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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Friday night, Central California volition larn caller details astir a transgression spree that haunted the Valley for years.
"Debbie Dorian, who was killed and who acceptable disconnected this long, decades-long investigation," ABC News anchor JuJu Chang told Action News.
Chang reports from Fresno connected the 1996 execution of Debbie Dorian. She was a fewer months retired of Fresno State erstwhile her begetter recovered her dead.
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Chang goes to the erstwhile transgression country astatine Debbie's Northeast Fresno flat analyzable and to the campus.
"I went to Fresno State and walked crossed the field that was truly touched by this execution due to the fact that it went unsolved, and she was a bright, vibrant co-ed," Chang said.
On Friday, Chang volition present you to Beth.
For years, Action News has reported connected her arsenic "Jane Doe #1."
She is 1 of respective women Nickey Stane assaulted successful Visalia aft Debbie's death.
"What was that infinitesimal erstwhile she sat down with you and revealed her sanction publically for the archetypal time?" Action News asked Chang.
"There were a batch of butterflies each astir due to the fact that we ne'er privation to unit anyone to bash thing that mightiness interaction them," Chang said. "Beth was truthful courageous."
It was the DNA recovered astatine the scene of Beth's battle that connected her transgression to Debbie's murder, and aboriginal tied Stane to each of it.
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JuJu told Action News astir exclusive body-camera video that includes a speech with Stane.
"It's fascinating to spot the improvement and the spiraling of him connected camera," Chang said.
There is besides a captious jailhouse call. Action News archetypal brought you details of it 2 years agone erstwhile prosecutors played it successful court, but we were not allowed to grounds it.
On Friday, viewers volition perceive the call.
"He is talking to household members, and arsenic you know, these kinds of jailhouse telephone calls are recorded, and helium fundamentally implicates himself (by) saying words to the effect of, 'I've done atrocious things,'" Chang said.
Chang has spent respective months reporting connected this, making galore trips to Fresno. She adjacent went to the workplace of Vince Zavala.
Zavala is simply a retired researcher who cracked the lawsuit and helped nonstop Stane to prison.
"He's the benignant of feline who makes maine consciousness bully covering these stories that tin often beryllium truthful dark," Chang said of Zavala.
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