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this Foundation is where the freedley family's home once stood eight years ago Vicki freedley her boyfriend John
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Hayward and her 18-year-old daughter Becky were viciously murdered here in pinion Pines Vicky and John were found
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shot inside the home which was set on fire Becky was found here outside the home her body still burning in a
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wheelbarrow when firefighters arrived the case became one of the most notorious unsolved cases in the
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Coachella Valley there's been all sorts of speculation as to why you went cold but one of the things that we do know is
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that a fire seriously compromises any crime scene for a crime that's brutal few Clues were left behind the fire
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destroyed the possibility of finding any hairs and fingerprints the only real forensic evidence that investigators
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found at the scene was a business card near where the wheelbarrow had originated from that had DNA that DNA
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was linked to Christian Smith later arrested for the crime along with the friend Robert Pape who once dated Becky
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freedley whether that physical evidence and a list of circumstantial evidence would have been enough to convict Smith
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and Pape is unknown because charges against both men were dropped before the case even went to trial