遇害：梅兰妮·霍威尔

每年都有数百万人走进荒野，只为寻找宁静、美景和冒险。

Every year, millions of people head into the wilderness searching for peace, beauty, and adventure.

但在这片片美景之下，却藏着暴力、求生和生命戛然而止的真相。

But hidden in those same scenic landscapes are stories of violence, survival, and lives cut short.

我是黛莉亚·达姆布拉，我的播客《公园掠食者》专门揭露地球上那些最美地方发生的真实罪案。

I'm Delia D'Ambra, and on my podcast, Park Predators, I uncover the true crimes that happened in the most amazing places on earth.

你可以在任何听播客的平台收听《公园掠食者》。

Listen to Park Predators wherever you get your podcasts.

嗨，犯罪迷们。

Hi, Crime Junkies.

我是你们的主持人，阿什莉·弗劳尔斯。

I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

我是布里特。

And I'm Brit.

布里特，我做了这么多年真罪案节目，也看了无数这类故事，但从来没听过开头像这样的。

And, Brit, in all my years of, you know, not just making true crime stories, but consuming them as well, I have never heard a story that starts like this.

我们的一名记者联系了一位洛杉矶警局的冷案专员，想问问上世纪七十年代一起未破的案子。

One of our reporters reached out to an LAPD cold case guy to ask him about an unsolved case from the seventies.

他一听就说：‘哦，那个案子啊？’

And he's like, oh, that case?

那个案子其实已经破了。

That case is actually solved.

但他就是不能告诉我们凶手是谁。

But he couldn't tell us who did it.

什么意思？他为啥不能说？

What what do you mean he couldn't he couldn't tell you?

反应一模一样。

Same reaction.

我们就追着他问：‘案子都破了，可你连凶手是谁都不知道？这怎么说？’

So we pressed him, like, how can it be solved if you don't know who committed the crime?

他说，当年负责破案的警探就是不肯告诉他凶手的名字，这简直让我搞不懂。

And he said, well, the detective who worked the case when it was solved wouldn't tell him the killer's name, which made no sense to me.

警察部门一旦破了陈年旧案，通常都会大张旗鼓地宣传。

Police departments normally want to shout it from the rooftops if they solve a cold case.

我的意思是，这种事一般都会公开记录的。

I mean, it's usually even a matter of public record.

对。

Mhmm.

但这里不一样。

But not here.

这里连内部记录都没有。

Here, it's not even an internal record.

所以我们决定去解开这位侦探不肯说的那道谜题。

So we set out to answer the one question that this detective couldn't.

如果你继续听下去，我很自豪地告诉你，到这期节目结尾，你将成为最早知道谁杀了梅兰妮·豪厄尔的人之一。

And if you stick with me, I am proud to tell you that at the end of this episode, you'll be one of the first to know who killed Melanie Howell.

在22岁的梅兰妮·豪厄尔被发现死在公寓里之前，发生过一些怪事。

Before 22 year old Melanie Howell was found stabbed to death inside her apartment, something weird had been going on.

她当时的男朋友——我叫他戴尔——告诉我们，梅兰妮在死前那几天一直特别害怕。

Her boyfriend at the time, who I'm gonna call Dale, told us that Melanie had been really scared in the days leading up to her death.

就在她遇害前两个晚上，戴尔说，梅兰妮半夜从她一个人住的公寓给他打电话，吓得要死，因为她看到有个男人在窗外偷看她。

Just two nights before she was killed, Dale says that she called him late at night from her apartment where she lived alone, and she was terrified because there was a man that she caught watching her through her window.

他让她立刻报警，等他从自己家赶过去——离得不远——还真看见有个男人从街对面的灌木丛里跑出来。

He told her to call the police, and when he rushed over from his place, which wasn't far, he actually saw a man coming out of the bushes across the street.

这哥们儿二话不说，立马追了上去，就是她男朋友。

And without a second thought, this dude just takes off after him, like her boyfriend.

顺便说一句，梅兰妮的医学院男友本来是个跑步健将，可他说那男人居然还跑得比他快。

Now Melanie's med school boyfriend was also a runner, by the way, but somehow he says that this man still outran him.

那天晚上太黑了，他根本没看清那人的长相，等警察赶到时，他也说不清那人长什么样。

And because it was so dark out, he never got a good look at this guy, and he couldn't really describe him to police when they arrived shortly after.

其实，梅兰妮早就打算搬出那套公寓了。

Now Melanie was already planning on moving out of that apartment.

她再住两天就搬走了，准备和几个一起上护理学校的朋友住在一起。

She only had two more days left there before she was set to move into a new place with some people that she was going to nursing school with.

所以她和戴尔决定，干脆在这之前就住他那儿算了。

So she and Dale decided that it would probably be best if she just stayed with him until then.

但在最后这两天，梅兰妮还得把东西打包完。

But in those last two days, Melanie still had to finish packing up for her move.

对。

Right.

所以1976年4月23日，星期五早上，她离开了戴尔家，回了自己的公寓。

So on Friday, 04/23/1976, she left Dale's place in the morning and went back to hers.

