Doctor’s Orders | 2. Mystery Woman

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Speaker 6 So Juliana and I are four days apart. My birthday is October 21st.
She's October 25th.

Speaker 1 This is Jessica, Juliana Redding's childhood friend. She's telling us some important things that happened in October 2007 with Juliana's boss or boyfriend or both, the doctor, Munir Ueda.

Speaker 1 They'd met a few months earlier in July.

Speaker 6 And so for our 21st birthdays, we all kind of came up with, you know everybody wants to do a big 21st so we did i did had a party here in san diego and at my birthday she had mentioned for hers she wanted to do vegas this is about six months before juliana was murdered and she said my boss

Speaker 6 maybe she said his menir

Speaker 6 is

Speaker 6 going

Speaker 6 to put he's put together a birthday party for me in Vegas.

Speaker 6 and he's gonna fly us out there and he's taking care of the hotel and he's got he's planned like a whole fun weekend surprise weekend for me and so he like my friends and so myself and Juliana and two other girls were going with Juliana for this Vegas trip at this time Munir is Juliana's boss she's his highly paid assistant He is an orthopedic surgeon and a businessman.

Speaker 1 He's also into real estate. He's given Juliana a place to live, a mansion in Beverly Hills, and a car to drive, a white Range Rover.

Speaker 1 And for her 21st birthday, he was offering a private plane from Santa Monica, California to Las Vegas, her and her friends, a suite at the win, all expenses paid.

Speaker 1 So Juliana asked Jessica and two other besties to come along. Although several people did tell me that Juliana was romantically involved with Munir, Jessica says it didn't seem romantic, not then.

Speaker 6 Again, it wasn't until Vegas.

Speaker 6 It wasn't that it was, I thought they were having a relationship. It was that I thought he liked her.

Speaker 6 It wasn't anything sexual.

Speaker 6 It wasn't like when she saw him, she gave him a kiss. Like, they didn't even make out, you know? Like, there was no.

Speaker 6 Like, I think, like, if there is a relationship, like a kiss, like something romantic, they weren't heavily, like, she wasn't sitting on his lap.

Speaker 1 This was the first time and the last time Jessica would meet Munir.

Speaker 1 So they all meet at the Santa Monica airport, and very quickly, Jessica starts to question, is she seeing red flags here? For example, Jessica says that Munir had told Juliana that he was

Speaker 1 28 years old.

Speaker 6 I just knew he was not 28 when I saw him. Or he was a really ugly 28.
And you can put that on the record. And that's when I started to be like, this guy's a little creepy.

Speaker 1 There's a photo from this trip on the private plane. There's Juliana and her friends in the foreground.
They're smiling, out of focus, holding up their glasses for a cheers.

Speaker 1 Munir sits behind them, disengaged. He's looking away, talking into his cell phone with a very serious expression on his face.

Speaker 6 Juliana had found out

Speaker 6 that Munir was not the age he had claimed.

Speaker 1 Just before this birthday trip, like in the hours before this birthday trip, Juliana got a call. Someone had been digging on her behalf.
And Munir, she learned, was not who he said he was.

Speaker 6 That he had a wife

Speaker 6 and that

Speaker 6 earrings he had given her were actually fake.

Speaker 6 So she was really upset.

Speaker 6 But it was still her 21st birthday at midnight. And she

Speaker 6 wanted to still go to Vegas.

Speaker 6 So...

Speaker 6 Me being the party pooper that I am sometimes, I said, let's not go with him to Vegas. Let's do our own trip.

Speaker 6 But the time she didn't want to cancel her birthday, we had another friend meeting us already who was en route. And so she wanted to still go on with

Speaker 6 the birthday. And I'm like, are you sure you want to do this? And she's like, it's going to be fine.
You know, like, and we weren't again, like, I've never met the guy. I'm not thinking twice.

Speaker 6 I'm just like, I want to make sure she's happy. She's just mad, though.
You can tell she was like, she was hurt.

Speaker 1 But this wasn't just a trip to Vegas. It was a trip to Vegas.

