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Previously on Killer Story.
And I'm sitting there one day on the phone rings and I pick it up.
And this woman tells me that her niece is missing.
And I said, we don't do missing persons.
I'm thinking there is something going on here.
This just doesn't sound right.
We waited 24 hours, and then we went to the police.
We said she's missing.
Something happened.
They just didn't believe us.
An unidentified body has no name, no history,
no touch points with the world, with one exception.
The system that processes the dead.
It was September of 1987.
These boaters saw this body floating in the river and pulled her into Arizona's side of the water and then called the sheriff's.
This body was Sabrina, though at the moment it was unidentified and unclaimed, a cold body drifting into the hands of the state.
A local investigator explains.
It was a little young girl.
It appeared she had been in the water.
for a while. Water does awful things to people. She was placed in a secured body bag for
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Everybody known or unknown must be cataloged.
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lying down your chest. As the medical examiner sliced open Sabrina's body, he went about
assessing the cause of death. She was found in a river, but did she drown? When you drowned,
you inhale all the water
and then your lungs become like
pink and spongy and watery.
You know, you can squeeze them
but she didn't, you know,
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Her irises were
occluded.
Sabrina's eyes were cloudy.
So they couldn't even tell what eye color
she was. The blood flow
causes the vessels to pop
as a result of
the water and the blood in her eye.
The medical engagement
Preserve body parts that might someday allow a body like this one to be identified.
It was common to cut off the hands and send them to the lab and the doctor.
Just took a saw, cut off her hands right above her wrists.
To get readable prints from the hands, you just place the applicable finger,
dip it in ink, put it in that little square, and you start from one side of the finger,
and you just roll it to the other side and hope you get good whirls and ridges.
Then they would have sent those prints out everywhere.
They were sent to Las Vegas.
They were sent to California, all the surrounding areas to see if they had some young woman
who fit her descriptors, but they couldn't find a family member to claim
her. What would it take to connect Sabrina with those disembodied hands? And why would it be so
important to a journalist to make sure that happens? Journalists have backstories too. This is
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There's a reason, Lindel immediately felt connected to the mother and aunt
who called about their missing girl, Sabrina Kidd.
And a reason she thought she was the one to find
her. To find that reason, we need to start with Lindel's career.
Lyndall Marks had an extraordinary TV news predigree.
Straight out of university in Sydney, Australia.
Lindel had landed a job at Australian 60 Minutes,
the most prestigious News Weekly in Australia.
Five years later, she was recruited to the big show, CBS 60 Minutes,
one of the most prestigious TV news shows in the world.
it was a wonderful, welcoming, warm, sophisticated, civilized, center for the best journalism I've
ever experienced.
60 Minutes did important stories about the world's most important people.
Lindell reported from war zones, rubbed shoulders with world leaders.
There's so much respect for this show.
You literally had to pick up a phone and say, hi, I'm from CBS 60 Minutes and was like,
whoa, you had credibility.
As you're probably gathering,
Linda enjoyed being part of the esteemed club.
She admired its celebrated members.
She deeply respected its journalism.
But admiration, respect, something was missing.
Linda was in her 20s.
She had places she wanted to go and go quickly.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm ambitious.
I think ambition's great.
I think ambition equals passion and energy
and love for what you're doing.
I'm going to be ambitious till the day I die.
For Lyndall, ambition meant being in front of the camera.
At 60 minutes, she'd been a producer,
which she sometimes thought meant doing all the work
and giving the on-camera correspondence most of the credit.
I really would love the experience of being on camera.
She would have loved to have that experience at 60 minutes.
Oh, no.
I didn't think they would ever be.
even consider me.
And so when a recruiter called Lindel out of the blue, she was primed to listen, even though
he was from a very different kind of journalistic outlet.
Lights, camera, scandal. Look out Hollywood. A current affair is in town. It's a Hollywood
at that moment, a current affair was just four years old, but already a smash hit.
For World Affairs was a bit ho-hum for a current affair. It was the leader in the new
TV genre, The Tabloid. And that genre lived off celebrity scandal, crime, gossip, strange diseases,
psychics. In other words, our secret pleasures. At a current affair, news was also entertainment.
The wealthy weight loss man who may be leading a scandalous secret life, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. High.
Thou shall not lie, thou shall not steal, thou shall not kill, thy neighbor's daughter,
Linda did some obligatory hand-wringing.