戴尔跟我们说，他们俩都没觉得她白天一个人待那儿有什么问题。

And Dale told us that neither of them were concerned about her being there during the day.

毕竟那公寓就在加州大学洛杉矶分校旁边，要是你不熟悉那片儿，那儿挺安静、挺安全的。

I mean, the apartment was right by the UCLA campus, which if you don't know that area, it's pretty nice, pretty safe.

那时候哪有什么摄像头或者数字记录能告诉我们她什么时候到家的。

So back then, there are no cameras or anything digital that could tell us when she got to the apartment.

不过后来有个邻居说，大概上午十点，她听见梅兰妮在门口跟一个男人说话。

But they do end up locating neighbor who says that around 10AM, she heard Melanie talking with a man at her front door.

当时他们的对话听上去很平静。

Now the conversation sounded calm.

她能听出来那个男人走了，但几分钟后，邻居又听到他回来了。

She could tell that the man left, but then minutes later, the neighbor heard this man come back.

就在这时，她听见了打斗声，接着是尖叫声和玻璃碎裂的声音。

And that is when she heard a struggle and then screams and glass breaking.

噪音越来越大，邻居就从门上的猫眼往外看，说她看到一个男人从梅兰妮的公寓出来，手里提着一个黑色公文包。

And when the noises got louder, the neighbor looked through like the little peephole, and she said that she saw a man leaving Melanie's apartment carrying a black attache case, like a briefcase.

于是她让丈夫去查看梅兰妮的情况。

Now she sent her husband to go check on Melanie.

前门被彻底踹开了，他进去后看到的景象惨不忍睹。

The front door had been fully kicked in, and what he found inside was gruesome.

公寓里到处都是血，梅兰妮穿着衣服躺在卧室里，手腕被绑着，奄奄一息，身上多处被刺伤，血流不止。

There was blood throughout the apartment, but Melanie was in her bedroom fully clothed, wrists bound, barely alive, bleeding badly from multiple stab wounds.

天哪。

Oh my god.

不过呢，就算这个男人——不管是丈夫还是谁——报了警，等警察赶到的时候，已经太晚了，梅兰妮已经死了。

Now even though this guy, this this husband, whoever, called police, by the time they got to the scene, it was too late, and Melanie had died.

这整个过程，听起来就几分钟内就结束了？

And this all happened within, like, minutes, it sounds like.

这小子在她公寓里根本没逗留多久。

Oh, this dude did not spend much time in her apartment.

他是打定主意进来就杀人，然后赶紧溜走？还是说，本来计划没这么狠，结果梅兰妮拼命反抗，打乱了他的节奏？

Now is that because his only goal was to come in and kill her and then get out as fast as possible, or did his real plan go awry because, like, she put up too much of a fight or something?

他虽然一度把她手腕绑住了，但我知道她左手有自卫伤，公寓里到处都是碎玻璃，估计是她想逃或者反抗时砸了窗户。

I mean, even though he's gotten her wrist bound at one point, I know she has defensive wounds to her left hand, and there was broken glass scattered in the apartment from a smashed window, likely from her trying to escape or fight back.

结果这人还是朝她捅了整整四十七刀。

Now the guy ended up still stabbing her 47 times.

天哪。

Oh my god.

虽然她没被性侵，但也许这本来就是他的目的，只是他太小看梅兰妮了。

So even though she hadn't been sexually assaulted, maybe that was the plan, and he just underestimated Melanie.

一旦玻璃碎了，她又大喊大叫，他可能就意识到有人要注意到这边了。

Like, once glass is breaking and she's screaming, he might know that they're drawing attention.

这可是大白天，所以他立马就跑了。

This is the middle of the day, and so he, like, takes off.

那个公文包到底是怎么回事？

And and what's the briefcase about?

是他自己带过来的，还是从她家里拿走的？

Is that something that he brought with him or or took from her place?

他们推测那是他的，因为梅兰妮家里没丢任何东西。

They assume it's his because there wasn't anything missing from Melanie's place.

而且他可能就是用那个包带了作案工具，因为现场根本没找到刀。

And that might have been what he brought the weapon that he used in because they never found a knife at the crime scene.

我觉得这个公文包可能有两个用途，第一，我觉得他本来打算带一堆东西过来。

So I think the briefcase potentially served two One, I think maybe, like I said, he had all this stuff that he planned to use.

那是个工具包。

It was a kit.

是的。

Yeah.

手铐、刀，反正就是些乱七八糟的东西。

Handcuffs, knife, like, what whatever.

第二，我觉得这可能让他看起来像个挨家挨户推销的。

Two, I think that it might have made him look like a door to door salesman.

这让我怀疑他是不是假装成推销员之类的，装出一副无害的样子。

Like, it makes me wonder if he pretended to be a salesman or something, someone harmless.

对。

Mhmm.

然后邻居听到了他们之间的互动，接着他就走了，估计是让梅兰妮放松了警惕。

And they have this interaction, right, that the neighbor hears, and then he leaves, like, baby probably putting Melanie's guard down Mhmm.