Speaker 6 So we got off the flight. He had a limo waiting for us.
And we took the limo to, I think it was the Wynn Hotel. It was a nice hotel.

Speaker 6 He had like three, it was like this giant suite where there was like a huge living room. And then we had our own rooms.

Speaker 6 And again, if they were in a relationship, I don't know why she wasn't staying in a room with him because she was staying with us because this place was huge.

Speaker 6 We changed, we had some cocktails, and we went downstairs to dinner.

Speaker 1 But Juliana couldn't just get over it.

Speaker 6 After dinner, when we went upstairs, she started to argue with Munir and she was just really upset. And he was not yelling at her.
Looking back, he was like eerily calm in a weird way.

Speaker 6 Like it wasn't like a normal response to a person who is that distraught. It was like a little too calm, a little too put together.

Speaker 6 And so Juliana comes and she's not a person, like I really can't, right? This is probably one of the only times I've ever seen her cry like this ever.

Speaker 6 And again, it's because it's like it's her 21st birthday at midnight and i think you know you have all these big expectations and so i think she was really excited for this trip and i think she was excited to you know have fun

Speaker 6 and so she comes into the room and she grabs her suitcase and she's she's just like we're leaving so she like storms out with her suitcase and so us girls grab our suitcases and he's like tell her all the like i want to make sure it's supposed to be her birthday i'll do anything like let her know like not any like i'll like fix it let me know how i can fix it like we all grab our suitcases and we're like don't worry we'll be right back and we go like with our suitcases, we're running after Juliana.

Speaker 6 And obviously, we never came back.

Speaker 1 But that was not the end of things.

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Speaker 1 This is episode 2: Mystery Woman.

Speaker 1 So, detectives investigating Juliana's murder are also wondering, who is this guy, Munir Ueda? Here's what we know: Munir is from Lebanon, in the Middle East. He went to school there.

Speaker 1 He graduated both undergrad and medical school from the American University of Beirut. I found one of his old resumes, and it says he finished undergrad in 1987.

Speaker 1 So, you figure he was 22-ish around then? That would mean he was born in 1965.

Speaker 1 So if I get my math right, he would have been 40, 41, 42 on the day of that photo on the private jet. That's not 28.

Speaker 1 In the early 90s, he came to the U.S. He did his medical residencies on the East Coast and also went to the Wharton School at U Penn to get his MBA.

Speaker 1 So he's ambitious, and by the mid-2000s, he's established himself in California with a portfolio of very successful medical businesses. He's not just a doctor, but also an entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 Friends tell the police about this trip to Vegas and what happened next. After leaving Munier, Juliana and her friends ran around the strip with their suitcases and finally ended up at the Rio.

Speaker 1 Not their first choice.

Speaker 6 We went from Don Perryam

Speaker 6 and Caviar to the Rio Buffet in less than 12 hours.

Speaker 1 Juliana woke up early, got on a southwest flight back home.

Speaker 6 She wanted to get back because she wanted to move out. Even that early in the morning, Munir had already had the car confiscated.

Speaker 6 And so she didn't have her car.

Speaker 6 And she was like locked out of her house.

Speaker 6 She only found her one dog, Gigi. Her dog, Baron, we've never found.
It's very shady.

Speaker 1 Over the next few months, Juliana would have to find a new place to live. She went back to her old job, working at the Venice restaurant.
She went back to driving her own car.

Speaker 1 She did talk to Munir.

Speaker 1 She did somehow get some of her clothes back, but she never found Baron, her other dog.

Speaker 6 The thing that's really screwed up is the dog situation, and that's what kind of all threw us off. Why is her dog gone?

Speaker 6 Supposedly that someone let him out, but he like never appeared in any shelters. And this is like Beverly Hills.
So it almost makes you wonder in hindsight, like, if he did something to the dog.

Speaker 6 You know, it's funny. It's like none of us took things as seriously as we do now.
Again, age, experience. So I think at the time, when I look back, there was no immediate danger.

