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[Music] Tory Pines is a beautiful piece of nature in Southern California what's beautiful about a beach is also what's
dangerous about it there's a very different vibe of what it feels like to be there in the middle of the day versus
10 at night there is a little Fe feeling of you don't know exactly what's out there 1978 Barbara n and Jim malt
decided to go on a camping trip to the beach at Tory Pines stole my heart the minute I saw her you know it's that
feeling everyone gets you know when you when you find that person that fits they were really good together they
loved each other they had so much fun together and you could see it Barbara she was outspoken very popular funny Jim
great personality he was the life of the party and my sister was like that too Barbara and Jim set up their
sleeping bags on the beach itself and it was sometime in the night after they had
fallen asleep that they were attacked Jim Al had been beaten and was very severely injured I was knocked
unconscious I couldn't protect her I couldn't defend myself my dad looked at me and said your sister's been murdered
I didn't find out till years later how bad it really was I'm going to say the body was around this position here
somewhere they found her line here nude and she also had some uh some cut marks on one of her
breasts who would want a killer and and why 6 years later in 1984 another young woman Clare Hoff who was 14 was found
murdered on Tory Pines at nearly The Identical location I just said don't go down there alone I think about her just
about every day she was my best friend you get to this crime scene look at the body and
see what again there was a mutilation of the breast my first thought was hey this
is very similar to the one that happened 6 years ago how much evidence was there
how many leads not any at all really I just remember going crazy in my mind is there something I'm not
remembering is there something I saw I want to put a face to this crime cuz it's been faceless for almost 37
years there really was no big break until 2012 when police finally got hits on the DNA evidence that they had from
the crime scene San Diego Police have identified a former San Diego Police criminalist as one of two suspects in
the 1984 murder of 14-year-old Clare Huff it was a big surprise that of all people in the world you could find as a
suspect that it would be somebody who had actually worked for the police department he had a nickname in the
crime lab right you know what that was his nickname was kinky he liked strip clubs he liked taking pictures of women
my husband didn't do it he didn't go after teenagers I knew they were wrong this has multiple suspects there
are a variety of motives as a murder mystery this has everything you would want [Music]

Two teenage girls killed on the same California beach six years apart. DNA on one of the victims leads to two suspects — one of them worked for the police. "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. Watch Saturday, July 6 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

Brief Summary

The episode covers the murders of Barbara N. and Clare Hoff at Torrey Pines and the investigation that identified a police criminalist as a suspect.

Key points

The Tragic Camping Trip. Barbara and Jim's camping trip turns into a nightmare when they are attacked at night.
A Pattern of Violence. Six years later, another young woman is found murdered in a similar manner.
A Shocking Suspect. In 2012, a former police criminalist is identified as a suspect in the murder case.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I couldn't protect her. I couldn't defend myself.

Reflecting on the night of the attack.

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