让她觉得一切正常，然后他再回来，趁她不备下手。

Making her think everything seems fine, and then he comes back and catches her off guard.

但如果是这样，我猜这人应该不是前几天梅兰妮看到的那个在附近盯着她的人，不然她不会开门。

But if that's the case, I would guess this isn't the same guy that Melanie saw watching her, like, a couple nights before, or she wouldn't have opened the door.

对吧？

Right?

我不确定，因为我感觉她根本没看清楚那人的长相。

I don't know that, though, because I don't think she actually got a good look at the guy.

我的意思是，那天晚上黑漆漆的，你记得吧。

I mean, remember, it was dark when that happened.

我们问她男朋友的时候，他说她从来没跟他说过那人的样子——要是她真看清了，不可能不提的。

And her boyfriend told us when we talked to him that she never described the guy to him, which I think she would have done if she could have.

所以说实话，我觉得这事儿要不是同一个人干的，那也太巧了。

So, honestly, to me, the idea that it's not the same guy feels like it would be a wild coincidence.

那要是这样，我就想不通了，他到底盯着她多久了？一直在暗处盯着她，等她回来。

Well, if that's the case, then it makes me wonder how long he had been watching her, like, stalking her out

没错。

Right.

因为她好几天都没在家，至少有一晚上没回来，他得等她回来才动手。

Waiting for her to come back because she hadn't been there for For like, a couple of days, like, least overnight.

这正是关键。

That's the thing.

如果真是同一个人，那他肯定早就埋伏好了。

Like, this dude, if it was the same guy, had to have been, like, lying in wait.

大白天其实不是下手的好时机，但他可能等了好几个小时，甚至好几天，就等她回来，觉得再不行动就没机会了。

Middle of the day is not the best time to attack, but he might have been waiting for, who knows, hours, days for her to come back, and he felt like it was now or never.

在我看来，这根本不像一个第一次干这种事的人。

And to me, that doesn't feel like a guy who's like, this is his first time doing something like this.

因为这家伙在她家待的时间太短，留下的物证很少，就只有一个血指印，就在前门内侧的门把手上，我猜是他离开时留下的。

Now because this guy spent such little time in her place, there wasn't much physical evidence that he left behind except a single bloody fingerprint on the inside doorknob of the front door that I assume he likely left when he was leaving.

那邻居有没有看清他的样子？

And did the neighbor get a good look at him at any point in time?

邻居能说的只有一点，就是她大概瞥了他一眼。

So the the only thing the neighbor could say was she kinda looked at him.

她说那人看起来二十多岁。

She said that he looked like he was in his twenties.

他要么是白人，要么是拉丁裔，大概六英尺高，黑头发。

He was either white or Latino, like six feet tall with dark hair.

他们提供的描述已经足够警方画出一张模拟画像，我们手头就有。

And, I mean, they get enough of a description that police do make a composite sketch, which we have.

但说实话，这画像太笼统了。

But, like, to me, it's pretty basic.

细节实在太少了。

Like, there aren't too many details.

就看起来是个黑发男的。

It just looks like a dark haired guy.

而且这长相跟梅兰妮认识的任何人都对不上，包括她那个红发男友戴尔。

And it doesn't seem to match anyone that Melanie knew, including her boyfriend Dale, who was a redhead.

说到戴尔，梅兰妮遇害那会儿，他正坐在加州大学洛杉矶分校的食堂里，周围全是证人。

And speaking of Dale, at the time Melanie was killed, he was at school sitting in the UCLA cafeteria with witnesses all around him.

他说，是同学打电话告诉他，警察正在找他，这才知道梅兰妮出事了。

He told us that he found out that she was dead when a classmate called and told him that police were looking for him.

他很配合，主动去配合调查，很快就排除了嫌疑。

And he had no problem going to speak with them, and he was easy to rule out.

除了他铁一般的不在场证明，他的指纹也跟梅兰妮血迹里的完全对不上。

I mean, beyond his airtight alibi, his prints didn't match the one that they had in Melanie's blood.

虽然他们问了他一大堆关于他自己和梅兰妮的事，包括她死前那几天的细节，却一句都不肯回他，这让他觉得他们其实还在怀疑他。

But even though they had asked him a lot of questions about himself and about Melanie, about the days leading up to her death, they weren't willing to answer any of his questions in return, which made him think that they still kinda suspected him.

他还跟我们说，有个朋友一直关注这个案子，结果有个侦探警告那朋友：别再问东问西了，不然连你都要被当成嫌疑人。

He even told us that a friend of his who, like, kept up with Melanie's case said that a detective warned that person to stop asking questions or he would become a suspect too.

说实话，所有人一开始都像嫌疑人，除非能用指纹之类的证据把他们排除掉。

And, honestly, it seems like everyone was a little suspect until they could rule them out, probably with that print.

但一个接一个，邻居、同学、朋友、前男友，甚至还得跨州去追查的人，全都不是那个神秘男子。

But one by one, neighbors, classmates, friends, exes, even people they had to go out of state to chase down, none of them are their mystery man.