There had to be some whispering in the hallowed 60-minute halls
along the lines of,
is she thinking of leaving the New York City ballet
for a three-ring circus?
That kind of thing.
There was a lot of angst.
Sure, there was, but the recruiter said he wanted Lindel on camera,
going out to 30 million viewers a week,
the same audience size, by the way, as 60 minutes.
He wanted to know, Lyndall, what would it take?
Oh, I just, you can double my salary.
He goes, okay.
I went, uh, what?
Okay, that was it.
So Linda was ready to take on a new challenge,
but was she ready for a current affair?
It's 1991, and Lindel has just pushed the up button on an elevator
in a Manhattan office building.
She's about to enter her new workplace.
No turning back now.
As the elevator opened,
it was suddenly this, you're hit with this noise, this chaos.
Lots of swearing, lots of doors slamming.
I'm like, wait, what?
And there are people screaming,
fuck you, well, fuck you too, and slamming the doors.
It was kind of a lot of anger and excitement
and all these emotions mixed up.
in one. Hey, Lindel, welcome to a current affair. It's a zoo. It's a crazy-ass zoo. And I thought,
have I made a huge mistake? Is this going to be not my people? Is this not going to be my world?
Lindel, with her splashy degree, was probably a bit more sophisticated than the average
current affair reporter.
But guess what?
Lindel soon realized she loved the zoo, professionally and temperamentally.
For one thing, she loved the action.
At a current affair, there was nothing but.
Linda would juggle five, six stories at a time.
A current affair put two dozen segments on the end.
air every week with just half a dozen reporters. And so the pace was relentless. Lindel said it was like
being on a treadmill, but she quickly went from complaining about the doors they were slamming and the
fuck you's they were screaming to the doors we were slamming and the fuck you's we were screaming.
Oh, I'm Australian. Of course I curse. I love to swear. The girl was shaken off the shackles.
of her pedigree.
The current affair was a madhouse of all of us vying for stories and everyone in that room,
everyone that worked on that show was ambitious.
We were cutthroat.
We wanted to get the story and get it first.
And if that meant yelling and screaming at each other and swearing and slamming doors,
okay.
You found you loved it?
I did.
I loved it.
I loved it.
Oh my God, of course I loved it.
The most respected journalism outlets are religious about ethics.
You can't pay for stories.
You can't mislead.
You can't threaten.
The zoo, though, was not particularly pious.
There was no garbarrows.
None.
That's the end mean and again, Lindell's news editor, part of his job,
was to negotiate the fees paid to sources.
The current affair, ethos, was simple.
get the story no matter what.
And so what did Lindel think when she wanted to investigate the disappearance of Sabrina
Kid and Dan told her to stand down?
You know, I'm going to do my own thing.
I am going to tell a story, whatever story I want it to tell.
I don't care what anyone says.
This is the story.
This is how it rolls.
Why is she so attached to this story?
Well, there is a reason.
Lindel has a secret in her past, something she never talks about but can't escape.
This secret gives her a special interest in finding out what happened to Sabrina.
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We started at uni.
I was doing a BA dip-ed and Lindel was doing communications and journalism.
This is Annie.
Back in Australia, she and Linda were at university together where they became fast friends.
Annie experimented with fashion.
Lindel was stories and performing.
She was so into drama club,
anything to do with drama.
Annie's the friend we all want.
She's game,
happy to engage with her friend's interests.
So for a while,
she tried acting class too.
And I've got to be honest,
I hated every minute.
I was so glad when it was over.
But for Lindel,
acting was a passion.
And there was another benefit.
Through acting,
she met a boy she liked.
He was older and able to, I think,
really entice me with being more mature
and more sophisticated than the guy's my age.
I loved his intellect.
I loved to be intellectually challenged.
And she liked his attitude.
He had a strong personality, stood up for himself.
I love someone who doesn't let me take control
in a relationship.
I went, oh, that's pretty cool.
We had a great start to the relationship.
He was strong.
He was very strong, very stocky and strong.
And I think that was his way of showing off.
Annie was not a fan.
To me, I found him quite shallow, a know-all.
You know, he knew everything.
But I think Lindel was in love with him.
I guess she saw in him.
Oh my God, he's a kindred spirit.
Annie, good friend that she was,
kept her criticism to herself.
It's a funny thing to say,
but she was more girly, I think, around him.
Linda was 19 at the time,
and relationships at that age are auditions.