Speaker 6 It was more, ew, like he's older. Ew, he's a liar.
Like, ew, no. So it wasn't really talked about in like a, you need to get away from him.
He's this and that.

Speaker 6 It was more like he's like, he sucks because he like took your car.

Speaker 6 So she went and got the diamonds tested and they were actually real. So that started to kind of make the story that she had been told maybe seem not true and the facts not be true.

Speaker 6 And I think like, well, he explained the marriage because they were divorced. And so it wasn't relevant, I think, or something, as I remember.
It was like he explained his way out of said accusations.

Speaker 6 Again, the diamonds then supposedly being real really kind of made that. Right.

Speaker 1 That was like concrete evidence. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, exactly. So then she was like, okay, maybe I overreacted.

Speaker 6 Oh, I saw her again back to Vegas in January because we're insane.

Speaker 1 Since the birthday trip to Vegas was a flop, Juliana and her friends decided they needed a redo. This time, without Munir.

Speaker 6 So that was a funny joke. We're like, we're going to complete a trip to Vegas.
It is going to be a good trip to Vegas.

Speaker 6 Because we cannot let Vegas not be fun.

Speaker 6 Actually, one of my favorite memories, it was so cute. This is like one of the last times, this was the last time I saw her.
And

Speaker 6 so again, we're in all those big suites and we have our own, and she and I are sharing a room and we have our own queen-size, comfy beds. And we're in bed after going out.

Speaker 6 And she gets in bed with me and she snuggles up next to me. I'm like, what are you doing? You have your own bed over there.
She's like, but Jesse, I love you.

Speaker 1 I want to be near you. I'm like, oh my God.

Speaker 6 Scoot over a little bit then. And like, we were just like cracking up then and like telling stories.
And just, I just remember just dying laughing for hours and then passing out.

Speaker 6 And it was just, it's funny you take for granted those little moments in the moment. Cause that was one of the last times.

Speaker 6 Oh, it makes me sad. It's one of the last times I saw her.

Speaker 6 It was just so cute and she's like, Jesse, I love you.

Speaker 4 It's just sad.

Speaker 6 Just feel like we take for granted so much sometimes.

Speaker 1 After Juliana was murdered, the police lab started coming back with results.

Speaker 1 And all that meticulous work the detectives had done in the apartment paid off because it turned out there was a lot of DNA all over Juliana's apartment, and a lot of it did not belong to her.

Speaker 1 One sequence of DNA stood out. Police found it on Juliana's front door.
They found it on the stove knob used to turn on the gas. They found it on the front and back of Juliana's t-shirt.

Speaker 1 And they found it on Juliana's neck.

Speaker 1 And all that DNA belonged to one person.

Speaker 1 They ran the sequence through law enforcement databases, and

Speaker 1 nothing.

Speaker 1 But they could tell one thing, and that thing shocked everyone.

Speaker 1 The DNA, assumed to be the killers, belonged to a woman.

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Speaker 3 I'm Jack Leonard. For 27 years, I worked at the Los Angeles Times.

Speaker 3 For about six years, I was the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts reporter.

Speaker 1 When Juliana was murdered, Jack Leonard heard the news from his colleagues, but didn't give it much thought.

Speaker 3 So, Juliana Redding, nobody had heard of Juliana Redding when she was killed. I mean, no one but her family and her friends.

Speaker 1 But the more he learned, the more interested he became.

Speaker 3 You had a young, aspiring model, aspiring actress who comes to Santa Monica to make her fortune and become famous. It was just a classic go-west type of story, and I think that was intriguing.

Speaker 1 He remembers the early days, the different theories around the crime. You know, you always suspect the boyfriend, husband, or partner, whether it's John Gilmore or Munir Ueda.

Speaker 1 So the twist made it even more intriguing.

Speaker 3 Most of the cases that I I covered, it was pretty clear who did it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 3 it was a real whodone.

Speaker 3 They find this mysterious DNA on the clothing that Juliana Redding is wearing, on her cell phone, which she has used to try and make a 911 call, or someone has tried to make a 911 call with it, on the stove knob.