尽管做了大量工作，案子还是卡住了，彻底凉了。

So despite tons of work, the case stalled and went cold.

说实话，当时根本没人对这个案子抱什么希望。

And, like, listen, there wasn't even much hope being held out for this one.

有一次，一名侦探告诉戴尔的朋友，这个案子根本破不了——这种话可不常听得到。

At one point, a detective told a friend of Dale's that the case wasn't solvable, which you don't hear that very often.

而这种创伤，一直缠着梅兰妮的男友。

And the trauma of that stuck with Melanie's boyfriend.

他说自己感觉整个世界都在身边崩塌，某种程度上，确实如此。

He said he felt like the world was exploding around him, and in some ways, it did.

他表面上装得挺坚强，但受的打击太大了，差点被医学院开除。

I mean, he tried to put on a brave face, but he was so traumatized he almost failed out of med school.

他的悲痛太深了，几十年后，即使当了多年创伤外科医生，他还是说，那种感觉前所未有。

And his grief was so intense that decades later, he still describes the feeling as like nothing he had ever experienced, even after a long career as a trauma surgeon.

这些年来，他反复琢磨的一个问题是：

And one thought that he kept grappling with all those years was this.

这真的只是一起随机袭击吗？

Was this just a random attack?

如果是，那会不会还有别的受害者？

And if so, could there be other victims?

但他根本没想到，答案居然是：是的，而且是双重的。

Well, little did he know, the answer to that was yes and yes.

好了，各位犯罪爱好者们。

Okay, Crime Junkies.

我超爱这种反转，尤其是当一个人突然露出真面目，根本不是你想象的那样。

You know I absolutely love a twist and a turn, especially especially when it comes to people who turn out to be someone they're not.

所以我才这么着迷这个播客《变色龙》。

That's why I have been obsessed with the podcast Chameleon.

每周四，主持人乔什·迪恩都会深挖一个离谱到让你直呼‘他们怎么就成功了？’的骗局。

Every Thursday, host Josh Dean deep dives into a scam so bizarre, it will leave you wondering, how did they get away with that?

这真是我目前最爱的播客之一，我都听好几年了。

It is truly one of my favorite podcasts right now, and I've been listening for years.

我相信你也会爱上它。

I think you'll love it too.

去你平时听播客的地方，搜‘Chameleon’就能听到。

Listen to Chameleon wherever you get your podcasts.

2014年，距离梅兰妮遇害将近四十年后，新的指纹技术彻底改变了局面。

In 2014, almost forty years after Melanie's murder, new fingerprint technology changed everything.

当时负责这起悬案的警探马丁·莫哈罗，重新翻查了2010年之前所有做过指纹比对的案件。

Martin Mojaro, the cold case detective working Melanie's murder at that time, looked back through cases where fingerprints had been run before 2010.

那时候洛杉矶警局的实验室还没这么先进。

Before that was when LAPD's labs weren't as sophisticated.

他发现了门把手上那个带血的指纹——这种样本恰恰适合重新检测，多年后还能有新发现。

And he came across that bloody fingerprint from the doorknob, and it was the exact kind of thing that could be rerun all these years later and provide new results.

你猜怎么着？

And wouldn't you know it?

他真的比对上了。

He got a hit.

在他眼里，这案子算是结了。

So in his mind, case closed.

但2014年时，那人早就死了，根本没法起诉。

Now couldn't prosecute the guy because by 2014, that guy was already dead.

于是他就把案子标为结案，通知了家属，又告诉了当年负责这个案子的那位老侦探。

So he just marked the case closed, told the family, and then told the former detective who worked the case.

就是我们故事开头提到的谢泼德警探。

That's detective Shepherd who we started the story with.

但奇怪的是，谁都不肯告诉谢泼德凶手的名字，所以我们后来能告诉他真相时，才特别激动——那都已经是十多年后了。

But for some reason, no one would tell Shepherd the guy's name who did it, which is why we were so excited to be able to tell Shepard over ten years later.

凶手叫保罗·布斯塔曼特。

The killer's name was Paul Bustamante.

我们最早是从梅兰妮的妹妹那里听说的，但她接着又说了件更让人震惊的事。

We first learned it from Melanie's sister, but then she told us something even more shocking.

保罗·布斯塔曼特还杀过另一个女人，一位叫沃尔夫老师的女教师。

Paul Bustamante had killed a second woman, a teacher named miss Wolfe.

那时候她手头早就没有梅兰妮案的资料了，谢泼德警探只依稀记得，那起案子发生在弗雷斯诺，或者可能是萨克拉门托，加州北部某个地方。

Now she didn't have Melanie's case records handy anymore, and all detective Shepherd could remember about this other case was that it happened in Fresno or maybe Sacramento, somewhere in Northern California.

于是我们的记者玛莉卡·多利沃尔翻遍了旧报纸，找所有姓‘沃尔夫’的女性，最后终于找到了她。

So our reporter, Malika Dollywall, scoured old newspapers for anything about a woman with the last name Wolf, and she was able to find her.

