She was seventeen years old, competing in her very first beauty pageant, and she was there alone. Her dad called her his girl. Her car's number plate read TOMISH — To Michelle — with the tag line 'Daddy's Girl.' She had told her mum she was going to be President by the time she was thirty-five. She will forever be seventeen.

Michelle Korfman left that Las Vegas shopping mall on a Sunday afternoon in March 1984 with a man who told her she had a big future in modelling. But he wasn't a fashion photographer, he was a serial killer who had been preying on America's most beautiful women for two decades.

Michelle's family spent a small fortune searching for her — helicopters, search parties, 25,000 posters. They never stopped looking.

She was found forty days later but spent another month in the morgue, listed as Jane Doe #39, before dental records finally gave her back her name.

This is Michelle's story, this is her voice - not the killers. Because she was a piano player, a photographer, a daughter, and a dreamer — and she deserves to be remembered as exactly that.

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Credits:

Hosts

Andy Byrne 

Mark Llewellyn

Audio Production

Sam Blacker - The Podcast Butler

Resources

The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne - courtesy of Penguin Random House

Thanks to Pro Podcast Studios, Sydney

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