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On this season of Crimes of the Times, Los Angeles Times journalist Christopher Goffard explores criminal cases that have left a mark on California history. This season’s stories include new developments in the Black Dahlia and Zodiac cases, the snitch scandal that rocked Orange County, the plight of the Japanese American woman known as Tokyo Rose, and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
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Crimes of the Times — Announcing: Crimes of the Times, Season 4. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
The Black Dolly a murder of 1947 is arguably California's most notorious unsolved case. Its only rival might be the zodiac murders a generation later. Now, an amateur sleuth is attracting attention with the claim that the same killer is responsible for both cases. I'm Christopher Gofford, host of Crimes of the Times. Check out our new season on YouTube and listen to it on Apple's Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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