The Binge Cases: U R NEXT - Doctor’s Orders | 2. Mystery Woman

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

The lab results start coming back on the Redding murder investigation and there’s a shocking result — the DNA on Juilana’s doorknob, stove, shirt and neck all match the same person. And it’s a... woman?? Doctor’s Orders is produced by Western Sound for Sony Music Entertainment’s The Binge.  Binge all episodes of Doctor’s Orders, ad-free today by subscribing to The Binge.  Visit The Binge Crimes on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘subscribe’ or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access.  The Binge – feed your true crime obsession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Listen to all episodes of Doctor's orders ad-free right now by subscribing to The Binge. Visit The Binge channel on Apple Podcasts and hit subscribe at the top of the page, or visit getthebenge.com to get access to wherever you listen. The Binge. Feed your true crime obsession. So Julian and I are four days apart. My birth is October 21st. She's October 25th. This is Jessica,
Starting point is 00:00:40 Juliana Redding's childhood friend. She's telling us some important things that happened in October 2007 with Juliana's boss, or boyfriend, or both, the doctor, Munir Ueda. They'd met a few months earlier in July. And so for our 21st birthdays, we all kind of came up with, you know, everybody wants to do a big 21st.
Starting point is 00:01:03 So I did have had a party here in San Diego, and at my birthday, she had mentioned for hers she wanted to do Vegas. This is about six months before Juliana was murdered. And she said my boss, maybe she said as Mnir, is going to put together a birthday party for me in Vegas. And he's going to fly us out there and he's taking care of the hotel. And he's got, he's planned like a whole fun. weekend, surprise weekend for me.
Starting point is 00:01:37 And so, like, my friends. And so myself and Juliana and two other girls were going with Juliana for this Vegas trip. At this time, Munir is Juliana's boss. She's his highly paid assistant. He is an orthopedic surgeon and a businessman.
Starting point is 00:01:57 He's also into real estate. He's given Juliana a place to live, a mansion in Beverly Hills, and a car to drive, a white range And for her 21st birthday, he was offering a private plane from Santa Monica, California to Las Vegas. Her and her friends, a suite at the win, all expenses paid. So Juliana asked Jessica and two other besties to come along. Although several people did tell me that Juliana was romantically involved with Munir,
Starting point is 00:02:27 Jessica says it didn't seem romantic. Not then. Again, it wasn't until Vegas. It wasn't that it was, I thought they were having a relationship. It was that I thought he liked her. It wasn't anything sexual. It wasn't like what she saw and she gave him a kid. They didn't even make out, you know?
Starting point is 00:02:44 Like there was no, like I think like if there is a relationship, like a kiss, like something romantic, they weren't heavily, like, she wasn't sitting on his lap. This was the first time and the last time Jessica would meet Munir. So they all meet at the Santa Monica airport and very quickly Jessica starts to question. Is she seeing red flags here? For example, Jessica says that Munir had told Juliana that he was 28 years old. I just knew he was not 28 when I saw him. Or he was a really ugly 28.
Starting point is 00:03:18 And you can put that on the record. And that's when I started to be like, this guy's a little creepy. There's a photo from this trip on the private plane. There's Juliana and her friends in the foreground. They're smiling, out of focus, holding up their glasses for its years. Munir sits behind them, disengaged. He's looking away, talking into his cell phone with a very serious expression on his face. Juliana had found out that Menier was not the age he had claimed.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Just before this birthday trip, like in the hours before this birthday trip, Juliana got a call. Someone had been digging on her behalf. And Munir, she learned, was not who he said he was. that he had a wife and that earrings had given her actually fake. So she was really upset. But it was still her 21st birthday at midnight, and she wanted to still go to Vegas.
Starting point is 00:04:23 So me being the party pooper that I am sometimes, I said, let's not go with him to Vegas. let's do our own trip. But the time she didn't want to cancel her birthday, we had another friend meeting us already, who was in route, and so she wanted to still go on with the birthday. And I'm like, are you sure you want to do this?
