occurred, investigators couldn t find it anywhere in the area near her body. when police checked her cell phone records, they discovered someone had used her cell phone after her murder. one of the numbers called, a person told us that subject juan sanchez had called them. investigators tracked 23-year-old juan sanchez to his residence, and there, they found kathy s cell phone in his possession. but sanchez claimed he found the phone on the jogging path. he explained to us that he was riding his bike on the canal trail and he found the cell phone. he decided to use it for his personal use. sanchez showed police exactly where he found the phone. remarkably, it was just 50 feet
identified a potential lead. they were able to track a scent trail to a residential area in concord that was very close to the canal trail. a background check revealed a man living in this neighborhood had a criminal history. he also looked similar to the composite drawings. his name was mark fisher. he was known to be violent, violent to his relatives, violent to police officers and to other public officials. witnesses in the park were shown a photo lineup which included fisher s picture. at least three of the witnesses were positive that the photo of mr. fisher was the subject they had seen on the trail. but when investigators went to fisher s house, they got some shocking news. the police were met by a relative who told them, you haven t heard? my brother, mr. fisher, just killed himself, jumped off the golden gate bridge, committed suicide.
safe to go out on that trail. but that wasn t the only possibility. there are numerous access and exit points to this canal trail, either by the public roadways, by individuals using adjacent fields, and access gates. the murder weapon was a broken piece of metal fencing. this perpetrator actually broke off a piece of metal fence post and it appears that they waited for her to return from her walk and then dragged her off the trail. there was blood, but no prints on the murder weapon. kathy s autopsy confirmed that she d been sexually assaulted. the dna profile from kathy loreck s rape kit didn t match any in the statewide dna database of known criminal offenders. it didn t match juan sanchez,
and paying attention to detail in my opinion is what you have to do in each and every case to make sure that you don t miss anything. nothing you put on a computer is going to disappear unless it s at the bottom of the lake or somehow destroyed in the fire. it s going to follow you even if you think you have destroyed it. up next, a woman is murdered in broad daylight. this is the monster jumping out of the bushes and grabbing you and killing you. cell phone records and search dogs provided some leads. they were able to track a scent trail to a residential area that was close to the canal trail. but if not for some crafty police work and the chance encounter, the entire investigation could have gone up in smoke. we have an individual that s still out, walking about, who can do this again. i don t know how much scarier it can get. during her lunch break in concord, california, kathy
transient and homeless people on that trail previously and a lot of folks just felt it wasn t safe to go out on that trail. but that wasn t the only possibility. there are numerous access and exit points to this canal trail, either by the public roadways, by individuals using adjacent fields, and access gates. the murder weapon was a broken piece of metal fencing. this perpetrator actually broke off a piece of metal fence post and it appears that they waited for her to return from her walk and then dragged her off the trail. there was blood, but no prints on the murder weapon. kathy s autopsy confirmed that she d been sexually assaulted. the dna profile from kathy loreck s rape kit didn t match any in the statewide dna database of known criminal