In February of 1979, the news that three young employees of the PayLess store in San Mateo, California had been murdered shocked California and the country. For the next twenty-five years the case went unsolved and became the longest old-cold triple homicide in California. Police chief John Stangl, who had been a young detective on the case, felt that a book on the murders might shake loose a witn
ess or a new lead, and he and other detectives who had worked the PayLess case twenty years earlier agreed to be interviewed by California writer John Christgau for a book on the murders. In 1999, Christgau began what would eventually total over a hundred interviews with detectives, lawyers, PayLess employees, and friends and families of the victims. This podcast is the story of the murders, told in the voices and words of those who lived the story. This podcast is a combination of re-enactments and authentic previously unreleased tapes, sampled from original interviews with detectives, victims’ families, and others involved in the case.
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