Starting point is 00:04:48 And she's like, it's going to be fine. And we weren't, again, like, I've never met the guy. I'm not thinking twice. I'm just like, want to make sure she's happy. She's just mad, though. You can tell she was like she was hurt. But this wasn't just a trip to Vegas. It was a trip to Vegas.
Starting point is 00:05:02 So we got off the flight. He had a limo waiting for us. And we took the limo to, I think it was the Wynn Hotel. It was a nice hotel. He had like three. It was like this giant suite where there was like a huge living room. And then we had our own rooms. And again, if they were in a relationship,
Starting point is 00:05:19 I don't know why she wasn't staying in a room with him. Because she was staying with us. Because this place was huge. We changed. We had some cocktails. And we went downstairs to dinner. But Juliana couldn't just get over it. After dinner, when we went upstairs,
Starting point is 00:05:35 she started to argue with Mnir, and she was just really upset. And he was not yelling at her. Looking back, he was like, you're really calm in a weird way? Like, it wasn't like a normal response to a person who was that distraught. It was like a little too calm,
Starting point is 00:05:51 a little too put together. And so Juliana comes, and she's not a person. I really can't, right? This is probably one of the only times I've ever seen her cry like this ever. And again, because it's like her 21st birthday at midnight.
Starting point is 00:06:02 And I think, you know, you have all these big expectations. And so I think she was really excited for this trip. And I think she was excited to, you know, have fun. And so she comes in the room and she grabs her suitcase and she's just like, we're leaving. So she like storms out with her suitcase. And so as girls grab our suitcases and he's like, tell her all this is the guy, I want to make sure it's supposed to be your birthday. I'll do anything.
Starting point is 00:06:22 Like let her know. Like I'll fix it. Let me know how I can fix it. Like, we all grab our suitcases. And we're like, don't worry. We'll be right back. And we go, like, with our suitcases, we're running after Giuliana. And obviously, we never came back.
Starting point is 00:06:36 But that was not the end of things. I'm Benadere from Sony Music Entertainment and Western Sound. You're listening to Doctor's Orders. This is episode two. Mystery Woman. The detectives investigating Juliana's murder are also wondering, who is this guy? Munir Ueda.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Here's what we know. When he was from Lebanon in the Middle East, he went to school there. He graduated both undergrad and medical school from the American University of Beirut. I found one of his old resumes, and it says he finished undergrad in 1987. So you figure he was 22-ish around then? That would mean he was born in 1965. So if I get my math right, he would have been 40, 41, 42 on the day of that photo on the private jet. That's not 28.
Starting point is 00:07:41 In the early 90s, he came to the U.S. He did his medical residencies on the East Coast and also went to the Wharton School at U.Pen to get his MBA. So he's ambitious, and by the mid-2000s, he's established himself in California with a portfolio of very successful medical businesses. He's not just a doctor, but also an entrepreneur. Friends tell the police about this trip to Vegas,
Starting point is 00:08:11 and what happened next. After leaving Manir, Juliana and her friends ran around the strip with their suitcases and finally ended up at the Rio. Not their first choice. We went from Don Perriam and Caviards to the Rio buffet in less than 12 hours.
Starting point is 00:08:34 Juliana woke up early, got on a southwest flight back home. She wanted to get back because she wanted to move out. even that early in the morning, Manir had already had the car confiscated. And so she didn't have her car. And she was, like, locked out of her house. She only found her one dog, Gigi.
Starting point is 00:08:54 Her dog, Barron. We've never found. It's very shady. Over the next few months, Juliana would have to find a new place to live. She went back to her old job, working at the Venice restaurant. She went back to driving her own car.
Starting point is 00:09:10 She did talk to Munir. She did somehow get some of her clothes back. But she never found Barron, her other dog. The thing that's really screwed up is the dog situation, and that's what kind of all threw us off. Why is her dog gone? Supposedly that someone let him out. But he, like, never appeared in any shelters.
