.Marina Habes body was found on New Years Day, 1969, by a dog. The body had been tossed to the bottom of a ravine off Mulholland Drive, and when police arrived, the dogs owner said he wanted to be sure his name got in the paper.
Every detail of Marinas murder and the time on either side of it left some sliver of absurdity. She was 17, coming home alone late at night from a date, got to her driveway and then, as her mother watched from a windowawakened by the sound of a racing engine and not knowing whether the man standing beside her daughters car was friend or foedisappeared into another car. The coroner said she was held for a day, fed, raped, and stabbed
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