This one failed.
Soon, Linda was dis-enamored.
Quite quickly, he started being unfaithful
and dating other girls, you know,
and then I just called it off
because things just weren't jelling.
That was it.
Curtains on that personal drama,
but drama on the stage,
Lindel's still enamored of that.
One weekend, she and other actors
are practicing a play
at their drama professor's place
in the Sydney suburbs.
So we all went to his place
and we had the play rehearsal, and the kids were asleep.
And then it was maybe 10 o'clock at night or something,
and everyone was leaving,
and I was on the front steps of this house.
I was the last to leave, and I'm about to go,
but we're just chatting.
And then we turn around, and there's this car with its headlights off
and its engine off, and it's just coming down,
creepy, so creepy, coming down the street.
The street had a gradient, so it's just rolling down the street.
And I looked, I went, what the hell?
That's my ex-boyfriend.
And it pulls over, and he comes up the stairs really fast,
and you could almost smell the alcohol.
And he goes for this professor, and he pins him against a wall,
and I screamed out, I said, stop, what are you doing?
And he turns around and he literally, full fist,
punches me in the face a couple of times, right on the bridge of my nose.
The ex-boyfriend disappears as suddenly as he arrived.
No, I didn't know what was going.
All I could, my face, I looked, and literally my nose was all over my face.
It was blood everywhere.
And my hand started shaking.
I'm like, what?
Your body's just going to, what's going on?
The professor, he grabs the kids, throws him into his car.
He takes me up to the hospital into emergency.
It happens so fast.
There was no conversation.
There was no, what are you doing?
There was no, oh, like, why?
Why did this guy feel the need just to just to attack?
Why?
Because he was drunk because he just, you know, he wanted to be with me
because he was angry that we'd split up.
But no, he had the need to just to smash my nose into my face.
I ended up in hospital and I had to have surgery.
They needed photos of when I was a little girl to show them what I actually looked like
because it was such a bad hit.
My bed was covered by a curtain because,
I didn't want anyone to see me.
They didn't have mirrors there because they didn't want me to see myself.
A friend of mine came to visit me and she just walked in and I remember the shock on her face.
A terrible, terrible shock to see what was left of her face.
You couldn't really see much because the severity affected everything.
All the upper, her eyes couldn't open properly.
Just bruising and abattering, hideous, absolutely awful.
I'm just like, oh hey, you know, you'll be okay.
I'm like, no, this is not okay.
This is not okay.
I felt an incredible sadness because I could feel that it was going to have an impact on her
for the rest of her life and not in a good way.
Annie left.
Lindo was alone.
And I remember this doctor, young doctor, who came in,
and I'll never forget his face, I'll never forget him.
He just literally, I was sitting on my own at night,
and I was in tears, I'm just like, what is going on?
And he came in, and he opened the curtain, he just sat on my bed,
he said, hey, can we talk?
And he took my hand, and he said,
you're going to go on, you're going to do great things.
You're going to be okay.
You're not.
not a victim. Don't let this shape who you are. And I think it's that experience that made me
realize that I can do two things. I can roll up into a fetal position and just give up,
no, and be depressed and just go, I'm obviously not worthy. And I decided not. And I just went,
I am going to give a voice to people whose lives can take a turn that they never had any say in that is not fair.
But the trauma of the attack wasn't over yet.
As I was in the hospital, my father called the police and filed a report.
And then it was incumbent on me to continue that, to say, right, yep, I want to take this guy into court.
I am going to file a case against him
and I just went, I can't, I cannot do this.
I just want it to go away.
I pushed it aside because I didn't want to be the victim then.
The assault did have a profound impact on Lindel's life.
She'd have difficulty trusting men.
Instead, Lindel invested in her career.
Head down and work, she said.
So Linda won't let the attack.
to find her, but it will shape her.
I'm in a position where I can do something because I'm a reporter.
I want to hold out my hand and grab that story and grab that situation and say,
I'm going to give a voice to this because you know what?
I didn't even give myself a voice until now.
Until this podcast, I think you can hear the emotion in Lindel's voice, the sadness, the anger.
Linda saw herself in Sabrina.
She sensed that something had happened to Sabrina,
that she'd been victimized by something or someone,
and certainly by a system that seemed indifferent to her fate.
With Sabrina, this young girl, something was not right.
I completely connected to what happened to me.