Starting point is 00:09:30 And this is, like, Beverly Hills. So it almost makes you wonder in hindsight, like, if he did something to the dog. You know, it's funny. It's, like, none of us. took things as seriously as we do now. Again, age, experience. So I think at the time, when I look back, there was no immediate danger. It was more, ew, like he's older. Ew. He's a liar. I'm like, ew, no. So it wasn't really talked about in like a, you need to get away from him. He's
Starting point is 00:10:00 this and that. It was more like he's like, he sucks because he like took your car. So she went and got the diamonds tested and they were actually real. So that started to kind of make the story that she had been told maybe seemed not true and the facts not be true. And I think like what he explained the marriage because they were divorced and so wasn't relevant, I think, or something. As I remember, it was like he explained his way out of stead accusations. Again, the diamonds then supposedly being real, really kind of made that.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Right, that was like concrete evidence. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So then she was like, okay, maybe I overreacted. I saw her again back to Vegas in January, because we're insane. I'm just kidding. Since the birthday trip to Vegas was a flop, Juliana and her friends decided they needed a redo. This time, without Mooneer.
Starting point is 00:11:04 So there was a fine joke. We're like, we're going to complete a trip to Vegas. It is going to be a good trip to Vegas. Because we cannot let Vegas not be fun. Actually, one of my favorite memory. It was so cute. It was like one of the last time I saw her. And so again, we're in all those big sweets. And she and I are sharing a room.
Starting point is 00:11:27 And we have her own queen-sized comfy beds. And we're in bed after going out. And she gets in bed with me and she snuggles up next to me. I'm like, what are you doing? You have your own bed over there. She's like, but Jessie, I love you. I want to be near you. I'm like, oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Scoot over a little bit then. And we were just like cracking up then. and telling stories. I just remember just dying laughing for hours and then passing out. It's funny. You take for granted those little moments in the moment because that was one of the last times.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Oh, it makes me sad. It's like the last times I saw her. It was just so cute and she's like, Jesse, I love you. It's just sad. I just feel like we take for granted so much sometimes. After Juliana was murdered, the police lab started coming back with results. And all that meticulous work
Starting point is 00:12:29 the detectives had done in the apartment paid off because it turned out there was a lot of DNA all over Juliana's apartment and a lot of it did not belong to her. One sequence of DNA stood out. Police found it on Juliana's front door. They found it on the stove knob used to turn on the gas. They found it on the front and back of Julianna's t-shirt and they found it on Julianna's neck. and all that DNA belonged to one person. They ran the sequence through law enforcement databases and nothing. But they could tell one thing, and that thing shocked everyone. The DNA, assumed to be the killers, belonged to a woman.
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Starting point is 00:14:04 I was the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts reporter. When Juliana was murdered, Jack Leonard heard the news from his colleagues, but didn't give it much thought. So Juliana Redding, nobody had heard of Juliana Redding when she was killed. I mean, no one but her family and her friends. But the more he learned, the more interested he became. You had a young, aspiring. model, aspiring actress who comes to Santa Monica, to make her fortune, to become famous. It was just a classic go-west type of story.
Starting point is 00:14:43 And I think that was intriguing. He remembers the early days, the different theories around the crime. You know, you always suspect the boyfriend, husband, or partner, whether it's John Gilmore or Manir Ueda. So the twist made it even more intriguing. Most of the cases that I covered, it was pretty clear who did it. And it was a real who done it. They find this mysterious DNA on the clothing that Juliana Redding is wearing,
Starting point is 00:15:15 on her cell phone, which she has used to try and make a 911 call, or someone has tried to make a 911 call with it, on the stove knob, on the inside door, and there's no sign of a break-in, and on her throat, most importantly. And so for months, police are trying to work out who this DNA belongs to. Eventually, they start looking at other employees at the various places Juliana worked, including employees at the various companies owned by Munir Uweda. And they start checking friends, people who knew Giuliano Redding.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Not everyone gives their DNA willingly. So they got samples from wine glasses, cigarettes, straws, towels. In the end, they gather 42 DNA samples. I think they went through more than 40 women before they finally set upon one person. How long does it take? Almost two years. And that's when they find someone who looks intriguing. possible.
Starting point is 00:16:27 And that was Kelly Sue Park. It gets a little cloak and dagger. A Santa Monica detective named Karen Thompson starts tailing this 44-year-old Korean-American woman who held a sort of nebulous role in Yeweda's organization. They're following her around, and she drops a cigarette butt. Notes to would-be suspects and crimes, don't smoke. It's bad for you.