Speaker 3 on the inside door, and there's no sign of a break-in,

Speaker 3 and on her throat most importantly

Speaker 3 and so for months police are trying to work out who this DNA belongs to

Speaker 1 eventually they start looking at other employees at the various places Juliana worked including employees at the various companies owned by Munir Ueda And they start checking friends, people who knew Juliana Redding.

Speaker 1 Not everyone gives their DNA willingly, so they got samples from wine glasses, cigarettes, straws, towels. In the end, they gather 42 DNA samples.

Speaker 3 I think they went through more than 40 women before they finally set upon one person.

Speaker 1 How long does it take? Almost two years.

Speaker 1 And that's when they find someone who looks intriguing.

Speaker 1 Possible.

Speaker 3 And that was Kelly Supark.

Speaker 1 It gets a little cloak and dagger. A Santa Monica detective named Karen Thompson starts tailing this 44-year-old Korean-American woman who held a sort of nebulous role in Ueda's organization.

Speaker 3 They're following her around and she drops a cigarette butt.

Speaker 1 Notes to would-be suspects in crimes, don't smoke. It's bad for you.

Speaker 3 They pick it up, they analyze it, and it matches the DNA that was in Juliana Redding's apartment.

Speaker 1 It matches the DNA on the door, it matches the DNA on the cell phone, and it matches the DNA on Juliana Redding's neck.

Speaker 3 They firm up her as a suspect.

Speaker 1 Detectives dig into her work with Munir.

Speaker 1 Next, they get a search warrant to obtain Kelly Supark's fingerprints. Homicide detective Michael Bambrick tracks Kelly to a parking lot in Camarillo, California.
He recorded the interaction.

Speaker 9 Search warrant.

Speaker 9 We're investigating the murder that occurred in Santa Monica.

Speaker 9 What? 2008. Well, who?

Speaker 9 We're investigating the murder by Juliana Redding.

Speaker 9 And during the investigation, your name came up.

Speaker 9 So, my partner, Detective Thompson, got a search warrant. So, I'm dying, Judge, to take your fingerprints.
Okay, you're not under arrest. All right, I know it's a little starling.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 9 You're not under arrest. We're just here to take your fingerprints and send you on your way.
I don't even know this person. Who knows this person?

Speaker 9 Wait a minute, guys.

Speaker 9 I want to call my

Speaker 1 Oh my god. Kelly refuses to give them her fingerprints.
She says she wants to call a lawyer. But Officer Bambrick says.

Speaker 9 You have two choices. Either submit to the search warrant.
No. It's a court order signed by a judge, or I will arrest you.
Listen to me. Or I have to arrest you for not complying with a court order.

Speaker 9 Okay?

Speaker 1 But Kelly does not comply.

Speaker 9 You're now in custody. Okay?

Speaker 9 Okay, I'm just going to put your hands behind your back and put you in. Hey, come on.

Speaker 9 You're now under arrest.

Speaker 9 You're violating the court order.

Speaker 9 I explained to you.

Speaker 9 I explained to you.

Speaker 9 I would drive all the way out here for a joke.

Speaker 1 This was June 2010, more than two years after Juliana's murder. At the station, they...
Fingerprint Kelly Park. They compare those prints to what they found in Juliana's apartment.
There's one match.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I remember her brother called me and told me

Speaker 6 that they arrested somebody and it was a woman. And I was like, what? And I was like, what's her name?

Speaker 1 When Juliana's friends and family heard that a woman named Kelly Sue Park was arrested for Juliana's murder, they were, well, they were shocked. Who?

Speaker 1 This is Juliana's childhood friend, Jessica.

Speaker 6 And then he gave me her name and I was like, who the hell?

Speaker 1 Who the hell is that?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I was like, I have no, I never heard of her.

Speaker 6 So I think initially the onset was,

Speaker 6 was this

Speaker 6 some like jealous girl who was jealous of her?

Speaker 10 I had never heard her name out of Juliana's mouth.

