For Robbin Brandley, a 23-year-old student at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, being in a dark parking lot after a school concert turned out to be fatal. Shortly after 1 a.m. on January 18, 1986, Robbin’s body was found near her car by sheriff’s officials responding to a 911 call. She had been stabbed multiple times. “Her eyes were wide open staring into the sky,” Matt Murphy, a retired senior deputy D.A. with the O.C. D.A.’s Office, told The Real Murders of Orange County, airing
because that s awful, but that s what it was. the scene was a bloodbath. a young woman had been stabbed 41 times. we were so fearful. the first thing we said was, there s a psychotic person here running amuck on campus. and it was because of the brutality of it. we didn t know if he was right there, if he was hiding behind a tree. the level of fear was ramped up even more because because he stabbed her so much. police asked julia to help identify the body. and it took me about, i m gonna say, a few minutes to really say her name because they said, we really do need you to tell us. we need a confirmation. i said, robbin brandley. robbin brandley, 23 years old, a communications student at
then, and it has been an emotional rollercoaster ever since. urdiales confessed in excruciating detail about killing three women in illinois, five more in southern california, including robbin brandley, his first victim, a total stranger he stabbed 41 times in a parking lot at saddleback college when he was in the marines. i think i stabbed her once in the stomach. she let out a scream. to find out that it was completely random i mean, that s really hard to understand. and then urdiales told detective booth about one more who got away. she was a very pretty girl. i asked her how old she was. she said she was 19. i asked her what s her name. she said her name was jennifer. he described for me an incident where he picked up a girl and gave her a ride.