Starting point is 00:16:50 They pick it up, they analyze it, and it matches the DNA that was in Juliana Redding's apartment. It matches the DNA on the door, it matches the DNA on the cell phone, and it matches the DNA on Juliana Redding's neck. They firm up her as a suspect. Detectives dig into her work with Munir. Next, they get a search warrant
Starting point is 00:17:14 to obtain Kelly Supark's fingerprints. Homicide Detective Michael Bambrick tracks Kelly to a parking lot in Camerio, California. He recorded the interaction. Search warrant, we're investigating the murder that occurred in Santa Monica. What? In 2008. Well, who?
Starting point is 00:17:33 We're investigating the murder of Juliana Reddy. And during the investigation, your name came up. So my partner, Detective Thompson, had a search warrant, so I'm by the judge, to take your fingerpings. Okay, you're not under arrest. All right, I know it's a little starling. Oh my God. You're not under arrest. We're just here to take a fingerfince and send your own.
Starting point is 00:17:54 and send you on their way. I don't even know this person. Who's who is this person? Wait, wait, wait, wait, guys. I want to call my attorney or something. Okay, this is Jillian already. Oh, my God. Kelly refuses to give them her fingerprints.
Starting point is 00:18:08 She says she wants to call a lawyer. But Officer Bambrick says, You have two choices. Either submit to the search warrant. No, no. It's a court order signed by a judge, or I will arrest you, listen to me. Or I have to arrest you.
Starting point is 00:18:21 We're not complying with a court order. Okay? But Kelly does not comply. You're now in custody. You're now in custody. Okay. I'm just going to put your hands on you back and put your name. You're not under a left.
Starting point is 00:18:37 They're a violation of a court order. I explained to you. It's not funny. I would drive all the way out of here for a joke. This was June 2010, more than two years after Giuliana's murder. At the station, they fingerprint Kelly Park. They compare those prints to what they found in Juliana's apartment. There's one match.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Yeah, I remember I think her brother called me and told me that they arrested somebody. And it was a woman and was like, what? And I was like, what's her name? When Juliana's friends and family heard that a woman named Kelly Sue Park was arrested for Juliana's murder, they were, well, they were shocked. Who? Ooh. This is Juliana's childhood friend, Jessica.
Starting point is 00:19:27 And then he gave me her name, and I was like, who the hell? Who the hell is that? Yeah, like, I have no, I never heard of her. Um, I think initially the onset was, was this some, like, jealous girl who was jealous of her? I had never heard her name out of Juliana's mouth. Alana Hadid. Or anyone else's mouth before that day. I was shocked.
Starting point is 00:19:56 I was really shocked. This was not what anyone expected. As a society, you don't think of like woman-on-woman crime like that, initially. You think angry lover at first or a crazy homeless person or something like that. And it left them all questioning. Yes, Kelly Sue Park worked for Munir Uweda. But where was Munir Uweda? Kelly Su Park was charged with the murder of Juliana Redding.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Dr. Munir Uweda fled the country. Dr. Uweda mailed it. I don't know how, but he figured it out, and he fled back to Lebanon and evaded arrest. This is Lance Lamont. She's a journalist and runs the website adjustercom.net. Her regular beat is fraud in the insurance industry. But someone tipped her off to a certain doctor whose name had come up in a very different context.
Starting point is 00:21:01 I thought this is pretty wild. It's pretty wild for a treating doctor of workers' compensation cases to be a person of interest in a murder case and then flee the country. That's pretty suspicious. That sounds like mafia stuff. It sounds like crime. It surprised me and shocked me. So Larry Kennedy wrote this article. I edited it.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Basically, it was just matter of fact. This is what happened. His driver drove him to Mexico. He got on a flight from Mexico. He flew to Lebanon. That's where he is now. Lebanon does not have an extradition agreement with the United States. So effectively, anyone there is out of reach of the American criminal justice system.