Speaker 1 Alana Hadid.

Speaker 10 Or anyone else's mouth before that day.

Speaker 6 I was shocked. I was,

Speaker 6 yeah, I was really shocked.

Speaker 1 This was not what anyone expected.

Speaker 6 As a society, you don't think of like woman-on-woman crime like that initially. You think angry lover at first or crazy homeless person or something like that.

Speaker 1 And it left them all questioning.

Speaker 1 Yes, Kelly Sue Park worked for Munir Ueda, but where was Munir Ueda?

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Speaker 1 Kalesu Park was charged with the murder of Juliana Redding. Dr.
Munir Ueda fled the country.

Speaker 11 Dr. Ueda smelled it.
I don't know how, but he figured it out and he fled back to Lebanon and evaded arrest.

Speaker 1 This is Lance Lamont. She's a journalist and runs the website adjustercom.net.
Her regular beat is fraud in the insurance industry.

Speaker 1 But someone tipped her off to a certain doctor whose name had come up in a very different context.

Speaker 11 I thought, this is pretty wild.

Speaker 11 It's pretty wild for a treating doctor of workers' compensation cases to be a person of interest in a murder case and then flee the country. That's pretty suspicious.
That sounds like mafia stuff.

Speaker 11 It sounds like crime.

Speaker 11 It surprised me and...

Speaker 11 shocked me.

Speaker 4 So Larry Kennedy wrote this article. I edited it.
Basically, it was just a matter of fact. This is what happened.
His driver drove him to Mexico. He got on a flight from Mexico.
He flew to Lebanon.

Speaker 4 That's where he is now.

Speaker 1 Lebanon does not have an extradition agreement with the United States. So, effectively, anyone there is out of reach of the American criminal justice system.

Speaker 1 Kelly Sioux Park seemed to be on her own.

Speaker 4 Kelly Sioux Park Park began appearing in court.

Speaker 1 But in court, prosecutors allege that Kelly Sue Park was not on her own. During pretrial hearings, prosecutors say she was paid $250,000 by Munir Ueda just three weeks before Juliana was killed.

Speaker 1 And Park's family received another payment, they say, of $113,400 in the days just before her arrest. And there was another detail that became public.

Speaker 4 The prosecution argued that Kelly Supark didn't know Juliana Redding.

Speaker 4 She showed up at her door because she wanted to talk her into argue with her to convince her father to be a pharmacist for Munir Uedis.

Speaker 1 Juliana's father, Greg Redding, is a pharmacist in Arizona.

Speaker 1 And exhibits eventually filed in court showed that for several months before Juliana's murder, Munir was courting him, trying to get him to move to California and work for him.

Speaker 1 According to media reports at the time, Munir was offering Greg a salary of $400,000 a year.

Speaker 1 The court filings we obtained for this podcast include a series of letters around the potential employment of Greg Redding at a company called Golden State Pharmaceuticals, which, prosecutors said, was controlled by Munir.

Speaker 1 Golden State Pharma wanted to hire Greg as a lead pharmacist to oversee the mixing and manufacturing of medicine.

Speaker 1 Shortly before Juliana's death, Greg's lawyers got a letter from Golden State Pharma saying the employment proposal had been withdrawn.

Speaker 1 Greg's lawyers responded with, Well, our client wasn't planning on taking the job anyway because Golden State Pharma doesn't seem to be on quote-unquote solid legal footing.

Speaker 1 Five days later, Juliana was dead.

Speaker 1 One theory presented during the trial was that...

Speaker 4 Ueda and Kelly Sue Park wanted Greg Redding in the worst way. So when Greg Redding turned them down,

Speaker 4 they got angry. And Kelly Sue Park went over to Juliana Redding's house, her bungalow in Santa Monica, in order to bully her

Speaker 4 into

Speaker 4 talking her father into working for Dr. Yueada.

Speaker 1 We tried to reach Greg Redding for this podcast, but never heard back. Lance has a theory on what happened.

Speaker 4 This is my imagination speaking now.

