已逮捕嫌疑人：情人小路谋杀案

周五快乐，犯罪迷们。

Happy Friday, crime junkies.

我知道你们通常今天不会收到我的消息，但我必须确保你们听到了关于我们在2025年3月报道的恋人小径谋杀案的重大新闻。

I know you don't normally hear from me today, but I had to make sure that you heard the big news in the Lovers' Lane murder case that we covered in March 2025.

已经有人被捕了。

There has been an arrest.

如果你们对这个案件的细节有些模糊，我已经在更新中附上了整个节目。

Now if any of the details of this case are fuzzy to you, I've attached the whole episode to this update.

最后，我会再回来告诉你们逮捕了谁，我们对这个人的了解，以及调查人员仍需要你们协助的地方。

And at the end, I'm gonna pop back in to tell you who they've arrested, what we know about the guy, and what investigators are asking you to still help with.

如果你们对这个案件记忆犹新，请查看节目说明中的时间码，然后可以直接跳到更新部分。

Now if you remember the case well, check the show notes for a time code, and then you can jump right to the update.

1990年8月23日清晨，19岁的谢恩·亨利开车去接他年长的姐姐谢丽尔上班时，她做了大多数青少年在智能手机时代前都会做的事。

When 19 year old Shane Henry pulls up to give her older sister Cheryl a ride to work on the morning of 08/23/1990, she does what most teenagers do in the presell dark ages.

她按着喇叭，等着。

She lays on the horn and waits.

谢恩自己也得去上班，所以她不得不进去的时候，有点不高兴。

Shane's gotta get to work herself, so she's, like, a little peeved when she has to go inside.

当她发现切丽根本不在的时候，更不高兴了。

More peeved when she realizes that Cheryl isn't even there.

如果她打算搭车、不去或者不出现，给个提醒总该吧。

If she was gonna like catch a ride or not go or not be there, like a heads up would have been nice.

是的。

Mhmm.

但现在谢恩已经迟到了，于是她干脆就直接走了，没再多想。

But now Shane is running late, so she kinda just like scoots without giving it much more thought.

至少在当天上午大约10点接到一通电话之前都没多想。

At least not until she gets a call at work that morning at around 10AM.

那是切丽的朋友和同事打来的，想知道切丽在哪，因为她根本没来上班。

And it's a friend and a coworker of Cheryl's, and she wants to know where Cheryl is because she just hasn't shown.

这时谢恩心里一沉。

And that's when Shane's stomach drops.

不过，她也不太确定为什么。

Although, she's not quite sure why.

因为她知道彻尔昨晚和她的新男友安迪·阿特金森出去了。

Because she knows that Cheryl was out the night before with her new boyfriend, Andy Atkinson.

实际上，香恩也和他们一起出去了。

Like, Shane had actually been out with them too.

她大约十一点就离开了，好让那对情侣有独处的时间和空间。

She dipped around eleven to give the lovebirds some, like, time alone, some space.

所以在她看来，最可能的情况是她妹妹只是睡过头了之类的。

So in her mind, the most likely scenario is that her sister just overslept or something.

但即便如此，香恩还是挥之不去一种不安的感觉。

But still, Shane can't kick this uneasy feeling.

所以她真的请求提前下班。

So she actually asks for permission to leave work early.

但她被拒绝了，我觉得这太离谱了，如果你觉得你妹妹失踪了的话。

She's told no, though, which I feel like is pretty messed up, like, if you think your sister is missing.

没过多久，整个家族都知道了发生的事。

And before long, like, the whole family knows what's going on.

全家人都很担心，而香恩只想加入切丽尔的朋友和家人，一起出去找她。

The whole family is worried, and Shane just wants to join Cheryl's friends and family who are already out there looking for her.

她一下班就冲出门，赶往家里，她妈妈芭芭拉和继父丹正在那里焦急地等着她。

So girl is out the door the second her shift is up, racing to the family home where her mom, Barbara, and her stepdad, Dan, are waiting anxiously.

到这时，自从大家发现切丽尔失踪已经过去好几个小时了。

Now by now, hours have passed since everyone has realized that Cheryl was missing.

但安迪在哪？

But where's Andy?

问题就在这儿。

Well, so that's the thing.

也没人能找到安迪。

No one can find Andy either.

等香恩回到家时，她已经快崩溃了。

And by the time Shane gets home, she is ready to break glass.

听我说，伙计们，我们得报警。

Like, look, guys, we need to call the cops.

出事了，而芭芭拉根本不需要说服。

Something is wrong, and Barbara doesn't need convincing.

于是警方被叫来，并提交了失踪人员报告。

So the police are called and a missing person's report is filed.