Starting point is 00:22:00 Kelly Sue Park seemed to be on her own. Kelly Sue Park began appearing in court. But in court, prosecutors alleged that Kelly Sue Park was not on her own. During pretrial hearings, prosecutors say she was paid $250,000 by Munir Uweda just three weeks before Giuliano was killed. and Park's family received another payment, they say, of $113,400 in the days just before her arrest. And there was another detail that became public. The prosecution argued that Kelly Sue Park didn't know, Julianna Redding.
Starting point is 00:22:42 She showed up at her door because she wanted to talk her into, argue with her, to convince her father to be a pharmacist from Mnambor. you ate it. Juliana's father, Greg Redding, is a pharmacist in Arizona. An exhibits eventually filed in court showed that for several months before Giuliana's murder, Munir was courting him, trying to get him to move to California and work for him. According to media reports at the time, Munir was offering Greg a salary of $400,000 a year.
Starting point is 00:23:17 The court filings we obtained for this podcast include a series of letters around the potential employment of Greg Redding at a company called Golden State Pharmaceuticals, which, prosecutor said, was controlled by Munir. Golden State Farmer wanted to hire Greg as a lead pharmacist to oversee the mixing and manufacturing of medicine. Shortly before Juliana's death, Greg's lawyers got a letter from Golden State Pharma
Starting point is 00:23:43 saying the employment proposal had been withdrawn. Greg's lawyers responded with, well, our client wasn't planning on taking the job anyway because Golden State Pharma doesn't seem to be on quote-unquote solid legal footing. Five days later, Giuliano was dead. One theory presented during the trial was that... Juwaita and Kelly Sue Park wanted Greg Redding in the worst way. So when Greg Redding turned them down, they got angry.
Starting point is 00:24:17 And Kelly Sue Park went over to Juliana Redding's house, her bungalow in Santa Monica. in order to bully her into talking her father, into working for Dr. U.A. We tried to reach Greg Redding for this podcast, but never heard back. Lantz has a theory on what happened. This is my imagination speaking now. That's why Tilly C. Park went to the bungalow in order to talk her into it. And narcissistic rage took over. There's nothing more than certain narcissistic,
Starting point is 00:24:53 want than money. Money, money, money. In pretrial hearings, prosecutors said that Kelly worked for Munir as a kind of debt collector and enforcer, that she used intimidation to forward Munir's business interests.
Starting point is 00:25:09 And that's what she was doing when she went to Giuliana Santa Monica Bungalow. They say Munir called her his quote-unquote female James Bond. You see that in the press stories all over the place, female James Bond. The defense denied these claims. The judge said that she could not receive any bail from Dr. Ewaite.
Starting point is 00:25:30 Her bail had to come from a different source. It couldn't be from someone who was complicit in the case. The bail was $1 million to start, and then I believe it went up to $3 million. She got the money eventually through her mother. through relatives, through connections in Korea, they couldn't connect these people to Dr. Ewaita, but many were suspected of having some connection.
Starting point is 00:26:07 But it couldn't be proven. The judge couldn't come up with any solid evidence that they were connected to Ewaita. So after a few months in custody, Kelly Soup Park was out on bail of $3.5 million. It took almost three years from Kelly's arrest for trial to start in May 2013. By this point, the case was big news on local TV. The jury will likely be seated today in the case of a woman dubbed the female James Bond.
Starting point is 00:26:43 Tall and strikingly good-looking, her name is Kelly Sue Park. And she's on trial for the murder of 21-year-old Juliana Redding, an aspiring model and actress seen in this. Her family and friends and myself would always meet at the church right near the courthouse before the trial, and we would say a prayer for Juliana and for justice and then walk over to the trial. Juliana's friend, Alana Hadid, attended almost every day of the trial. We were always praying for her. She was very religious and loved God and loved church. And it was really important part of her life.