27岁的伊丽莎白·沃尔夫在梅兰妮遇害一年多后被杀，地点离洛杉矶400英里外的加州戴维斯，有意思的是，那里正好是另一所加州大学分校——戴维斯分校的所在地。

27 year old Elizabeth Wolf was killed more than a year after Melanie, 400 miles away from LA in Davis, California, which interestingly is the location of another UC campus, UC Davis.

和梅兰妮一样，伊丽莎白当时也正处于搬家的阶段。

And just like Melanie, Elizabeth was in the throes of relocation.

她刚搬回戴维斯，几年前她就是在那里大学毕业的，这次是因为在当地一所聋童学校找到了教职。

She had just moved back to Davis where she had graduated from college a few years earlier because she got a job teaching at a local school for deaf children.

但她连第一天上班都没撑到，搬进新公寓才两天，就被杀害了。

But she never even made it to her first day of school because after just two days at her new apartment, she was murdered.

他挑受害者就是看这个吗？

Is is that how he picked his victims?

老天，我哪知道啊。

Dude, I have no idea.

梅兰妮是刚搬出去，

I mean, Melanie was moving out.

伊丽莎白却是刚搬进来。

Elizabeth was just moving in.

但在我看来，这巧合得实在太过分了，不可能不引起注意。

But to me, it seems like too much of a coincidence to ignore.

对啊。

Right.

尤其是想到梅兰妮之前还被人跟踪过。

Especially if you consider, like, Melanie was being stalked.

他居然躲在窗外偷看。

Like, he's peering into a window.

房间里就剩下一堆纸箱，空荡荡的。

There's just boxes in empty rooms.

这简直就是同一个模式。

It's like the same telltale.

没错。

Yeah.

都是同样的迹象。

Same telltale signs.

他可能也想到了，刚搬家的人通常更容易分心。

And he could have realized that, like, someone in the middle of a move might be more distracted.

毕竟搬家的时候，门老开着，进进出出的特别频繁。

Like, doors are open a lot as you're coming and going more frequently.

可问题是，为什么呢？

But why, though?

我们现在知道，这人应该不是认识梅兰妮的，至少我是这么猜的。

Like, now we know it wasn't someone that knew Melanie, or at least I'm assuming he didn't.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Correct.

据我们所知，梅兰妮·霍威尔和伊丽莎白·沃尔夫都不认识保罗·布斯塔曼特。

As far as we can tell, Melanie Howell did not know Paul Bustamante, and neither did Elizabeth Wolff.

他好像就是随机挑了这几个女人下手，但我也说不清他到底为啥这么干。

It seems like he just targeted these women out of the blue, but I don't have a great answer for why.

因为我们的记者从戴维斯警局拿到了伊丽莎白的记录，她遇袭的方式几乎一模一样。

Because our reporter got Elizabeth's records from Davis PD, and she was attacked almost the same way.

她好像是去开门，结果没过多久，那男人就捅了她十四刀。

It seems like she answered the door to someone, and pretty quickly after that, the guy stabbed her 14 times.

没有性侵。

No sexual assault.

然后那家伙跑了，但在伊丽莎白家门的内外都留下了指纹。

Then the guy runs, leaving fingerprints both on the inside and outside of Elizabeth's front door.

在伊丽莎白这起案子中，他好像确实拿了她的包，但我不确定抢劫是不是他行凶的动机，毕竟他完全没必要下这么重的手就能拿到包。

Now in Elizabeth's case, it seems like he did take her purse, But I don't know if we can say that this was the motive for the attack because it seems like he could have gotten her purse without what he did to her.

现在我们知道他干的又是老一套了。

And now that we know he did the same thing as before

是的。

Yeah.

我觉得抢劫应该不是他的主要目的，但他们是怎么把保罗跟这案子联系上的？

I I doubt that was his motivation, but how did they end up linking Paul?

这可花了好长时间。

Well, it took a long time.

而且说实话，好多年里，很多人都觉得伊丽莎白的案子已经结了，因为他们相信是连环杀手亨利·李·卢卡斯干的。

And, actually, for years, a lot of people considered Elizabeth's case closed because they believed that serial killer Henry Lee Lucas was responsible.

我知道。

I know.

就像他之前对那么多案子做的那样——

So like he did with so

我可以告诉你他们为什么这么想。

many I can tell you why they thought that.

他亲口承认了谋杀，他们就信了。

He confessed to her murder, and they believed him.

没错。

Exactly.

显然，1983年的时候，他说的话足够有说服力。

And apparently, there was enough said that made him convincing in 1983.

当然。

Sure.

这可是他的惯用手法。

That was his MO.

但随着时间推移，人们渐渐看穿了卢卡斯的真面目。

But as time went on and as people started seeing Lucas for what he was

是个骗子。

A liar.

开始有人怀疑了。

Doubts started creeping in.

所以1990年，一位戴维斯警局的侦探悄悄重新翻了案卷，发现卢卡斯的供词里漏洞百出，根本不可信。

So in 1990, quietly, without much public attention, a Davis police detective looked back at the evidence, and they found enough issues with Lucas' confession to actually rule him out.