然后雪恩立刻又冲出门去，和谢丽尔的朋友一起在城市里搜寻这对夫妇，以及安迪那辆白色的本田车——前一天晚上他们就是开的那辆车。

And then Shane is, like, right back out the door, ready to hit the city streets with Cheryl's friends searching for the couple and for Andy's white Honda, which they were in the night before.

但将近四个小时过去了，他们仍然毫无进展。

But nearly four hours later, they are no closer to finding them.

所以当雪恩走回家，看到妈妈正在打电话、一脸担忧时，她的心猛地一沉。

So Shane's heart skips a beat when she walks back in and sees her mom on the phone looking worried.

她只能听到对话的一方，但感觉情况不妙。

And she can only hear one side of the conversation, but it feels bad.

是的。

It's like, yes.

是的。

Yes.

那是我女儿。

That's my daughter.

你在哪儿？

Where are you?

我们马上过去。

We'll come right now.

经过仿佛一个世纪的等待，芭芭拉挂断电话，宣布刚才打电话的是一个保安。

After what feels like an eternity, Barbara hangs up and announces that it was a security guard on the phone.

据说这个人是一家本地食品配送公司的员工，他打电话是因为找到了切丽尔的钱包，里面还有她的电话号码。

And I guess this guy works for a local food distributor, and he called because he found Cheryl's purse with her number inside.

钱包就在一辆被遗弃的白色本田车的地板上。

And it was on the floorboard of an abandoned white Honda.

所以他们去的那个地方，是靠近思科办公室的一片非常荒凉的区域。

So this place that they go to, it's this really undeveloped area near the Cisco office.

Cisco是那个保安工作的大楼。

The Cisco is the building the security guard worked at.

它位于一条黑暗荒凉的街道上，这条街因为被称为‘恋人小径’而为人所知。

And it's on this dark, desolate street, which is known to people because it's known as Lovers' Lane.

它还沿着一片广阔的空地延伸，通向一大片树林，由于名字的暗示，这里深受当地年轻人的青睐。

And it also runs along this big open field leading into a big wooded area, and it's popular with young locals for obvious in the name reasons.

谢恩说，这对情侣去那里并不让她觉得特别奇怪。

And Shane says that it doesn't strike her as super weird that the couple would have gone there.

我的意思是，他们俩都和家人住在一起：22岁的谢丽尔和妈妈、继父以及一个像《布雷迪家族》那样的家庭住在一起，而21岁的安迪刚到休斯顿，和祖母住在一起。

I mean, they're both living with family, 22 year old Cheryl with her mom, her stepdad, and her little Brady Bunch like kind of family, and 21 year old Andy, who is new to Houston, he's living with his grandmother.

所以不到两周后，谢丽尔其实计划搬去和谢恩同住。

So in less than two weeks, Cheryl was actually planning on moving in with Shane.

他们打算一起生活。

Like, they were gonna move in together.

但在那之前，隐私是非常稀缺的。

But until then, privacy was a hot commodity.

所以，这对情侣去情人巷是合理的。

So heading out to Lovers' Lane checks out for the couple.

但保安在车附近任何地方都没找到切丽或安迪。

But what the guard hadn't found anywhere near the car was Cheryl or Andy.

所以这个保安就像是在翻查他偶然发现的一辆陌生汽车？

So the security guy is, like, what, rummaging through a random car he found?

这感觉有点奇怪。

Like, that feels weird to

我觉得也是。

me.

我也有同样的想法，但雪恩实际上给我们详细讲了那天的情况，她这么一解释，事情就合理多了。

I thought the same thing, but Shane actually gave us a rundown of the day, and it makes a little more sense the way that she explains it.

据说保安当天早些时候在巡逻时第一次发现了这辆车，但当时他并不在意，直到几个小时后车还在那里。

I guess the guard had found the car for the first time, like, way earlier in the day on his rounds, but he wasn't concerned Until it was still there.

几个小时后。

Hours later.

对。

Right.

所以那时他决定去查看一下。

And so that's when he decided to check it out.

车窗是放下的，座椅是后倾的，钥匙插在点火开关上，处于怠速位置。

And the windows were rolled down, the seats were reclined, and the key was in the ignition in the idle position.

这些都是很糟糕的迹象。

Those are all very bad signs.

对。

Right.

明显的警告信号，这就是他打电话报警的原因。

Red flags, which is why he called them.

当谢丽尔的家人和朋友陆续赶到时，现场就是这样的场景，他们急切地想找到这对失踪情侣的任何线索。

So that's the scene when Cheryl's family and friends start showing up, desperate to find some sign of the missing couple.

他们立刻注意到车旁地上有一些沾有口红印的烟头。

And right away, they zero in on some cigarette butts stained with lipstick on the ground near the car.

