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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- ABC News anchor JuJu Chang has reported connected existent transgression crossed the state for 20/20. Now, the show's latest episode, airing Friday, brings Chang to Fresno.
"All of it was this saga that took aggregate trips to study out," Chang told Action News connected Thursday.
She is pulling backmost the curtain connected a transgression that rocked the Valley. Debbie Dorian was 22 and a caller Fresno State postgraduate erstwhile her begetter recovered her dormant successful 1996.
The transgression led investigators connected a decades-long chase.
"We spoke to your DA, Lisa Smittcamp, and talked astir however she was capable to prime up the shot aft the acold lawsuit and bring this to ... justice, to extremity up having the murderer enactment down bars," Chang said.
Now, 29 years aft the probe began successful Debbie's northeast Fresno apartment, Chang volition instrumentality viewers to the transgression scene.
"This is the quality of existent crime, but it often happens successful mundane places, right?" Chang said. "It happened successful a tiny flat analyzable successful Fresno. When you spell there, it's benignant of nondescript..."
JuJu and her squad besides traveled to the South Valley, visiting the thoroughfare corners of 4 intersexual assaults.
"Another is assaulted here, portion waiting for a bus," Chang says successful the 20/20 occurrence airing Friday.
The assaults successful Visalia played a captious relation successful catching Nickey Stane successful 2019 and tying him to Debbie's 1996 death.
"Visalia, which was benignant of the skeleton cardinal that unlocked the investigation," Chang said. "There was a case-to-case familial match, and that was however they were capable to support the probe hot, adjacent aft the execution had gone acold successful immoderate ways."
"When you were present successful Fresno, did you person immoderate experiences, immoderate interactions with folks wherever you could truly archer the gravity of this crime?" Action News asked.
"I mean, you know, the astir harrowing subsister is Jane Doe #1," Chang said.
That subsister sat down with JuJu, yet revealing her sanction and showing her look for the archetypal time.
Viewers volition perceive from her connected Friday.
"She talked astir the decades of interaction this intersexual battle had connected her," Chang said. "She was similar this young up-and-coming assemblage freshman. She had the full world, you know, arsenic her oyster, her full beingness successful beforehand of her."
In betwixt each the interviews, Chang had clip to halt by Action News. We person covered the lawsuit intimately from the crimes decades agone to Stane's condemnation earlier this year.
"I cognize we partnered connected this one, and you guys were great," Chang said astir Action News. "It was truly beauteous to bent retired with you and spot you successful your presumption successful Fresno."
Chang spoke astir her newfound transportation to the Valley and the survivor.
"This condemnation was an incredibly healing infinitesimal for her. She has a job. She has a child," Chang said. "She's doing truly well, and I could not beryllium much arrogant of her."
"I'm Going to Get You" airs Friday nighttime astatine 9 PM connected ABC30 and streams the adjacent time connected Disney+ and Hulu.
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