但那时候，他也没能找到其他嫌疑人。

But that detective couldn't find anyone else at the time to rule in.

直到2011年，这案子才被重新审视，他们把当时收集的指纹卡送到了加州司法部。

So it wasn't until 2011 that her case got a fresh look, and that's when they sent the fingerprint cards that they had to the California DOJ.

然后，突然之间。

And boom.

保罗·布斯塔曼特。

Paul Bustamante.

他的指纹在系统里是因何留下的？

And what were his prints in the system for?

因为，你知道的，

Because, like,

在比对伊丽莎白和梅兰妮的案子时，他的指纹就出现了。

they were there when comparing for both Elizabeth and Melanie.

梅兰妮的案子大概是2014年左右才被重新比对的。

And Melanie did get compared to, like, 2014 or something like that.

我不确定到底是哪一次才把他指纹录入系统的，但他从1968年就开始有案底了。

I don't know which thing that, like, exactly got his print put into the system, but he had a rap sheet going back to, like, 1968.

持械抢劫、扰乱治安、妨碍警察执法、盗窃、入室行窃——简直一长串，没完没了。

I mean, armed robbery, disorderly conduct, obstructing or delaying a police officer or theft burglary, like like, it goes on and on.

他们 probably早就存了他的指纹，好几十年了。

Like, they probably had his prints for decades.

对。

Mhmm.

但关键在这儿。

But here's the thing.

之前我提到过Melanie的案子，就是2010年那个标记。

Earlier, I was talking about Melanie's case, that 2010 marker.

他们用来比对的司法部数据库，那时候还很新。

The DOJ database that they had for comparing this stuff was fairly new.

所以那些老的指纹卡片——比如案发现场或者抓人时留下的——都得一个个录入系统。

So, like, old evidence cards that they would have with prints on them, like, from crime scenes or from, like, when someone was arrested, like, those had to be, like, put into the system.

没错。

Right.

所以在系统上线之前，Elizabeth案里那个Prince被比对之前，这家伙一直逍遥法外，直到2006年去世。那时候距离Elizabeth案比对Prince还差五年，距离Melanie案比对指纹更是差了八年。

So while like, before we had the system, before the prince in Elizabeth's case were run, dude was just out there that whole time as a free man, or at least he was up until 2006 because that is when he died, which is five years before they even ran Prince in Elizabeth's case and eight years before the ones in Melanie's case got run.

所以他就这么逍遥法外了，犯下这些命案。

So he just got away with these murders.

说不定还不止这些。

And maybe more.

因为他的尸体三年没人认领，最后被火化了。

Because after three years of his body being unclaimed, it ended up getting cremated.

等人们意识到该拿他的DNA去比对那些陈年旧案时，已经晚了。

So by the time people realized that this is a guy they wish they could have a DNA sample to compare to cold cases for too late.

真的太晚了。

It was too late.

我们后来找到了莫哈罗警探，就是当年结案的那位。

And we did get detective Mojaro, the one who originally closed Melanie's case.

我们请他回答了一个问题。

We got him to answer a question for us.

你觉得保罗·布斯塔曼特是连环杀手吗？

Do you think Paul Bustamante is a serial killer?

他跟我们说，是的。

And he told us, yes.

他认为，调查人员没把他和其他案子联系起来，就是缺了这份DNA。

He thinks the only reason investigators haven't connected him to other cases is because they don't have that DNA.

明白了。

Okay.

但我问他，为什么他不把保罗的名字告诉其他侦探呢？

But my question for him is why wouldn't he tell the other detective Paul's name?

这事儿为啥之前从来没人提过？

Like, why hasn't this been reported before?

他说，根本没什么特别的原因。

So he told us that there was no big reason.

他说，除非局长亲自要求，不然他一般不会主动公开或分享破案的细节。

He's like, I just don't go out of my way to publicize or share details about cases that get solved in general unless the chief asks, like, asked me to.

他还说，为了保护梅兰妮家人的隐私，他连谢泼德侦探都没告诉，这让我觉得挺奇怪的。

And he said he wanted to protect Melanie's family's privacy by not sharing the info with anyone, including detective Shepherd, which, again, it feels odd to me.

我从来没听说过

I've never heard

这事儿。

of that.

但问题是

But, like

你还说这信息根本就没写进案卷里。

And, like, you also said it wasn't even in, like, the case file.

根本就找不到这资料啊。

Like, the information wasn't there to get.

对吧？

Right?

老兄，我真不知道。

Dude, I don't know.

好吧。

Okay.

好吧，还有问题，但你先说下去。

Again, more questions, but continue.

保罗·布斯塔曼特没牵扯进其他任何洛杉矶警局的案子。

Paul Bustamante isn't a suspect in any other LAPD cases.

你听好了。

And listen.

莫哈罗根本没法深挖这事儿，也没法去查他可能涉及的其他旧案，因为他的案子早就结了。

Mojaro couldn't do a deep dive into the sky or go looking for other old homicides that he might be connected to because his case got closed.