口红看起来很像是切丽尔的。

The lipstick looks a whole lot like it was Cheryl's.

当他们往车里窥视时，发现了一件保安没提到的东西，比烟头上的口红印更令人不安。

And when they peek inside the car, they see something that the security guard hadn't mentioned, something more ominous than lipstick stains on cigarette butts.

他们看到驾驶座车门内侧有深色的暗斑。

They see deep dark stains on the inside of the driver's door.

血迹？

Blood?

他们不敢确定，但看起来非常像血迹。

They're not sure, but it looks an awful lot like blood.

以至于他们慢慢往后退，小心翼翼地避开。

So much so that they do a kind of like back away slowly kind of thing.

毕竟，他们最不想做的就是破坏可能的证据。

Like, the last thing they wanna do is contaminate what could be evidence.

但保安是怎么没注意到这个的？

But how did the security guard miss that?

我的意思是，他不是在车里吗？

I mean, wasn't he in the car?

在这个区域，没有路灯，现在天已经黑了。

Well, the in this area, there are no street lights, and it's dark by now.

所以我猜，现在所有赶来的车辆的车灯可能让现场更容易看清了。

So my guess is that the headlights from all the cars that are now there from everyone who came maybe is making it easier to see.

他们可能还自带了手电筒之类的照明设备。

They also probably are, like, bringing lights in.

我不确定。

I don't know.

不管他们带了什么，光亮肯定比一辆单独的巡逻车提供的要多得多。

Whatever they have is definitely more light than, like, a lone patrol car would have provided.

安迪的车因为长时间怠速导致电瓶没电了，所以车顶灯 probably 没有亮。

And Andy's car battery is dead from the car being left in idle, so there probably were no overhead lights Right.

当时就是这样。

Like, at the time.

到了1990年，没有人有手机可以拨打911。

Now in 1990, no one has a cell to call 911.

等他们看到这一切时，保安已经走到那片大空地的另一头，正沿着树篱和切丽的一个朋友一起走着。

And by the time they see all of this, the security guard is, like, on the other side of that big field walking the tree line with one of Cheryl's friends.

他们只是在那里四处搜寻。

They're just, like, searching over there.

于是谢恩带着切丽最好的朋友冲向Cisco大楼，请求前台人员拨打911。

So Shane races to the Cisco Building with Cheryl's best friend where they ask the front desk person to call 911.

然后他们等啊等，等了三四十分钟，却没有人出现。

And then they wait and wait and wait for, like, thirty or forty minutes, but no one shows up.

什么？

What?

没有警察，没有急救人员，没有消防车，什么都没有。

No cops, no first responders, no fire trucks, nada.

所以女孩们不得不回去，再次拨打911，这一次，响应迅速而全面。

So the girls have to actually go back and have them call 911 a second time, and this time, the response is immediate and overwhelming.

响应是：哦，有两名孩子失踪，车上都是血。

A response like, oh, there are two missing kids in a bloody car.

就是这样。

Like that.

是的。

Yeah.

于是，大批警察和急救人员立即展开行动。

So this army of cops and first responders get to work.

他们用直升机在空中搜寻。

They search with helicopters up in the sky.

地面上还有追踪犬，各种手段都用上了。

They have scent tracking canines on the ground, like the works.

晚上11点过后不久，谢恩目睹了一幕场景。

And a little after 11PM, Shane watches a scene unfold.

她告诉我们，直到今天，那一幕仍清晰地在她脑海中重现。

And she told us that to this day, it, like, plays out in her mind.

现场一片混乱。

It is pure chaos.

周围有太多人来回奔忙。

There's just so many people bustling around.

她正恍惚地走向父亲时，眼角余光瞥见一名警官对母亲说了什么，接着她就听到一声撕心裂肺的尖叫。

She was, like, walking up to her dad in a daze when out of the corner of her eye, she sees an officer say something to her mom, and then she just hears this blood curdling scream.

对雪恩来说，那名警官仿佛在母亲尖叫时扶住了她，不让她倒下。

And to Shane, it looks like the officer, like, catches her mom from falling when she howls.

那一刻，简直无言以对。

And it's like, there are no words.

只有那种发自肺腑的、原始的哀嚎。

It's just these, like, guttural primal shrieks.

芭芭拉后来在接受KHOU十一台采访时说，扶住她的警官同时也拦着她，不让她冲向田野另一头突然骚动起来的区域。

And Barbara actually says later in reporting for KHOU eleven that the officer holding her up is also holding her back from running towards the area across the field where there's just this, like, sudden flurry of activity.

雪恩根本无法消化这一切。

And Shane can't even process it all.

她转过身去问爸爸出了什么事。

She turns to ask her dad what's wrong.