I was beaten up, beaten to a pulp with an unrecognizable
face.
Lindel had lent her own assail and skate free.
She wasn't going to let Sabrina's story go.
She was dead set when finding out what happened to Sabrina.
And in doing so, get her own revenge, if only by proxy.
All she had to do now was figure out how to get her editor, Dan, on board.
Dan was clear about Sabrina's story or non-story.
A teenager who went missing in Las Vegas four years earlier?
Hard no.
Dan had bosses too, and they expected him to assign stories that had a good chance of getting on TV.
So, okay, Lyndall, your heart's in the right place.
Kudos.
Now, get me a story I can put on the air.
Lindel understands.
I was feeling unsure about the story because,
there was no proof.
I had nothing.
I had feelings, but I had no proof.
I had no qualitative proof
that I could take to the police
or take to our lawyers
and take to Dan and say, here, here is the proof.
It was not a good feeling.
You feel like you're chasing ghosts,
and you don't want to chase ghosts.
Lindel, those are your ghosts.
Other people can't see them.
Even Dan doesn't know about Lindel's past.
Whatever was propelling her, ghosts or a sense of duty to the defenseless,
Lindel made a decision.
Screw it, I need to do this story.
I really feel something's wrong.
Something's wrong.
Something's happened to this kid.
I asked one of Lindel's colleagues from back then
if this story was a good career move.
if this wouldn't have worked for Lyndall,
her career at a current affair may have come to a dead end.
Dan had other ideas for where Lindel should invest her energies.
He had a lot of story slots to fill every week.
A couple of reporters on the staff that used to talk up a big story
and always be that one interview away from getting it.
Meaning he's never going to fucking get it, okay?
whereas Lindel had almost 100%.
If she went out on a story, she came back with a story.
Whatever the assignment.
The pastor told her she was possessed by demons.
Yeah, there were alien stories too.
I did a story on crop circles.
Some say it's magnetic fields.
And then, of course, there are those who are convinced.
It's the work of visitors from another planet.
Dan and Lyndall became quite a team.
Lindle knew how to get his story, and Dan knew exactly what worked on television.
My job was to get in there at 5.15 in the morning.
USA Today used to have, in every state, they had these little stories in the back, right?
I used to go through that with a magnifying glass.
And I find this little story, and it's that this guy had been arrested for having sex outside his house.
And then the final line was the guy saying,
I half expect a current affair to be knocking on my door and I'll tell him to go to hell.
And so I called up Lindel.
I said, get your ass over to this address as soon as you possibly can.
Knock on the door and say hi, I'm from Current Affair.
It was perfect for television.
Out of this professional partnership, something else was developing.
Dan and I just struck up a great relationship.
I hadn't had any relationship with anyone for many.
many years. Neither Dan nor Lindo was a big drinker or partier. At the afterwork watering hole,
they might sit off to the side talking shop, reviewing possible current affair stories.
In a crazy office like a current affair, Dan was someone I felt I could connect with. Dan was someone
who I could talk to. He would actually stop and talk to me and cared for.
For me, he was safe. He felt safe.
In the rom-com version, imagine a Meg Ryan vehicle here,
Lindel's an outsider, intrepid but isolated, cautious.
The camera catches her and Dan at the bar, off to the side, one staring at the other.
In another scene, they're screening a segment, crowding around the same monitor,
shoulder brushing against shoulder, agreeing on the camera work.
He admires her spunk.
She appreciates his grit, even when he scoffs at her best idea.
And then it dawns on her.
And unbeknownst to me at the time, he liked me.
When I realized that actually he liked me and I went, well, actually I like him too
and we had this beautiful friendship which evolved very, very quickly,
Dan doesn't do things half-heartedly.
He goes all in, very fast.
Our first date was the Macy's Day balloons, the parade.
Listen, if you're taking a girl on a first date, you can't do any better than that.
We've watched the balloons being blown up right by Museum Natural History.
They lay out Superman or Snoopy, and they blow them up there.
They ready them for the parade the next day.
It's kind of magic.
Those flattened cartoon characters are spread out on the street like,
Colorful rubbery puddles.
Then the helium goes in and they rise little by little,
emerging from the sidewalk like a new life form.
And I'm going, wow, this city's insane.
And these balloons are crazy.
When Lindel's not intense, she's bubbly, talking at fun.
I just, it was very nice.
And we just had a really, really good time.
We really did.