Starting point is 00:27:20 And so it was something we wanted to do while her story was being told. There were two really important decisions before the trial that the judge made. One really hurt the prosecution. This is former L.A. Times journalist Jack Leonard again. The prosecution's case was built on the idea that Kelly Sue Park was the muscle. She was the enforcer for Dr. Uaida. The judge said that there really wasn't any evidence. that Kelly Sue Park had been committing the kind of crime
Starting point is 00:27:58 that was inflicting the kind of violence that the prosecution was saying she had inflicted on Juliana Redding. So the judge said, no, you can't use that argument. I'm not going to allow you to argue that Kelly Sue Park was an enforcer for Dr. Uaida. That really hurt the prosecution, because the prosecution's whole case revolved around this shadow
Starting point is 00:28:24 that wasn't in the court, Dr. Ueda. And without being able to really say why Kelly Sue Park would have been operating for Dr. Ueda, there was a big hole in their case. The other decision the judge made was against the defense. The defense wanted to argue that the boyfriend may well have committed the murder, but the judge wouldn't allow that. Sitting through the trial, Alana said she could feel
Starting point is 00:28:53 Munir's presence looming over everything. The fact that he was hardly spoken about at trial was really hard for everyone. The funny thing is they continued on with their case. I mean, I don't know what else they were going to do because that was what they believed went down. They can say that she worked for you waiter, but why on earth would a businesswoman go in and murder an aspiring model who happened to date her boss a year earlier? It effectively short-circuited the mode of conversation.
Starting point is 00:29:27 But the prosecution did not seem flustered. Alan Jackson was one of the prosecutors on the case. He appeared more than confident when speaking to CBS News. I can tell you in 18 years of prosecuting cases, I've never had this much DNA. The DNA was on the door lock. DNA on a plate in the sink. DNA on that stove knob, which you'd expect because someone turned it on. DNA on the front and the back of Juliana's t-shirt.
Starting point is 00:29:55 And possibly most importantly, DNA on her throat. And don't forget the drop of blood. And guess where the blood was found? In a fingerprint. On a plate, in the sink. And the fingerprint was Kelly Sue Park's left thumb. We reached out to the two prosecutors on this case, Alan Jackson and Stacey Okun Weiss,
Starting point is 00:30:18 as well as to George Bueller, who led the defense. Alan Jackson never returned our many calls and messages. Stacey O'Kuhn-Wise and George Bueller declined to be interviewed. The defense, for its part, played it kind of low-key. They paid for an expensive jury consultant, and Giuliana's friends say carefully managed Kelly's appearance to that jury. The way in which Sally Sue Park was characterized, I think, was really hard because she wasn't made up.
Starting point is 00:30:53 out to be the person who she actually was, which was like an enforcer. And she sat in the court wearing sweater sets and acting like she was completely confused. When the DNA evidence came up, lead defense attorney George Beeler didn't dispute it. Instead, he spent his time casting doubt on the DA's arguments about motive, on Juliana's lifestyle, even on the phone records. They also cast doubt on Kelly Sue Park. According to Alana, Kelly presented in court as a kind of confused deer in the headlights. How could she possibly have the strength to strangle Juliana?
Starting point is 00:31:34 Despite having three inches and 40 pounds on her. After the prosecution rested, the defense called just a handful of witnesses, a few friends, and then oddly a woman whose testimony was that she'd seen Juliana at Mooneer's Beverly Hills home and that she'd seen Kelly Sue Park there too. potentially on the same day. Then, closing arguments. And that's when things got weird. The prosecution closed its case arguing the DNA, the fingerprint,
Starting point is 00:32:07 everything pointed to Kelly Sue Park. And the defense said, essentially, yeah, that's true. But... So George got up there and he said, there's a perfect explanation for why there could be DNA on all the most pivotal parts of the crime scene, and that is that the killer, whoever he is, had taken a rag from Juliana's house
Starting point is 00:32:34 and had tried to wipe down all the things that they had touched. Well, Juliana had lived with Dr. Ueda for a little while, a few months earlier. And George said that maybe when she left, she took a towel or a rag with her, and Kelly Sue Park worked for Dr. Ewaiten had been in his house, and she may well have touched that rag. And so some of her DNA might have transferred to that rag. And then when the killer used that rag from Juliana's house,
Starting point is 00:33:10 Kelly Sue Park's DNA could have been then transferred to the crime scene. And that's how you end up with it at all the most important areas of that crime scene. CBS News captured the closing argument. You have a killer who's got a rag. He's going around, he's wiping the places to get rid of his fingerprints, his DNA, and he's got Mrs. Park's DNA,
Starting point is 00:33:39 unbeknownst to him, but to his great benefit on that rag. It was an idea that had been barely talked about in trial, certainly not interrogated. It seemed, And here's Lonsamont. George Bueller made outrageous arguments that were such BS and so much malarkey and baloney that it just shocked me. He was bombastic.