到底发生了什么？

Like, what happened?

为什么大家突然都这么难过？

Why is everyone so upset all of a sudden?

我不知道他是否已经得到了通报，还是只是自己把事情串联起来了，但他给出了谢恩完全没想到的最后两个字。

And I don't know if he's been briefed or if he's just, like, putting two and two together, but he responds with the last two words that Shane is prepared to hear.

她走了。

She's gone.

转眼间，调查人员包围了他们，催促他们走向汽车，说：‘很抱歉，但你们现在必须离开。’

And in the blink of an eye, investigators surround them, like, corralling them towards their cars saying, like, listen, we're so sorry, but, like, you have to leave now.

这里是个犯罪现场。

This is a crime scene.

整个家庭都在想：怎么可能？

And the entire family is thinking, like, how?

他们怎么能把切丽一个人留在那里？

How can they leave Cheryl out there?

但他们别无选择，只能离开，而调查人员必须开始工作。

But they don't have a choice, so they go, and investigators have to get to work.

吉尔·泰拉为《威尔明顿晨星报》报道，切丽的尸体是由一只追踪犬在安迪的车外约200码处发现的，就在田野尽头略微进入树林的地方。

Jill Tyra reported for Wilmington Morningstar that Cheryl's body had been found by a scent tracking dog about 200 yards from Andy's car, just barely into the wooded area past the field.

当她被发现时，她赤身裸体，脸朝下躺在地上，双手被绳子绑在背后。

When she's found, she's naked, lying face down on the ground, and her hands are actually bound behind her back with rope.

她的头部和颈部有看似不规则的伤口，喉咙也被割开。

And she has what looks like jagged wounds to her head and her neck, and her throat has been slashed.

而她的凶手似乎只是敷衍地试图用一些腐烂围栏的木板掩盖她的尸体。

And her killer, it seems, made a half hearted attempt to conceal her body under some pieces of, like, wood from this, like, rotting fence.

随后，他们在附近找到了她的衣服，还有一张20美元的钞票。

And then they find her clothes nearby, a single $20 bill as well.

她那件带有红色装饰的漂亮天蓝色夏装，实际上已被从她身上割下。

Her pretty turquoise summer dress with, like, red accents had actually been cut from her body.

谢恩认为她的内衣可能也不见了，她告诉我们，这暗示调查人员，切丽尔所遭遇的恐怖事件很可能涉及性侵。

And Shane thinks maybe her underwear had been too, she told us, which suggests to investigators that whatever horrors Cheryl had been met with probably involved a sexual assault.

在发现切丽尔的时候，安迪仍然没有任何踪迹。

Now at this time that they find Cheryl, there's still no sign of Andy.

尽管他们在现场做好保护并把切丽尔送往停尸房，寻找安迪的工作仍在继续。

Though as they secure the scene and get Cheryl to the morgue, searching for him does continue.

但到了凌晨时分，他们决定必须暂停搜索，等到日出后再继续。

But by the wee hours of the morning, they decide they need to break till sunrise.

这对安迪的父亲加兰来说，简直是彻底的折磨。

This is all absolute torture for Andy's dad, Garland.

他在切丽尔的尸体被发现前不久就赶到了现场，也曾沿着树林边缘步行搜寻，却几乎没得到任何解释就被催促离开了。

He got to the scene not long before Cheryl's body was found, and he, like, set out walking the tree line too only to be hustled away almost without explanation.

加兰实际上已于2024年10月去世，但我找到了他为琳达·谢尔登·费尔主持的《希望时刻》系列节目所做的一次采访。

Garland passed away actually recently in October 2024, but I found this interview he did with Linda Sheldon Fell for a series that she hosts called Moments of Hope.

当他与琳达交谈时，他哽咽了，因为他提到了一位HPD警官，这位警官主动要求留在现场，直到日出后搜寻重新开始。

And when he's talking to her, he gets choked up because he talks about this HPD officer who actually asked to stay at the scene until the search could pick back up at sunrise.

他解释说，天刚一亮，这名警官就开始沿着加兰德昨晚多次走过的树线行走，仔细观察，寻找任何在黑暗中可能被遗漏的线索。

And he explains that at the first hint of daylight, that officer starts walking the same tree line that Garland walked multiple times the night before, taking things in, looking for anything that might have been missed in the dark.

我的意思是，寻找安迪。

I mean, looking for Andy.

而就在那里，独自一人，正是这位警官发现了这幅可怕的场景。

And out there all alone, it's that officer who stumbles on this grisly scene.

因为安迪就坐在一棵巨大的树下，用绳子绑在树上。

Because there Andy is sitting at the base of this enormous tree tied to the tree with rope.