Speaker 4 That's why Kelly Supark went to the bungalow in order to talk her into it.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 narcissistic rage took over. There's nothing more than certain narcissistic people want than money.

Speaker 11 Money, money, money.

Speaker 1 In pretrial hearings, prosecutors said that Kelly worked for Munir as a kind of debt collector and enforcer, that she used intimidation to forward Munir's business interests.

Speaker 1 And that's what she was doing when she went to Juliana's Santa Monica bungalow. They say Munir called her his quote-unquote female James Bond.

Speaker 1 You see that in the press stories all over the place, female James Bond. The defense denied these claims.

Speaker 11 The judge said that she could not receive any bail from Dr. Yaweda.

Speaker 11 Her bail had to come from a different source. It It couldn't be from someone who was complicit in the case.
The bail was $1 million

Speaker 11 to start, and then I believe it went up to $3 million.

Speaker 11 She got the money eventually through

Speaker 11 her mother, through relatives, through connections in Korea.

Speaker 11 They couldn't connect. these people to Dr.
Ueda, but many were suspected of having some connection. But it couldn't be proven.

Speaker 11 The judge couldn't come up with any solid evidence that they were connected to Ueda.

Speaker 1 So after a few months in custody, Kelly Supark was out on bail of $3.5 million.

Speaker 1 It took almost three years from Kelly's arrest for trial to start in May 2013.

Speaker 1 By this point, the case was big news on local TV.

Speaker 12 The jury will likely be seated today in the case of a woman dubbed the female James Bond.

Speaker 12 Tall and strikingly good looking, her name is Kelly Sue Park, and she's on trial for the murder of 21-year-old Juliana Redding, an aspiring model and actress seen in this movie.

Speaker 10 Her family and friends and myself would always meet at the church right near the courthouse before the trial, and we would say a prayer for Juliana and for justice and then walk over to the trial.

Speaker 1 Juliana's friend, Alana Hadid, attended almost every day of the trial.

Speaker 10 We were always praying for her. She was very religious and loved God and loved church.
And it was really important part of her life.

Speaker 10 And so it was something we wanted to do while her story was being told.

Speaker 3 There were two really important decisions before the trial that the judge made.

Speaker 1 One

Speaker 3 really hurt the prosecution.

Speaker 1 This is former LA Times journalist Jack Leonard again.

Speaker 3 The prosecution's case was built on the idea that Kelly Sue Park was the muscle. She was the enforcer for Dr.
Ueda.

Speaker 3 The judge said that there really wasn't any evidence that Kelly Sue Park had been committing the kind of crime,

Speaker 3 was inflicting the kind of violence that the prosecution was saying she had inflicted on Juliana Redding. So the judge said, nope, you can't use that argument.

Speaker 3 I'm not going to allow you to argue that Kelly Sue Park was an enforcer for Dr. Ueda.

Speaker 3 That really hurt the prosecution because the prosecution's whole case revolved around this shadow that wasn't in the court, Dr. Ueda.

Speaker 3 And without being able to really say why Kelly Sue Park would have been operating for Dr. Ueda,

Speaker 3 there was a big hole in their case.

Speaker 1 The other decision the judge made was against the defense.

Speaker 3 The defense wanted to argue that the boyfriend may well have committed the murder, but the judge wouldn't allow that.

Speaker 1 Sitting through the trial, Alana says she could feel Munir's presence looming over everything.

Speaker 10 The fact that he was hardly spoken about at trial was really hard for everyone.

Speaker 3 The funny thing is they continued on with their case. I mean, I don't know what else they were going to do because that was what they believed went down.

Speaker 3 They can say that she worked for Ueda, but why on earth would a businesswoman go in and murder an aspiring model who happened to date her boss a year earlier?

Speaker 3 It effectively short-circuited the motive conversation.

Speaker 1 But the prosecution did not seem flustered. Alan Jackson was one of the prosecutors on the case.
He appeared more than confident when speaking to CBS News.

