can remember some stuff that I have to deal with on a daily basis that's hammered into my head.
34:07But investigators didn't buy his story.
34:10At the time of his arrest for shooting his son, Zeiler never mentioned any cognitive issues.
34:18He was sharp.
34:19That was in August of 2016.
34:22Fast forward to September of 2016.
34:24He didn't know anything.
34:29Police confronted Zeiler about the sudden change in his mental state.
34:34You gave them very clear recollection of a lot of things that you were saying you don't know now.
34:43Convenient, correct?
34:44Well, that was, um, at the time it was fresh in my head.
34:48Your plans?
34:49No, I'm not.
34:51Investigators then told Zeiler what they believed he already knew.
34:56He was the prime suspect in a double murder.
34:59And a comment he made while police collected his DNA made it obvious he had no trouble grasping what that meant for his future.
35:11Zeiler, on his own, said, what is the death penalty in Florida?
35:17Which is a pretty big question to ask at that point.
35:20And it seemed clear that Zeiler would have to face the answer head-on after his DNA came back as a match to the biological evidence collected from Robin Cornell.
35:37It was one in 700 billion.
35:39Those are just numbers that are not even on the earth.
35:43Zeiler's DNA was also a match to the hair collected from Lisa Story's body.
35:50Detective Ellis couldn't wait to tell Jan Cornell that her painful journey for answers was over.
35:59She drove to Jan's home to deliver the news in person.
36:03It was probably close to 9 p.m.
36:05She was like, what's up?
36:06I just stood there for a minute and looked at her and I said, we got him, Jan.
36:11All I could say was, oh my God, and cry.
36:15It was pretty, you know, extraordinary.
36:22It was just amazing, emotional, exciting, exhilarating.
36:27Investigators never found anything linking Zeiler to other unsolved crimes.
36:32Nor did they discover a motive for him to specifically target Jan, Robin, or Lisa.
36:39Still, state attorney Amira Fox was confident that the evidence police had collected was more than enough for her to pursue the death penalty.
36:50In this case, there were some of the strongest aggravating factors that exist under Florida law.
36:57The crime was heinous, atrocious, and cruel.
37:00When the trial finally began, it was challenging for Jan Cornell to control her emotions.
37:12I had to sit on my hands because they were shaking so bad.
37:17When he stared at me and I looked into his eyes, all I could think of was that was the last thing they saw.
37:25Was that evil man's eyes.
37:30But Jan was there, front and center, when the jury returned from its deliberations.
37:39What was your reaction when you heard the guilty verdict?
37:41I just kept hearing it over and over and over in my head, guilty.
37:50That is what I had prayed for, for almost 33 years.
37:55The person that did this was going to pay for what he did to them.
38:05The verdict was also a relief for all the members of law enforcement who had spent decades on the case.
38:13Three generations of detectives that worked this case, past chiefs, the current chiefs, the complete family and friends.
38:21We all stood together as one team.
38:23It was very meaningful for all of us.
38:29During the sentencing phase, Jan Cornell chose to ignore Joseph Ziler.
38:34I wanted to tell him what a piece of scum he was.
38:39I wanted to berate him in every way I could.
38:44But a psychological profiler said to me, he's a psychopath.
38:50He will love that.
38:52He will love knowing the pain and how broken you and your family were.
38:58In the end, 61-year-old Joseph Ziler got what he feared the most, a death sentence.
39:09Nothing can take the place of hearing the words today that justice for Robin and justice for Lisa has happened.
39:21Sometimes it is a long path to get justice, but the justice can and will be done with a great deal of hard work, great teamwork, and an immense amount of patience from all the partners involved in this case.
39:39Jan has also found comfort in knowing that she had kept her promise to Lisa Story's mother.
39:45She went out to visit Lisa's mom and dad.
39:50She put flowers on all the graves, and she puts these little windmill things that blow in the breeze.
39:57And she says, if they're turning, that means that they can hear you.
40:06It was a fitting end to a heartbreaking journey.
40:09After 33 years of torment, Jan Cornell can finally grieve her loss with peace of mind.
40:20What do you miss most about Robin?
40:23We used to lay in bed at night and tell each other stories.
40:30She'd tell me stories about things that happened to her, and then I'd tell her stories about things that happened to me when I was a kid.
40:38And she'd be like, oh, my God, really, Mom?
40:44I miss her voice.
40:46I miss her laugh.
40:48She had an amazing laugh.
40:50She was a lot of fun.
40:55State Attorney Foxx is confident that the cold case unit that solved this case will help bring justice to other families as well.
41:04I'm Paula Zahn.
41:06Please join us again next time when we're back on the case.
41:13On an all-new season of On the Case.
41:17We need a man who is right away.
41:18It's a murder scene.
41:19How shocking was it that she had been attacked while the rest of her family was sleeping?
41:27It's hard, Jan.
41:28You think you're safe in your own home.
41:31On her left leg was written, I was here.
41:34The killer meant to send a message.
41:39My world stopped.
41:40I would just cry.
41:43Where the victim's voice is never silenced.
41:47I was going to find this monster that killed her.
41:51He was out there.
41:52A ranch worker discovered the remains of a deceased female.
41:56She had been decapitated.
42:00Was there a fear that this killer might strike again?
42:04This was his hunting ground.
42:06He would not stop.
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