他的双腿向前伸展，面朝树林。

His legs like stretch out in front of him and he's facing the woods.

和谢丽尔一样，他的喉咙被割得极深，几乎被斩首。

And like Cheryl, his throat was slit so deeply though that he was nearly decapitated.

当我听到这些时，

When I hear all of that,

我立刻想到，就像莱克沃科事件一样，如果不是的话。

my mind instantly goes to, like Like, the Lake Waco, if not.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

我也是这么想的。

I thought the same thing.

听好了，对于还没听过我们关于湖威科集数的人，那是一个我们最近做的两部分系列。

And listen, for anyone who hasn't listened to our Lake Waco episodes, it was like a two parter that we did recently.

我会试着在笔记里附上链接之类的。

I'll try and link out to it in the notes or whatever.

但我同意。

But I agree.

这和这个案子有一些令人毛骨悚然的相似之处。

It's got some, like, eerie similarities to this case.

一听到安迪的事，我就立刻想到了那个。

Like, the second I heard about Andy, that's what I thought about.

但你得想想这一点。

But you gotta think about this.

当时没有人认为可能存在关联，因为到切丽尔和安迪被杀时，他们已经有人因湖瓦科案入狱了。

No one at the time is thinking there's a possibility of a connection because by the time Cheryl and Andy were murdered, they already had people in prison for the Lake Waco case.

想问问时间点的问题。

Gonna ask about the timing.

没错。

Right.

以我现在的认知来看，这对我来说毫无意义。

Now knowing what I know now, to me, that means nothing.

但那时候，没人会大喊是连环杀手。

But back then, no one is screaming serial killer.

但回到安迪身上，我们也许稍后再谈瓦科的事情。

But to go back to Andy, and we can touch on this the Waco stuff maybe later.

安迪是穿着完整衣服的。

Andy's fully clothed.

他的双手被绑在背后。

His hands are bound behind his back.

切丽的颈部伤痕是那种参差不齐、不精确的，而安迪的喉咙却只有一道干净利落的割痕。

And where the injuries to Cheryl's neck were kind of, like, jagged and imprecise, I guess Andy's throat had just, like, one clean slash.

他离切丽被发现的地方有多远？

And how far is he from where

切丽被发现的地方？

Cheryl was found?

我不太确定具体位置。

I don't know exactly.

我见过各种说法，从75码到150码不等。

I've seen, like, everything from, like, 75 yards to a 150 yards.

我也不确定。

I don't know for sure.

我知道的是，吉尔·泰尔的报告指出，安迪身上没有明显的自卫伤。

What I do know is that Jill Tire's report says there aren't any obvious defensive wounds on Andy.

实际上，关于切丽尔的报告也是这么说的。

It says the same about Cheryl, actually.

但我们确实审查了这两份尸检报告，我认为这对她来说并不准确。

But we actually reviewed both autopsy reports, and I don't think that's actually accurate for her.

这女孩是拼命反抗的。

Like, girl went down fighting.

关于犯罪现场，还有一件我还没提到的奇怪事情。

And there's this weird thing about the crime scene that I haven't mentioned.

我不确定调查人员是什么时候注意到的，是在安迪的尸体被发现之前还是之后。

I'm not sure when investigators notice it, like, before or after Andy's body is found, I mean.

但KHOU十一频道的报道说，安迪车里的高尔夫球杆和高尔夫球被摆成了一条线，指向切丽尔的尸体，这在我看来非常奇怪，明显是有人故意想让它们被发现。

But reporting for KHOU eleven says that a golf club and golf balls from Andy's car had been, like, laid out in the field in, like, this line that was pointing to Cheryl's body, which to me is just, like, extremely weird and clearly, like, someone wanted them to be found.

是的。

Yeah.

现在我觉得，如果我们从可能的事件顺序来梳理一下现场情况会很有帮助，因为剧透一下，未来几年很难找到明确的答案。

Now I think it's helpful at this point if we talk through the scene in terms of, like, likely series of events because spoiler alert answers are hard to come by in the coming years.

关于整个事件是如何发生的，相关的报道并不多。

And there's not a ton of reporting on how it all would have unfolded.

大致情况是这样的。

The broad strokes are this.

人们认为，当两人在车里时，遭遇了一次突然袭击，随后被带到了安迪被绑住的那棵树旁。

The thinking is that there's some kind of blitz attack when the two are in the car, and somehow they're then taken to the tree that Andy was tied to.

所以理论上，可能是

So theoretically, it could have

只有一名男子所为，但我赌是

just been one guy, but my money is

两个人。

on two.

这是调查人员未来几年都会争论的问题。

That's something that investigators are gonna debate for years.

两种可能性都有，我觉得。

It could be either, I think.