在洛杉矶，每天都有新案子砸过来，他们忙都忙不过来。

And every day in LA, they were being thrown new homicides to work.

这个我懂，真的。

I mean, like, I get that.

但正因如此，才轮到我们出手了。

But that's where we come in.

好的，犯罪爱好者们。

Okay, Crime Junkies.

我特别喜欢剧情反转，尤其是当一个人最后被发现根本不是表面上那样时。

You know I absolutely love a twist and a turn, especially when it comes to people who turn out to be someone they're not.

所以我一直超爱听那个叫《变色龙》的播客。

That's why I have been obsessed with the podcast Chameleon.

每周四，主持人乔什·迪恩都会深挖一个离谱到让你直呼‘他们怎么就没被发现？’的骗局。

Every Thursday, host Josh Dean deep dives into a scam so bizarre, it will leave you wondering, how did they get away with that?

这现在是我最爱的播客之一，我都听好几年了。

It is truly one of my favorite podcasts right now, and I've been listening for years.

我觉得你一定会喜欢。

I think you'll love it too.

去你平时听播客的地方搜《变色龙》就能听到。

Listen to Chameleon wherever you get your podcasts.

所以保罗·布斯塔曼特在这两个案子的调查中从来都不是嫌疑人，这意味着当我们的记者马利卡想深挖这个人时，根本没任何线索可循。

So Paul Bustamante was never a suspect during the investigations of either of these cases, which means when our reporter Malika started trying to deep dive into this guy, there was nothing to go off of.

啥都没有啊——没有采访记录，没有证词，连他个人背景都查不到。

Like, none of the stuff we normally have, interviews, statements, background on this guy.

我们手里就只有他的名字、两个地点，还有警探米哈罗的记忆——说他可能身上有军旅纹身。

All we had was his name, two locations, and detective Miharo's memory that he might have had some kind of military tattoo.

这难度可真够大的。

Good luck.

不过幸运的是，现在光靠一个名字，你就能挖出不少信息，多到你想不到。

Now luckily, these days, you can learn a lot from a name, more than you would think.

这是我们的发现。

And here's what we found.

保罗1946年出生在洛杉矶。

Paul was born in LA in 1946.

他早年的经历我们知之甚少，但根据人口普查记录，他可能是被收养的，后来由姨妈和姨父养大。

We don't know much about his early life, but from census records, it looks like that he may have been adopted and then raised by an aunt and uncle.

他也在洛杉矶地区上过高中。

And he went to high school in the LA area too.

而保罗从小当成父亲和哥哥的那两个人，都当过兵。

Now the men Paul likely knew as his dad and his brother both served military.

从军方记录里我们发现，保罗也参过军。

And from military records, we learned that Paul did too.

他1966年入伍，在德国当步兵和无线电操作员，直到1968年退伍。

He joined the army in 1966, served overseas in Germany as a rifleman and a radio operator until he was discharged in 1968.

这事儿一说出来，梅兰妮的男友就恍然大悟了——如果保罗真是那个躲在灌木丛里的跟踪者，那他能跑得那么快，就说得通了，毕竟受过军事训练。

And, honestly, this kind of clicked for Melanie's boyfriend because if Paul was also the stalker that he saw in the bushes, that would explain how he was able to outrun him because of his military training.

婚姻记录显示，1972年保罗娶了一位加州大学戴维斯分校的社会学博士生。

Now marriage records show that in 1972, Paul got married to a woman who was a PhD student at UC Davis studying sociology.

我不确定他们是搬去北方后才认识的，还是因为认识了她才搬过去的，不过这事儿挺有意思的。

Now I don't know if he met her after he moved north or if he moved north, like, because he met her or whatever reason, but this is kind of an interesting side note.

这位女士读博期间，给女子监狱的囚犯上课，还写过一篇叫《女性犯罪的本质》的论文。

So while this woman was getting her PhD, she taught classes to inmates at a women's prison, and she authored a paper called the nature of female criminality.

所以她基本上

So she's basically

是研究犯罪行为的专家。

an expert on criminal behavior.

我太想跟她聊聊了。

I am dying to talk to this woman.

这问题可能有点傻。

This is a silly question.

我们联系过她了吗？

Did we reach out to her?

当然联系了，但她压根儿没回我们的采访请求。

Of course, we reached out to her, but she didn't even respond to our request for an interview.

但我真的特别想知道她是怎么想的。

But I am so interested in hearing what she has to say.

说实话，啥都行，但特别想听她说说这事。

Honestly, about anything, but specifically about this.

没错。

Truly.

所以如果她本人，或者认识她的人在听，我们特别希望能跟你们聊聊。

So if she or anyone who knows her is listening, we would love to have any kind of conversation.

那她和伊丽莎白是一起去的加州大学戴维斯分校吗？

So did she go to UC Davis with Elizabeth?

她们那时候在同一个地方，不过伊丽莎白是本科生。

So they were there at the same time, but Elizabeth was an undergrad.

