On September 13, 2006, the Newport Beach Police Department in southern California received a call that there was a dead body floating in the harbor. The female victim had 52 stab wounds across her body, including a knife found still plunged into one of her eyes. Unable to make an identification through fingerprints, police looked to the serial numbers on the victim’s breast implants. The victim was identified as 56-year-old Barbara Mullenix from Huntington Beach, CA.

Police quickly zeroed in on their prime suspect, but as the investigation progressed, the forensic evidence seemed to point detectives in a completely different direction.

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