再说一遍，我认为很明显的是，这一切始于安迪在车里遭到袭击，因为车门上全是血。

Again, I think the thing that's clear is that it started with the attack on Andy in the car because of all the blood that's on the door.

他们要么得把他打得很重，以示警告。

Either they would have had to hurt him enough to, like, prove a point.

我不是在开玩笑。

Like, I'm not messing around.

跟我来。

Follow me.

配合一点。

Cooperate.

我有武器。

I have a weapon.

我会带你出去。

Like, I'm gonna walk you out.

嗯。

Mhmm.

或者安迪在车里遭遇的事情已经让他完全丧失行动能力，这对我来说意味着，要将他拖到树下并让谢丽尔配合，肯定需要多人参与。

Or maybe Andy was fully incapacitated by whatever happened to him in the car, which to me, that definitely means you would need multiple people to get him out to the tree and keep Cheryl cooperating.

对。

Right.

不管怎样，他们的手都被反绑在身后。

One way or another, their hands get tied behind their back.

记住，安迪身上没有防御性伤口。

Remember, Andy doesn't have defensive wounds.

所以，要么他因为再次受到威胁——要伤害谢丽尔或他自己——而选择配合，要么他已丧失意识，根本无法反抗。

So either he's cooperating because, again, there's a threat to hurt Cheryl or him, or he's incapacitated and can't even fight back.

然后谢丽尔要么试图逃跑，被他们追上，要么被他们带到了另一个地方。

And then Cheryl either makes a run for it and they catch up to her or they walk her to a different area.

但当他们把她带到那里后，就脱掉她的衣服，对她实施性侵，并在她被发现的地方将她杀害。

But when they get her over there, they cut off her clothes, assault her, and kill her there where she was found.

根据KHOU11的报道，调查人员告诉加兰，他们认为不知出于什么原因，她可能是先被杀害的。

According to reporting for KHOU eleven, investigators tell Garland that they do think, for some reason, that she was killed first.

我不知道他们的理由。

I don't know their reasoning.

这从未被完全解释过，但这就是他们的理论。

That's never fully explained, but that's the theory.

尸检中有没有获取到生物样本？

Did they get any biologics from the autopsies?

比如，有没有能提取DNA的东西？

Like, anything that they can get DNA from?

有，都有。

Yes and yes.

尽管1990年DNA技术还非常早期，对吧。

Even though 1990 is super early for DNA science Right.

负责这个案件时间最长的侦探，一位名叫比利·贝尔克的侦探，深知DNA技术未来会是多么强大的工具。

The detective who works this case the longest, this guy named detective Billy Belk, he knows what a powerful tool DNA is shaping up to be.

所以从一开始，他就要求上级将证据送到一家具备DNA检测技术的特殊实验室进行处理。

So from, like, day one, he asked the higher ups to have evidence processed at this special lab that has the tech to detect DNA.

这肯定是极小的希望，而且非常

Which has to be a long shot and super

昂贵。

expensive.

对。

Right.

你说得没错。

You're not wrong.

但你懂那句老话：你如果不尝试，就百分之百没有机会。

But you know the saying, you miss a 100% of the shots you don't take.

所以贝克侦探决定试一试，结果成功了。

So detective Belk decides to shoot his, and it works.

他得到了批准。

He gets the okay.

实验室有了重大突破。

The lab hits pay dirt.

他们能根据谢丽尔体内的精液构建嫌疑人画像，但早期DNA技术的缺点是没有数据库。

They're able to build a suspect profile from the semen in Cheryl, but downside of early days DNA, no database.

没有任何东西可以用来比对。

There's nothing to compare it to.

对。

Right.

再多的证据也无法替代实地走访调查的艰苦工作。

No amount of evidence is gonna replace the grueling work of boots on the ground investigating.

于是侦探们开始采访家人和朋友，并以此为中心逐步向外扩展调查。

So detectives start interviewing family and friends, and they start working their way out from there.

两家人都不知道谁会想要伤害谢丽尔或安迪。

Now neither family knows of anyone who would wanna hurt Cheryl or Andy.

他们都是非常好的孩子。

They're both really good kids.

他们没有卷入任何可疑的事情，所有人都喜欢他们。

They weren't wrapped up in anything shady, and everyone loved them.

但切丽的亲人们提供了一些让侦探们感兴趣的名字。

But Cheryl's loved ones do offer up a couple of names that pique detectives' interest.

我们称他们为兰斯和亚伦。

Let's call them Lance and Aaron.

兰斯是切丽最近有点疏远的一位朋友的男朋友。

So Lance is the boyfriend of a friend that Cheryl had been kinda on the outs with recently.

