By October of that year, she had already scored a promotion to lead programmer and seemed destined for greater things. That day, Arpana showed up for work as if it were any other workday, but told some of her coworkers about a party being held that evening at her apartment complex. Naomi pulled her sources from: ww.londonlives.org murderpedia.org twitter.com/vagina_museum Then Amber covers Vernon, Florida also known as Nub City, where an unusually large number of residents were receiving accidental , In April of 2017 in a foreboding home in Nanthancode Kerala, 4 members of a family were found hacked to death. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/07/who-killed-carol-jenkins https://aaregistry.org/story, Ashley Fantz speaks with Matt Shaer, the host of Suspect Season 1, about her own theories surrounding the Jonelle Matthews case, the reporting challenges she faced after Steve Pankeys mistrial, and the questions she'd still like answered. He believes that it was an accident and that Amy must have fallen on the rake. She had been posthumously covered in numerous liquids, including bleach and motor oil, which the killer had undoubtedly use to try and cover up the crime scene. When her car mysteriously surfaced weeks later, hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, no one could say how it got there. would later tell police that he was "kind of wanting to explore" and could offer up no further explanation for his bizarre actions. While border officials were able to quickly stop him, they ordered a search of his vehicle and ultimately turned him away because he didn't have a passport on him. There were really intense, long jury deliberations for the first trial and hearing about that from people who were truly going in cold to this case and this story, I thought it was really fascinating and not a place I really imagined that wed be going at the beginning. And the energy with which many of the people pursued this case it is tragic, what happened. Why did it play out like it did? C.J. In 2008, a 24-year-old Redmond-based software engineer named Arpana Jinaga was found strangled in her apartment after a Halloween party in her building. That was surprising. One of the women that Fair called, whom he phoned three times at around 4:45 AM, said that his calls had gone straight to voicemail. told investigators: The morning after the Halloween party - when investigators believed Arpana was killed and the killer began covering up his tracks, ultimately stealing Arpana's cell phone and digital camera - C.J. All that we know for sure is that Arpana had already lived a full life by the age of 24, and could have continued changing the world for the better. Police had already determined that Arpana's body had been covered in that type of motor oil, so whoever had handled it had likely been involved in her death. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Id written anarticle about DNA forensic science for The Atlantic, and I was like everybody else I thought that DNA worked like it did on Law & Order, where its a green light. After nine years of awaiting his fate, 35-year-old Emanuel Fair was released from custody just hours after being acquitted in the death of Arpana Jinaga. While C.J. It would soon become clear to them that someone had attempted to scrub the apartment of their presence, wiping bleach onto several pieces of furniture, as well as a table in the living room (from which, fluid had spilled down onto the carpet, permanently staining it). Theories, rumors and speculations abound in this episode. as an uncharged accomplice). She was found murdered in her apartment after a . Since its release on Aug. 31,Suspecthas vaulted to the top spot on Chartables U.S. rankings of most listened to Apple podcasts. But instead of returning home to India, she decided to take another huge leap and accepted a job as a software quality assurance engineer with the tech giant EMC (now known as Dell EMC). Muhammad Ali, one of Arpana's co-workers at EMC in Bellevue, would attempt to call her but was unable to get through to her cell phone. #JusticiaParaBlanca https://www.the-sun.com/news/6770173/who-was-blanca-arellano-and-what-happened-to-her/ htt, As the Matthews resign themselves to the possibility that they may never know their daughters fate, the investigation into one suspect heats up. Amber pulled her sources from: Dateline Podcast - "The Night Brianna Vanished" www.buzzfeed, 24 year old Daniel Robinson Jr. abruptly left a job site in the Buckeye, Arizona dessert on June 23, 2021. Lt. Brian Coats would later tell reporters about the crime scene: "It was a scene where the suspect or suspects spent a considerable amount of time covering the evidence of crime. Naomi pulled her sources from: www.the-sun.com www.app.com people.compatch.