[noise] reporter: as the eighties rolled out their own catalog of horrors, drugs, urban decay, crime, donna fought to keep her memory of her sister from sinking under the troubles. she wrote letters, lots of them. and you listed lynn to help. i got that nice picture of lynn. i posted it here and said, sell yourself lynn. here goes, i m going to send. it reporter: you sent them where? the governor, the fbi. you even wrote to who, ronald reagan? yes, i had to go to key decision makers. reporter: but she was shouting in the wind. detectives hilton and capt. emilio paerels retired, not happy about what they left behind. this woman weighed on me for quite a long time. in the back of your head. you don t want to leave a homicide case undone. that s just, just wrong.
his sister don s wedding. no way now. we had to cancel the wedding. and it was just so horrible. a wedding is supposed to be a happy time. and nothing happy about those days. nope. reporter: but the wedding did offer an odd clue of sorts. lynn s invitation, which had been found crumpled up in her wastebasket. the question was? would she have rankled it up and thrown it in the trash? or did the suspect do it. reporter: the detectives killers were the detectives were convinced that they knew limb and hated her, the killer. who would slaughter someone, to that degree, if they didn t have a motive. a hatred? something. reporter: two weeks into the
called stratford, not far from toronto, canada. she was a beautiful person. reporter: this is her sister donna. she was jim carrey before jim carrey. she did the goofy stuff, everywhere people would be in stitches. reporter: nurses were in great demand in the seventies. lynn could have gone anywhere or stayed close to home, like her sister donna, also a nurse, chose to do. i had such difficulty when she was going to go to california. i did not want her to go. i reporter: but she did. moved into a tiny studio dip apartment tacked on to someone s garage in torrents. and she signed up with a hospital called little company of mary, where she went to work with the smallest patients of all, the most vulnerable, premature babies. those were her babies, she took her job very seriously. she would arrive early, do
that was interesting. because remember, dog told detectives he cut off all contact with lynn after their breakup. so they checked with lynn s neighbors and showed them the photo of doug. and his car. and i got a witness to identify mr. bradford as the person who had been seen driving back and forth in front of a residence, looking up the driveway. he would leave her alone? he wouldn t leave her alone. as a matter of fact, he stopped. her stalked her? yes, before the murder. reporter: which might explain, said her sister donna, why lynne stayed with a number of male friends for several nights before the murder. i know at the last week of her life, it looks like she slept with a lot of men. and that s not true. when i look at the pattern, my sister was afraid. she was scared. what reporter: so maybe dogs
had been underway for almost two weeks, the knight flu to l.a. to collect her belongings. they collected her mementos, even her financial records. it said a lot about lynn. this woman her bank was all of $18. because she paid for scuba dive english shuns and you name it, she just did it, she was packing in every activity she could possibly pack in. so she really lived a lot in those 20 years. reporter: but there was one thing donna didn t find. something quite special to both sisters. the invitation to her upcoming wedding. and then detective hilton remembered, he spotted it, in a wastebasket. although he didn t collected as evidence. i saw this wedding invitation. it was crumpled up. didn t seem like a big deal at the time? no, just a wedding