这家伙，据说在切丽被发现的第二天早上就逃走了。

Dude, like, I guess, skipped town the morning after Cheryl was found.

他不只是离开了小镇，而是离开了整个国家，直接去了圣卢西亚。

More than the town, he skipped the whole country, like, took off for Saint Lucia.

而且这显然不是一次计划好的度假。

And it seems like this was no planned holiday either.

兰斯的女友告诉他，她根本不知道这次旅行。

Lance's girlfriend tells him that she didn't even know anything about this trip.

他甚至都没提过自己要去圣卢西亚。

Like, he didn't even mention that he was gonna go to Saint Lucia.

什么？

What?

是的。

Yeah.

所以当侦探们在岛上联系上他时，他同意返回休斯顿。

So when detectives end up reaching him on the island, he agrees to come back to Houston.

他坐下接受询问，当他们要求提供DNA样本时，他也欣然同意。

He sits down for an interview, and when they ask him for a DNA sample, he's cool with that too.

比对结果出来后，排除了兰斯的可能性。

When the comparison gets run, Lance is ruled out.

他不是他们要找的人。

He's not their guy.

这就引出了艾伦，讽刺的是，他是警察或前警察的儿子。

Which leads me to Aaron, who ironically enough is the kid of a cop or maybe a former cop.

不太确定。

Not totally sure.

他是切丽尔从中学到高中时期的前男友，他不像兰斯那样合作。

He is Cheryl's ex from like middle school and high school, and he doesn't share Lance's cooperative spirit.

我不确定他是否正式聘请了律师，或者是否与调查人员交谈过之类的事情。

I'm not sure if he officially lawyers up or if he talks to investigators or any of that.

我只知道，当他们要求他提供DNA样本时，他拒绝了。

All I know is that when they ask him for a DNA sample, he refuses.

没有给出任何理由。

Doesn't give a reason.

就是不行。

Just no.

谢恩告诉我们，那位当警察的父亲对他们的要求感到非常被冒犯，就是这样。

Shane told us that the cop dad is straight up offended that they even would ask, so there's that.

她还告诉我们一个奇怪的故事，说亚伦在切丽尔去世后的第二天出现在他们家，就站在车道尽头，一动不动。

She also told us this weird story about Aaron showing up at their house, like, the day after Cheryl died and kind of just standing there, like, the end of their driveway.

一句话没说，也没有再靠近一步，只是

Like, didn't say a word, didn't come any closer, just

就站在那里。

stood there.

这太奇怪了，还有点吓人。

That's so weird and kind of creepy.

侦探们也这么认为。

Detectives think so too.

芭芭拉也是。

So does Barbara.

谢恩说她其实有点理解。

Shane said she actually kinda got it.

她告诉我们，她一直很喜欢埃琳。

She told us she always liked Erin.

他一直对她妹妹很友善。

He'd always been decent to her sister.

她说，我觉得他当时震惊了，就像我们其他人一样。

And she's like, I think he was in shock, like, kinda like the rest of us.

侦探与埃琳之间关于其DNA的僵持持续了多年。

The standoff between detectives and Erin over his DNA, this goes on for years.

一方面，这完全是他的权利。

And, like, on the one hand, totally his right.

但另一方面，你得明白，这看起来会很糟糕。

But on the other hand, like, you gotta know this is gonna look bad.

你到底在隐瞒什么？

And what are you hiding?

为什么不提供你的DNA呢？

Why not give your DNA?

对。

Right.

因为在这些年调查过程中，他们接触了大量男性朋友和熟人，而他是唯一一个拒绝提供样本的人，而且他们对其他人的检测都没有匹配结果。

Because of all the male friends and acquaintances that they approach during their investigation in these years, and there are a lot, he is the only one who won't give a sample, and they're not getting hits on anyone else that they're testing.

因此，多年来，所有人都在暗中怀疑这个人。

And so for years, everyone is side eyeing this guy.

但你不可能永远躲下去。

But you can't hide forever.

虽然在我们讲过的很多案例中，实际上你确实可以躲过去，但这真的让人非常沮丧。

Though in a lot of cases we've covered, actually, you can, but it like, it's very frustrating.

但这里不行。

But not here.

在这个案子上不行。

Not with this case.

多年后，侦探们终于获得了对亚伦DNA的搜查令。

Detectives again, years later, finally get a warrant for Aaron's DNA.

人们满怀希望，认为他们即将彻底解决这个困扰这座城市多年的案件。

Hopes are high that they're about to solve this case that has haunted the city once and for all.

当结果出来时，每个人可能都屏住了呼吸，但埃琳的DNA并不匹配。

When the results come back, everyone is probably holding their breath, but Erin is not a match.

好吧。

Okay.