Starting point is 00:34:07 I'm going to say he pushed the envelope with some of his arguments that were total bullshit arguments. There's no other way I can say it. A lot of BS. and he clearly captivated the jury. George Bueller is one of the superstar defense attorneys, criminal defense. It was a very surprising argument. I was not expecting it. I had not seen an argument like that ever made before.
Starting point is 00:34:42 Jury deliberations lasted a week. And on June 4, 2013, five years after Juliana's murder, the jury came back to the courtroom. There were two charges, both first degree and second degree murder. And when both of them were red, I was shocked out of my very skin. I was shocked. Not guilty. Not guilty.
Starting point is 00:35:11 It was mayhem. It really was. The courtroom erupted. Bitch. There's something wrong here. Go to hell. whore, these things were yelled by Juliana's friends in the courtroom right after the verdict was read. Go to hell, whore. I have that memorized. I'll be dead before I forget that.
Starting point is 00:35:37 And bitch was screamed and you murdered her. Someone yelled, murderer. It was really scary in that courtroom. George Bueller walked out of of the courtroom door like he was on a pogo stick. He'd really done it. He had gotten a not guilty verdict for his client. And I walked out right behind Patricia Redding and she looked at George Buehler
Starting point is 00:36:08 who was standing in front of the elevator. I believe he had pushed the button and he was waiting for the elevator doors to open. And right when the elevator doors opened, Patricia Redding yelled. him. How would you feel if your daughter was murdered? That's exactly what Patricia said.
Starting point is 00:36:30 How would you feel if your daughter was murdered? And George just got in the elevator and mosey dawn down. Alana and Jessica again. I think everyone was just in complete shock. We couldn't believe
Starting point is 00:36:50 that you could find Kelly Sue Park's DNA evidence, blood evidence on a broken plate in her sink. on the oven, on the door, I believe, on her neck, on Juliana's neck, that any 12 people with any logical sense could say that that DNA evidence could come from anywhere else. But that's what happened, and it was really hard to process. I was at my house and was actually on the news because it was such a shocking verdict.
Starting point is 00:37:27 It was on even in San Diego. They kept replaying it. It was like on the evening news and the afternoon news. Everybody just kept rewatching it. It's just like, this is crazy. Jack Leonard. I had never seen a case where there was DNA evidence against the suspect and that person was acquitted. I'd never seen a not guilty verdict for someone with DNA left at the crime scene. But this would not be the last.
Starting point is 00:37:56 last time Jack would hear of Kelly Sue Park. I was an editor years later. I was working with the reporter. We'd worked out that Kelly Sue Park was in jail. And we were like, why is she back in jail? Because cops still wanted to talk to Kelly Sue Park and Munir Uweda. Next time on doctor's orders. So I'm telling him, it really, really hurts.
Starting point is 00:38:27 And so he says, just be strong. Just be strong. Hang on. Just hang on. And then he keeps pulling and pulling. And I'm starting to scream. And I asked to see the doctor to see if what, you know, do I need to be checked out or anything. And they said, oh, you're fine. You're fine. And I said, okay. Just let just get me the hell out of here. And then I just started screaming, you idiots. What the hell did you do to me? You fucking idiots. Next up, episode three. Dirty and scummy. Don't want to wait for the next episode?
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Starting point is 00:39:25 to new stories on the first of every month. Check out the binge channel on Apple Podcasts or getthebinge.com to learn more. Doctor's Orders is produced by Western Sound for Sony Music Entertainment's The Binge. The executive producer and host is me, Ben Adair. The executive producer for The Binge is Jonathan Hirsch. Doctor's orders was written and produced by Neda Salem. It was edited by Ben Adair. Lila Hassan is our fact checker.
Starting point is 00:39:56 Legal review by Davis-Rite-Tremaine, LLP. Michael Rayfield is the mix engineer. Next up, episode three, dirty and scummy.

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