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz7NiR070CQ Then Amber covers the disappearance of Kirsten Brueggeman. Season 2: Vanished in the Snow chronicles the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews. Despite not even knowing how to ride a motorcycle at the time, she purchased a Suzuki and began attending classes to learn how to safely ride it. There is no apparent reason why someone would want to take this person from the prime of her life.". This case has been said to currently have zero suspects at this point in time. We're not going to put this to bed. The two hung out often after Arpana moved to the Redmond area, but had begun to drift apart in the weeks before the murder (due to Arpana spending her free time volunteering and participating in her motorcycle club). On April 8, 2016, dismembered body parts were discovered in recycling bins around Seattle. Later that night, shes dropped off to an empty house. A witness that was returning home from work that evening at around 3:00 AM - who had not attended the Halloween party, but lived nearby - later told police that they saw a non-black individual standing in the doorway of Arpana's apartment at around 3:00 AM. Todd Mullis found his wife, Amy, dead in their barn with a corn rake sticking in her back. would admit that during this time, he had stopped taking his psychiatric medication. A new true-crime podcast delves into the complicated murder case of a rising 24-year-old . October 31st, 2008 - Halloween - had the rare fortune of falling on a Friday. Support us by supporting our sponsors! Emanuel Fair's defense attorneys would also contest the state's claims that he had acted alongside an accomplice; stating that he wasn't on-trial for crimes that he and/or someone else may have committed. Jinaga's friends are glad to hear someone is finally being tried for her death. Hosted by Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson, the series revolves around the 2008 murder of 24-year-old computer programmer Arpana Jinaga, who was found dead after a Halloween party at a quiet Seattle apartment complex, and the complex investigation that followed. Host Matthew Shaer and and reporter Eric Benson go to the scene of the crime in an effort to discover if police identified the right suspect. What really happened? Sergeant Jill Evans is a small town cop in Wales with an impressive r, A suspect is finally put on trial for the disappearance of Jonelle Matthews. A handful of years before the murder of Arpana Jinaga, Emanuel Fair had been arrested and charged with raping a minor. And while TrueAllele had not yet been used by a prosecution in Washington state at this point, it had been used to obtain dozens of convictions all over the country and was seen as a reliable tool for law enforcement. Support us by supporting our sponsors! It was truly a scene right out of a horror movie. Bollywood Corner - Mississ, This week, Naomi takes us to the UK where a self-proclaimed psychopath with a conscience murdered two single mothers, six months apart. Arpana B. Jinaga grew up in Hyderabad, one of the largest cities in all of India. However, without charging C.J. DNA Idea:https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-arpana-s-body-to-arrive-by-the-weekend-12040337. This sort of thing doesn't happen in Redmond. Naomi pulled her sources from: medium.com/elli_immo truecrimedetective.co.uk Theni Amber covers the story of a father and daughter lost in the outback. Amber pulled her sources from: A serial rapist who attacked strangers in Davis County will spend the rest of his life in prison Evil Lives Here 'Clearfield Rapist' Mark Burns sentenced to 242 years to life in prison FOX 13 Investigates:, This week Amber is joined by her younger sister, Marissa! Way back in 2014 (a millennia ago in internet years), the podcast Serial began, and the whole world stopped to listen. We cover murder with a splash of disappearances. She was the oldest of two daughters to her parents, B.C. If the state wanted to pursue charges against Emanuel Fair, then they were well within their right to do so, but attempting to convict both him and an uncharged accomplice for crimes that they might have committed together was unconstitutional. She never made it home alive. They can be found on Instagram @readrunsea; In the year since Emanuel Fair's second trial came to an end, the story has received close to no attention from the world-at-large. claim that over the next several days and weeks, he made vague statements alluding to him going over to Arpana's apartment in his sleep; which, when you factor in him having quit psychiatric medication a short time prior, seems worrisome. As a teen, she participated in an IEEE Hardware Design Contest that earned her some attention from universities and potential employers, and seemed to cement her down the path of computing. claims to have woken up at around 10:00 AM. Fair would begin serving out his four-year sentence in 2004 but was released by the end of 2006, serving less than three years and being labeled a "level one" offender (the ones that were least likely to re-offend). By January of 2009, it was reported that work on the case had started to stall, but investigators were still optimistic, due to the aforementioned physical evidence, which they were still awaiting the results of. Please support us by supporting our sponsors. would attend a party at a friend's house in Everett, and while there, attempted to wrestle them. This is minisode fifteen, the. Prosecutors made it clear that they'd be pursuing a life sentence, due to the