Speaker 13 I can tell you in 18 years of prosecuting cases, I've never had this much DNA. The DNA was on the door lock.
DNA on a plate in the sink.

Speaker 13 DNA on that stove knob, which you'd expect because someone turned it on. DNA on the front and the back of Juliana's t-shirt.
And possibly most importantly, DNA on her throat.

Speaker 1 And don't forget the drop of blood.

Speaker 13 And guess where the blood was found? In In a fingerprint, on a plate, in the sink.

Speaker 13 And the fingerprint was Kelly Sue Park's left thumb.

Speaker 1 We reached out to the two prosecutors on this case, Alan Jackson and Stacey O'Kunweis, as well as to George Bueller, who led the defense. Alan Jackson never returned our many calls and messages.

Speaker 1 Stacey O'Kunweiss and George Bueller declined to be interviewed.

Speaker 1 The defense, for its part, played it it kind of low-key. They paid for an expensive jury consultant, and Juliana's friends say, carefully managed Kelly's appearance to that jury.

Speaker 10 The way in which Kelly Supark was characterized, I think, was really hard

Speaker 10 because she

Speaker 10 wasn't made out to be the person who she actually was, which was like an enforcer.

Speaker 10 And she sat in the court wearing sweater sets and acting like she was completely confused.

Speaker 1 When the DNA evidence came up, lead defense attorney George Beeler didn't dispute it.

Speaker 1 Instead, he spent his time casting doubt on the DA's arguments about motive, on Juliana's lifestyle, even on the phone records. They also cast doubt on Kelly Sue Park.

Speaker 1 According to Alana, Kelly presented in court as a kind of confused deer in the headlights.

Speaker 1 How could she possibly have the strength to strangle Juliana, despite having three inches and 40 pounds on her?

Speaker 1 After the prosecution rested, the defense called just a handful of witnesses, a few friends, and then, oddly, a woman whose testimony was that she'd seen Juliana at Mounir's Beverly Hills home, and that she'd seen Kelly Sue Park there too, potentially on the same day.

Speaker 1 Then, closing arguments. And that's when things got weird.

Speaker 1 The prosecution closed its case, arguing the DNA, the fingerprint, everything pointed to Kelly Sup Park.

Speaker 1 And the defense said, essentially, yeah,

Speaker 1 that's true.

Speaker 1 But...

Speaker 3 So George got there and he said there's a perfect explanation for why there could be DNA on all the most pivotal parts of the crime scene.

Speaker 3 And that is that the killer, whoever he is, had taken a rag from Juliana's house and had tried to wipe down all the things that they had touched. Well, Juliana had lived with Dr.

Speaker 3 Ueda for a little while, a few months earlier.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 3 George said that maybe when she left, she took a towel or a rag with her. And Kelly Sue Park worked for Dr.
Ueda and had been in his house. And she may well have touched that rag.

Speaker 3 And so some of her DNA might have transferred to that rag. And then when the killer used that rag from Juliana's house,

Speaker 3 Kelly Sue Park's DNA could have been then transferred to the crime scene. And that's how you end up with

Speaker 1 all the

Speaker 3 most

Speaker 5 important

Speaker 3 areas of that crime scene.

Speaker 1 CBS News captured the closing argument.

Speaker 14 You have a killer.

Speaker 14 who's got a rag. He's going around.
He's wiping the places to get rid of his fingerprints, his DNA, and he's got Mrs. Park's DNA, unbeknownst to him, but to his great benefit, on that rag.

Speaker 1 It was an idea that had been barely talked about in trial, certainly not interrogated. It seemed, here's Lonce Lamont.

Speaker 4 George Bueller made outrageous arguments that were

Speaker 4 such BS and so much malarkey and baloney that it just shocked me.

Speaker 4 He was bombastic. I'm going to say he pushed the envelope with some of his arguments that were total bullshit arguments.
There's no other way I can say it. A lot of BS.

Speaker 4 And he clearly captivated the jury.

Speaker 4 George Bueller is one of the superstar defense attorneys, criminal defense attorneys.