但如果凶手不止一个的话

But if there was more than one killer

这个假设可不小，对吧？

That's a big if, isn't it?

而且显而易见的是，同样的逻辑也适用于所有通过DNA比对已被排除的男性。

And to state the obvious, that same logic applies then to all the men who have been ruled out, like, so far through DNA comparison.

对。

Right.

除非你有铁证如山的不在场证明之类的，我相信其中一些人确实有，但我对具体情况一无所知。

Like, unless you've got an airtight alibi or something, which I'm I'm sure some of them do, but I don't have insight into any of that.

谁是通过不在场证明被排除的？

Who was ruled out through alibi?

谁在DNA被排除时有不在场证明？

Who had an alibi when their DNA was ruled out?

我不知道。

I don't know.

我只知道在九十年代的某个时候，嫌疑人的资料被录入了CODIS系统，但CODIS里没有任何匹配结果。

All I know is at some point in the nineties, the suspect profile does get entered into CODIS when CODIS becomes a thing, but there are no hits in CODIS.

此后，这个案件的调查活动就一直时断时续。

And that activity on the case, it kinda just, like, ebbs and flows then throughout the years.

比如九十年代中期悬赏公布时，调查稍微活跃了一点，但最终什么进展都没有。

Like, it picks up a little bit in the mid nineties when a reward is announced, but, like, nothing happens.

简直是一个死胡同接着一个死胡同。

It's just, like, dead end after dead end.

在这整个过程中，始终没有真正靠谱的嫌疑人。

And in all this time, there are no, like, really viable suspects.

没有。

No.

这正是这个案件如此棘手的原因。

Like, that's what makes this case so challenging.

它真的感觉完全随机。

It truly felt completely random.

是的

Yeah.

这个杀手突然来到镇上，犯下了这些警员职业生涯中见过最残忍的罪行，然后在日出前就消失了，再也没回来过。

Like, this killer blew into town, committed one of the most heinous crimes these officers would see in their careers, and then was gone before the sun came up, never to return again.

或者至少在很多年里，情况看起来都是这样。

Or at least that's how it seemed for many years.

但有一天，在2001年初，侦探们收到了一封非常奇怪的信。

But one day, in early two thousand one, detectives get this very strange letter in the mail.

信上写着收件人是休斯顿警察局，但回信地址写的是谢丽尔·亨利和安迪·阿特金森。

It's addressed to HPD, but the return address says Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson.

没有具体地址，但我还是想让你念一下这封信，因为这简直太离谱了。

No address, but I'm gonna have you read it for us because, I mean, this is wild.

信上说：休斯顿警察局。

The letter says, HPD.

如果你们想知道是谁杀了亨利和阿特金森，代价是十万美元。

If you want to know who killed c Henry and a Atkinson, it will cost $100,000.

回复至《休斯敦纪事报》个人专栏，穆恩，31201号信箱。

Reply, Hugh Chronicle personal column, Munn three twelve o one only.

将聘请一名律师来确保你们遵守规则。

A lawyer will be hired to make sure you play straight.

匿名。

Anon.

《休斯敦纪事报》和《休斯敦纪事报》。

And Hugh Chronicle and Houston Chronicle.

《休斯敦纪事报》就是《休斯敦纪事报》，而穆恩指的是星期一。

Is, like, the Houston Chronicle, and Mon is Monday.

我觉得是这样。

I think so.

至于匿名，我认为就是表示匿名的意思。

And Anon, I think, is just supposed be anonymous.

但是

But

这很奇怪。

it's weird.

对吧？

Right?

请告诉我，他们确实配合了这一点。

Please tell me they play along with this, though.

是的。

They do.

他们完全照做。

They do exactly as they're told.

他们会在《休斯敦纪事报》上刊登回复，基本上就是说：我们听到了。

They publish their reply in the Houston Chronicle, basically, like, we hear you.

嗯。

Mhmm.

我们愿意配合。

We wanna play ball.

告诉我们接下来该做什么之类的事。

Tell us what to do next kinda thing.

是的。

Yeah.

他们把这一切都严格保密。

They keep all of this on the down low.

也就是说，当时公众对这封信一无所知。

Like, the public doesn't know a thing about this letter at the time.

所以，即使他们发表了回复，公众也根本不知道他们在找什么，或者该去找什么。

So, like, even when they publish their reply, the the public, like, doesn't even know what they're looking for or to look for it.

但当他们发表这封信时，却一片寂静。

But when they publish this, it's just radio silence.

他们再也没有收到那封信作者的任何回音。

They never hear from that letter writer again.

他们甚至尝试对信封进行检测，看看能不能找到DNA或指纹之类的线索。

They even try having the envelope process to, like, see if there's DNA or fingerprints, whatever.