brutality of the crime (not the standard 35-45 year sentence for 1st-degree murder). Emanuel Fair's innocence would be asserted by his defense attorneys in the months and years to come, who insisted that he receive proper treatment under the law; which, they alleged, prosecutors were refusing to give to him, as had the investigators from the very beginning of this case. Speaking to the Redmond Reporter, some of the club's members would remember Arpana as the fun-loving, ambitious young woman she had been - not just the victim she had become in local newspapers. She moved to the U.S. to accomplish life goals and live the Dream, but instead, an unknown monster turned her life into a Nightmare. , This week, Naomi tells us about the murder of Elli Immo, in the Laplands of Finland, a horrific slaying still unsolved 65 years later. This eventually led to her moving to the United States to attend Rutger's University in New Jersey. In pretrial motions filed by Fair's attorneys, it was claimed that Emanuel Fair, a black man, had been treated very differently from other suspects or POIs (most of whom were white). 24 year old Arpana Jinaga was once a teenage technology prodigy who excelled in living life to the fullest. Together, they decided to enter Arpana's apartment to check in on her, but when they knocked on the apartment door, it swung open. Its absence led investigators to speculate that robbery had played some kind of motive, as the killer might have stolen the bike to flee from the scene, but police would later locate the motorcycle at a repair shop in Everett, where Arpana had taken it days prior. Because of the scene left behind at the apartment complex, it was obvious that whoever had killed Arpana Jinaga had broken in and specifically targeted her, subjecting her to a violent assault and a rape (which would later be confirmed during her autopsy). The description they gave to police more closely resembled C.J. We also talk about Remote Viewing & Astral projection, how strange & esoteric the concept seems and yet the CIA was SO into it all back in the day. As you can imagine, this analysis was seen as invaluable to the prosecution, who saw this as being ironclad proof of Fair's guilt. Browse for Arpana Jinaga interviews, guest appearances, and call . and Nirmala Jinaga, a professor of computer engineering and a housewife, respectively. It tells the story of Jill Evans, a decorated police sergeant in Wales. The crime scene itself was a maelstrom of forensic evidence because more than a dozen people had been inside of Arpana Jinaga's apartment just hours before her death, attending the Halloween party. It was important for us to take the case as a whole and consider all the directions that it mightve gone, yes, but not to draw any conclusions. Writing, research, hosting, and production by Micheal Whelan, Producers: Maggyjames, Roberta Janson, Ben Krokum, Peggy Belarde, Quil Carter, Victoria Reid, Laura Hannan, Gabriella Bromley, Amy Hampton, Steven Wilson, Scott Meesey, Damion Moore, Astrid Kneier, Marie Vanglund, Scott Patzold, Lori Rodriguez, Aimee McGregor, Sue Kirk, Sydney Scotton, Sara Moscaritolo, Thomas Ahearn, Seth Morgan, Alyssa Lawton, Marion Welsh, Jared Midwood, Patrick Laakso, Kelly Jo Hapgood, Meadow Landry, Rebecca Miller, Tatum Bautista, Travis Scsepko, Teunia Elzinga, Erin Pyles, Jo Wong, Jacinda B., Ryan Green, Consuelo Moreno, Kelly Harris, and Emi Coates, Music throughout the episode was composed by Jake Mooshian. On Thursday, June 6th, 2019, the 12 members of the jury began deliberating, and originally found themselves deadlocked yet again (split into groups of 4: innocent, guilty, and undecided). She was 24-years-old when she was killed on November 1st, 2008, and would now be 35. Who knows what kind of things she might have accomplished by now? This is when police learned about the argument Arpana had gotten in with another partygoer, which was described as being "race-related." Prior to that, she had attended Rutgers University on the east coast, but had grown up in the Indian city of Hyderabad as the oldest of two daughters. Support us by supporting our sponsors! Yahoo News:https://www.yahoo.com/video/m-m-not-free-man-150700113.html15. After his release from prison in November of 2006, Fair would begin a three-year process of floating between prison and homelessness; this included the period in which Arpana Jinaga was murdered. Even though Emanuel Fair and other defendants all over the country began to demand access to the software's underbelly, Dr. Perlin was willing to take the issue to court to preserve his company's share in the burgeoning forensic analysis market, having already scored deals with law enforcement agencies all over the country. His Jeep was later found crashed 3 miles from the job site, but Daniel has still not been found. Continue Reading >> Listen to audio about Arpana Jinaga. Suspect is a true crime podcast that examines the murder of Arpana Jinaga who was killed at a Halloween party hosted by her apartment complex. While Arpana didn't have any friends or family in the area, she didn't let that deter her from leaning into the community. Amber pulled her sources from: The Murder in my