再说，那学校可大了。

And, I mean, it is a big school.

我只知道，不管她们当时是什么关系，都没持续多久——三年后，也就是1975年，他们就离婚了。

All I know is that whatever their relationship was, it didn't last long because they divorced three years later in 1975.

结果才过了一年，梅兰妮就在洛杉矶被杀了。

And then it's just a year later that Melanie is murdered in LA.

所以，他肯定有段时间回到了洛杉矶，但我不清楚他是搬去那儿住，还是只是去探个亲，或者别的什么原因。

So at some point, he had to have made his way back down to LA, but I don't know if that was to live and he moved, if this was just a visit or what.

据我所知，他跟梅兰妮就读的那所学校根本没什么关联。

And as far as I can tell, he wouldn't have had any ties to the school that Melanie was going to.

所以我觉得，她们根本不可能在那里碰上。

So I doubt that they crossed paths there.

但梅兰妮曾在一家免费诊所做志愿者，我们聊过的侦探们猜测，那家诊所会不会是退伍军人事务部（VA），因为那地方离她住的公寓很近。

But Melanie did volunteer at a free clinic, and the detectives that we spoke to wondered if maybe that could have been a VA, which was and still is close to the apartment that she lived in.

而且保罗是退伍军人，说不定他就是她的病人之一，或者至少在那儿见过她。

And because Paul was a vet, maybe he was one of her patients, or maybe he at least saw her there.

但这纯粹就是大家在瞎猜。

But that's literally just everyone taking a wild guess.

所以他是在76年杀了梅兰妮。

So he murdered Melanie in 7676.

然后在77年杀了伊丽莎白。

And Elizabeth in '77.

那77年到2006年之间，他到底在干啥？

What was he doing between '77 and 2006?

这正是关键问题。

That's the big question.

我知道77年他从萨克拉门托重新入伍了陆军预备役，之后就一直小偷小摸，直到去世。

I know in '77, he reenlisted in the army reserves out of Sacramento, and then he kept committing petty crimes until he died.

他后半辈子就在加州北部和南部来回晃荡。

And the rest of his life, he bounced back and forth between Northern And Southern California.

所以我一直在想，会不会还有别的案子没被发现。

So I wonder if there are more cases out there.

听好了。

And listen.

咱们以前这么干过，效果不错，这次为啥不试试？

This has worked when we've done it before, so why not try it again?

如果有哪位调查人员在听，手头有个和这类似的陈年旧案，发邮件给我们。

If any investigators are out there listening and you have a cold case that sounds similar to this, email us.

或者你要是知道家乡有哪个年轻女孩，刚搬了家没几天，就在公寓里被人刺死，但又没遭性侵，也请联系我。

Or if you know a local case from your hometown where a young woman maybe just made a move, like, within a couple of days, and then she was stabbed inside her apartment, but there was no sexual assault, contact me.

邮箱是 tips@audiochuck.com。

The email is tips@audiochuck.com.

我还想找找看，有没有人认识保罗·布斯塔曼特——邻居、同事、战友、熟人，只要是还活着的，都行。

And I'm also looking for anyone out there who knew Paul Bustamante, neighbors, coworkers, army buddies, acquaintances, anyone who may still be alive today.

再次提醒，有线索请发邮件到 tips@audiochuck.com。

Again, email me tips@audiochuck.com.

伊丽莎白·沃尔夫去世后，她的父母在加州大学戴维斯分校设立了伊丽莎白·玛丽·沃尔夫环境学习中心。

When Elizabeth Wolf died, her parents established the Elizabeth Mary Wolf Environmental Learning Center out of UC Davis.

为了纪念她和梅兰妮，我们捐了一笔款。

And so in honor of her and Melanie, we've made a donation.

我们网站 crimejunkie.com 上会放上相关链接和本集的所有资料。

And we're gonna have a link to that and all of our source material for this episode on our website, crimejunkie.com.

你还可以关注

And you can follow

我们在 Instagram 上的账号是 crime junkie Podcast。

us on Instagram at crime junkie Podcast.

《Crime Junkie》是 AudioChuck 的出品。

Crime Junkie is an audiochuck production.

我觉得查克他

I think Chuck would

通过。

approve.

有些

Some

有些案件后来就从新闻里消失了。

cases fade from headlines.

有些根本就没上过头条。

Some never made it there to begin with.

我是艾什莉·弗劳尔斯，在我的播客《The Deck》里，我会讲那些被印在扑克牌上、在监狱里分发的冷案故事——这些扑克牌就是为了唤醒新线索，给受害者讨回迟来的公道。

I'm Ashley Flowers, and on my podcast, The Deck, I tell you the stories of cold cases featured on playing cards distributed in prisons designed to spark new leads and bring long overdue justice.

因为这些故事值得被听见，这些受害者的家人也依然值得一个答案。

Because these stories deserve to be heard, and the loved ones of these victims still deserve answers.

准备好入局了吗？

Are you ready to be dealt in?

现在就去你常用的播客平台收听《The Deck》吧。

Listen to the deck now wherever you get your podcasts.