Speaker 3 It was a very surprising argument. I was not expecting it.
I had not seen an argument like that ever made before.

Speaker 1 Jury deliberations lasted a week. And on June 4, 2013, five years after Juliana's murder, the jury came back to the courtroom.

Speaker 1 There were two charges, both first degree and second degree murder.

Speaker 4 And when both of them were read, I was shocked out of my my very skin. I was shocked.

Speaker 1 Not guilty.

Speaker 3 Not guilty.

Speaker 4 It was mayhem.

Speaker 4 It really was.

Speaker 1 The courtroom erupted.

Speaker 4 Bitch, there's something wrong here. Go to hell, whore.

Speaker 4 These things were yelled by Juliana's friends in the courtroom. right after the verdict was read.
Go to hell, whore. I have that memorized.
I'll be dead before I forget that.

Speaker 4 And bitch was screamed and

Speaker 4 you murdered her.

Speaker 4 Someone yelled, murderer.

Speaker 4 It was really scary in that courtroom.

Speaker 4 George Bueller walked out of the courtroom door like he was on a pogo stick. He'd really done it.
He had gotten a not guilty verdict for his client.

Speaker 4 And I walked out right behind Patricia Redding.

Speaker 4 And she looked at George Bueller, who was standing in front of the elevator. I believe he had pushed the button.
He was waiting for the elevator doors to open.

Speaker 4 And right when the elevator doors opened, Patricia Redding yelled at him, how would you feel if your daughter was murdered?

Speaker 4 That's exactly what Patricia said.

Speaker 4 How would you feel if your daughter was murdered?

Speaker 4 And George just got in the elevator and mosied on down.

Speaker 1 Alana and Jessica again.

Speaker 10 I think everyone was just in complete shock.

Speaker 10 We couldn't believe that you could find Kelly Supark's DNA evidence, blood evidence, on a broken plate in her sink, on the oven, on the door, I believe, on her neck, on Juliana's neck, and that any 12 people

Speaker 10 with any logical sense could say that that DNA evidence could come from anywhere else. But

Speaker 10 that's what happened. And it was really hard to process.

Speaker 6 I was at my house and it was actually on the news

Speaker 6 because it was such a shocking verdict. It was on even in San Diego.
They kept replaying it. It was like on the evening news and the afternoon news.
My regret re-watching it. just like, this is

Speaker 6 crazy.

Speaker 1 Jack Leonard.

Speaker 3 I had never seen a case where there was DNA evidence against a suspect and that person was acquitted.

Speaker 3 I had never seen a not guilty verdict for someone with DNA left at the crime scene.

Speaker 1 But this would not be the last time Jack would hear of Kelly Sue Park.

Speaker 3 When I was an editor years later,

Speaker 3 I was working with the reporter.

Speaker 3 We'd worked out that Kelly Sue Park was in jail. And we were like, why is she back in jail?

Speaker 1 Because cops still wanted to talk to Kelly Superk and Munir Ueda.

Speaker 1 Next time, on doctor's orders.

Speaker 15 So I'm telling him it really, really hurts. And so he says, just be strong, just be strong, hang on, just hang on.

Speaker 11 And then he keeps pulling and pulling.

Speaker 15 And I'm starting to scream.

Speaker 16 And I asked to see the doctor to see if what, you know, do I need to be checked out or anything? And they said, oh, you're fine.

Speaker 6 You're fine. And I said, okay.

Speaker 16 Just let, just get me the hell out of here.

Speaker 15 And then I just started screaming, you idiots, what the hell did you do to me? You fucking idiots.

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Speaker 1 Dirty and scummy.

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Speaker 17 It was the spring of 1988, northwestern Alabama. A preacher commits a sin, a deeply personal transgression.
And from there, everything spirals out of control. The amount of damage this man did is

Speaker 5 incalculable.

Speaker 1 It's still damaging all of us. It still hurts us to think about it.

Speaker 17 From Revisionist History, this is the Alabama Murders. Listen to Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders, Anyway You Get podcasts.