In the chaos of a new city and a punishing news cycle,
Lindel had found her people or her person.
I never thought any guy was interested in me.
I honestly just, I just honestly didn't think I was someone that guys wanted to be with.
I was the career girl.
And I was the career girl by choice.
And that choice was made back when I was attacked.
This is the path I was on.
So to have this gorgeous.
gorgeous, handsome New Yorker paying attention to me and wooing me and buying me little gifts
and making me dinner and introducing me to chicken wings that were too spicy for me.
And he'd introduced me to cute little restaurants and bars and we'd be walking through
Times Square and it was just the whole thing was living a dream.
I did get swept up in it.
Soon Dan and Linda were mostly living together.
He was her boyfriend and also her boss.
and as her boss, he still wouldn't okay her Sabrina project.
I had one thing going for me.
I could get his ear privately on the pillow.
And I use that.
She told Dan she just wanted to get more facts.
Yes, there was me trying to cajole him into letting me get to Las Vegas.
Dan still won't authorize a trip to Vegas, not on a current affairs tab.
but well, maybe there is a workaround.
Then there was the idea that maybe I needed to find another way.
If Lindell can find a story out of Las Vegas, one that Dan can actually put on TV, sure.
Then he can pay for the trip.
And if then Lindel took an extra day for some extracurricular research, he'd be none the wiser.
I scoured the Las Vegas press to try and find some sexy stories
because I knew that those sexy stories would drive the viewers.
And then there it was.
Jana Steele, the woman voted the prettiest showgirl on the fame Las Vegas strip,
had a secret, and she was prepared to go national with it.
Lyndall, what are you waiting for?
Get your ass to Vegas.
Cue the sound of a jet taking off.
Just about everybody in Las Vegas knows showgirls Jana Steele.
She packs them in with her nightclub act, and she found more fame when she won a local beauty title.
Lindel Marks went to the gambling capital of America for this exclusive report, Luck be a laddie tonight.
Lindel had talked Jana into telling America her secret.
I was born a male, a little boy.
Perfect for TV, yeah.
And a perfect cover for Lyndall,
who now turns to her real interest, Sabrina.
Lyndall calls Sabrina's two great girlfriends, Jennifer and Crystal.
She'd gotten their names from Sabrina's aunt and mother.
Lindel is eager to meet them.
Maybe they can provide a clue to Sabrina's whereabouts.
Jennifer takes Lyndall through the details of their meeting with the police four years earlier.
They'd gone to report a missing person, their friend, Sabrina.
We had to go downtown.
We'd wait.
We had to go in the office.
It was like a white room with like a little table.
And you sat down and they asked you questions.
They had their notes.
And they took the notes.
The officers wrote a report.
The girl signed the report.
And nothing came about that, yeah.
Linda figured she knew what happened.
These are young girls and these are kind of potty girls.
and they're very pretty girls,
and I don't think that they were,
that their stories were given any credibility.
From the cops' perspective,
here were two 17-year-olds
saying that a girl they'd met at a party
a few months earlier had gone missing.
Probably one more runaway in a city full of runaways,
don't you think?
Four years later, when Lyndall meets them,
Crystal and Jennifer are no longer teenagers.
They're 21 years old, and they are still concerned about their missing friend.
I was glad somebody was investigating it, and I remember being glad somebody believed us.
From Jennifer, Lindell gets a clue.
Jennifer mentions offhandedly what seems like a non-sequitur,
but the more Lindel thinks about it, the more provocative it appears.
It's something Sabrina told Jennifer in the week.
weeks before her disappearance.
She said something about a nurse went to see her.
Was she sick?
Not that Jennifer knew.
Why would a nurse go and see her?
She said, well, she said a nurse came and she didn't stay very long.
She just did a physical.
And then I'm thinking, I'm like, what?
Wait, what?
It was strange.
And it seemed stranger when just a few days after a nurse
administered a brief physical exam,
Sabrina disappeared.
Lindel had to learn more about that nurse.
Next time on Killer Story.
Bobby Sue actually spoke to them,
and they did say, yes, we think we might have something
with the name Sabrina Kid.
Then I looked at it, I went,
what the hell?
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Creator and host is me, Steve Fishman,
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Producers Jackie Pauley, Hannah Beale, and Austin Smith.
Production Coordinator Austin Smith.
Series consultant, Emil Klein, sound designer, Britt Spangler,
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