Family Podcast Pa. Yet, it seems like the limp had come from somewhere else, due to him arriving at the party with it; and it was theorized by investigators later on that the wrestling match was an cover by C.J. Roughly two months after the trial began, after weeks of gridlock, the trial would end with a hung jury. C.J. But over the next few years, Emanuel Fair would fail to abide by the terms of his release and was later jailed on probation violations. After leaving work, she would stop by a store to pick up some Halloween decorations, and began covering her apartment as other people began returning home and donning their costumes. DNA evidence linked her body to three men, one of them Emanuel Fair, a Black man. Arpana's apartment complex:https://www.apartments.com/valley-view-apartments-redmond-wa/pjp728s/12. But three days later, her body was found in her apartment, and the scene was not only gruesome, but incredibly confusing. The case turned into a classic whodunit, and Jinaga's costumed party guests were the prime suspects. In the weeks after Arpana's murder, Emanuel Fair was identified through photographs and eventually questioned. Posting comments is now limited to subscribers only. The Seattle Timesrecently spoke with Shaer and Benson over Zoom about the impetus for this podcast, what surprised them in their reporting and what their take-aways are from investigating this story. This week Amber covers the Carnation, Washington Christmas Eve murders. Not only was there just as much incriminating physical evidence implicating him in Arpana's death, but he had committed a ton of strange and bizarre acts around the time of her death that raised suspicion. Nobody heard from her in the following days, and that Monday, her body was discovered on the floor of her apartment, doused in chemicals and showing signs of strangulation. theres no closure for them, certainly from the justice system. By the age of 24, Arpana Jinaga had already lived a full and rewarding life and seemed poised to leave a positive impact on the rest of the world. Arpana Jinaga was a 24-year-old computer programmer, who had moved to the Pacific Northwest in March of 2008. We have a brutal murder with no suspect. A lot of stuff has not been analyzed yet. In October of 2010, King County prosecutors announced that they were filing charges against Emanuel Fair for the murder of Arpana Jinaga, based on evidence they had accumulated over nearly two years of investigating. Despite her not having any experience riding a motorcycle, she planned on using one as her primary mode of transportation. Now science has gotten very sophisticated. Photo: King County Prosecuting Attorneys Office, 'Dr. Benson: We didnt know that the Redmond [Police Department] was going to be willing to participate in the show. He then heard the sound of running water in Arpana's apartment, which lasted for about an hour, but wouldn't give these bizarre sounds any second thoughts in the days to come. Seeta Kaur - Khooni ft. Regardless, more than a decade has passed since the mysterious death of Arpana Jinaga, and no one has been held responsible for it. At some point in the evening, it would be reported that Arpana got into a verbal argument with a male partygoer. Despite the insistence from the Redmond Police Department that this case was their top priority, that didn't bring forth any answers in the months to come, as the workable leads only led investigators to numerous dead-ends. "We still consider it early in the investigation. She moved to the US to accomplish life goals & live the Dream but instead an unknown monster turned her life into a Nightmare. With multiple partygoers as potential suspects, it was unclear to police from the start who was actually behind this tragedy. Now inside, Jay and C.J. The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times. The jury was unable to come to a consensus regarding Fair's guilt, resulting in a mistrial. Both were seen together, and this would come up later - which is why I mention it - but both claim that their interaction lasted no more than 30 minutes or so, and they hadn't seen each other before or since. Make snippets of Arpana talking to create audio highlights to share with your friends or embed in related blog posts. The only man to be charged in the Oct. 31, 2008, slaying of Arpana Jinaga has been tried twice. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Investigators and prosecutors feel the same way about this individual because he was interviewed on more than four occasions in the weeks after Arpana's murder - more than any other suspect or POI - and at one point, investigators even wrote up probable cause paperwork to apply for this suspect's arrest. Its challenging in terms of race, in terms of policing, in terms of forensic science. ** This week, Naomi highlights the ever-looming threat of femicide, through the lens of a horrific crime committed upon a beautiful young Argentinian girl, whos murder galvanized a global movement. Suspect is a true crime podcast that examines the murder of Arpana Jinaga who was killed at a Halloween party hosted by her apartment complex.
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