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July 27, 2020,

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Diana Davis, a 50-year-old certified nursing

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assistant, disappeared from the

0:46

Seattle-Tacoma, Washington area. Two

0:48

days later, her car was discovered on

0:50

fire in a downtown Tacoma alley. Then,

0:53

on August 5th, Diana's

0:55

body was found more than an hour east

0:57

of Tacoma in a wooded area. It's

1:00

been over three years since Diana was killed, and

1:03

investigators are still searching for the person

1:05

responsible. Hey

1:36

everyone, welcome back to Detective Perspective. My

1:38

name is Derek Lavassar. I'm a licensed

1:40

private investigator and former police detective, and

1:43

each week I'll be covering an unsolved case

1:45

and story format. I'll then give

1:47

you my perspective on the investigation

1:49

and provide contact information for the

1:51

individuals and organizations connected to the

1:53

case so that if you have any

1:55

tips you can contact them directly and maybe you can

1:58

help solve the case. who's

2:00

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2:02

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2:04

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Podcasts or Spotify or whatever

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platform you use. Okay, so this

2:15

case this week, Diana Davis, this

2:18

is a relatively new case, and

2:20

we've been doing older cases leading

2:23

up to this, which I feel like need the coverage.

2:26

And this is a case to me that stood out

2:28

because, as I said, it's relatively

2:30

new. And you would

2:32

think as you hear the specifics of how this

2:34

case went down, I kind of went over a

2:36

little bit of it in the teaser, her

2:38

car being discovered on fire, her body

2:40

being found at a different location. And

2:43

then as far as her history, her

2:46

dating practices, you

2:48

would think that this case would already be solved. You

2:50

would think that with today's technology and

2:53

the ability to trace GPS coordinates

2:55

and see who she was

2:57

talking to on specific dating sites, all that

2:59

good stuff, that this case would be solved.

3:02

But we're covering it here, so obviously

3:04

it isn't. So knowing the specifics

3:07

of this case and

3:09

feeling like it should be solved, I

3:11

wanted to put it out there to you guys.

3:13

I feel like maybe there's someone out there who's

3:16

listening or watching this who may have information or

3:18

may live in the area

3:20

and have access to a personal security

3:22

system camera that police haven't checked yet.

3:24

Maybe there's something on that footage that

3:26

may be helpful. Now it is three

3:29

years later, so if you don't have

3:31

a huge storage device, the

3:34

video footage might be gone. However, there may

3:36

be something you remember from that time after

3:38

I jog your memory. So I wanted to

3:40

cover this case. The whole goal of

3:43

what we do here is to give

3:45

a voice to the voiceless and to give some

3:47

exposure to a case that, in

3:49

my opinion, hasn't gotten enough or a case

3:51

where I feel like maybe there's something we can do. Diana

3:55

did have two children, Chris and

3:57

Christina. They're still out there. They're

3:59

still searching for answers. So as long as they are we

4:01

will as well. So we're gonna dive

4:03

right into it But before we do real

4:06

quick just a little bit of a qualifier here if you

4:09

Haven't put it together already Apologies

4:11

for last week. I was very

4:13

sick and I'm still Kind

4:16

of recovering from it. I feel fine, but

4:18

I don't sound great I'm still a little

4:21

tired and my voice is just way far

4:23

behind I'm still very congested and a

4:26

little raspy So I wanted

4:28

to apologize ahead of time if at points

4:30

during this episode It's not

4:32

as clear or as crisp as it

4:35

usually is I'm going

4:37

to do my best and fortunately This

4:39

isn't live and I have a great

4:41

editor and Shannon So if I

4:43

got to do multiple takes which I normally

4:45

do have to do I will

4:47

do them here to try to give you the best Episode

4:50

that I can so again apologies bear with

4:52

me. But with that all out of the

4:55

way, let's dive into the case Diana

4:58

Davis was born on June 25th 1970

5:01

in Korea when she was young her

5:04

family moved to Eastern, Washington After

5:06

graduating from high school Diana went to college

5:09

in Western, Washington Where she

5:11

was known to be a free-spirited spunky

5:13

person with a positive personality Following

5:16

her college years Diana started working

5:18

as a certified nursing assistant and

5:21

caretaker She settled

5:23

in the Auburn area situated between Seattle

5:25

and Tacoma and welcomed two children a

5:28

son Chris and a daughter Christina Diana

5:31

was a devoted mother who spent a lot of

5:33

time with her children Even when

5:35

they became adults she face-timed them on a

5:37

daily basis When Diana wasn't

5:40

with her family, she enjoyed hanging out

5:42

with her friends watching Netflix Intending

5:44

to her garden at Proctor Community

5:46

Garden in Tacoma by late

5:50

2019 Diana wasn't in any serious relationships,

5:52

but she had been searching for a

5:54

long-term partner for many years She

5:56

used online dating services and typically went on

5:58

one to two days a week, often

6:01

with businessmen, lawyers and pilots.

6:04

Finding a potential partner was never difficult

6:06

for Diana. Her best friend Monica

6:08

shared with KIR07 that she was the

6:10

type of person who talked to everybody.

6:13

She was very personable, likable and lovable.

6:15

When the COVID pandemic began in early 2020,

6:18

Diana took a break from dating because she was scared

6:21

of catching the virus. Then a

6:23

month or two into the pandemic, Diana

6:25

met a criminal defense attorney on match.com.

6:28

According to friends, he was persistent in going

6:30

on a date with her and she eventually

6:32

gave in, despite her concerns about COVID. Diana

6:35

and the attorney hit it off and she soon

6:37

told her friend Monica that she wanted to pursue

6:39

something with him. They started calling each

6:42

other boyfriend and girlfriend, although they had

6:44

an open relationship and could date other

6:46

people. And it's important to note

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the morning of July 27th, Diana and

7:57

her son Chris exchanged texts about her plans for the

7:59

day. which included going to her

8:01

garden. Then at 9.38 a.m.

8:03

they face time for approximately 31 minutes. According

8:07

to Unsolved Mysteries, Diana made it to

8:10

the community garden by that afternoon where

8:12

multiple witnesses had seen her. She

8:15

spent time tending to her tomato plants and

8:17

even texted her boyfriend a photo of a

8:19

tomato she had harvested promising to bring it

8:21

to dinner. He responded, quote,

8:24

sounds great. This is

8:26

her last known phone communication with anyone.

8:29

Now I wanted to bring up this interaction

8:31

with her boyfriend for two reasons. One, as

8:33

I just said, it's her

8:35

last known phone communication, but also

8:37

there's a little bit of an

8:39

interesting twist and I

8:41

don't really know exactly what to make of it, but

8:44

it involves this tomato and we're gonna get to it

8:46

in a little bit. Now Diana never

8:48

showed up for dinner that night leading her boyfriend to

8:50

call the police for a welfare check. When

8:53

officers went to her place, she wasn't there.

8:56

No one else heard from Diana that night. Her

8:58

family found this unusual, but they didn't panic.

9:01

Diana was known for always responding to messages

9:03

except when she was at work or with

9:05

someone. During those times, she

9:07

would often turn off her phone to

9:09

stay present. So the family figured she

9:12

might be with someone and that's why

9:14

she wasn't responding. The family's concern grew

9:16

on July 28th when they still couldn't

9:18

reach Diana. It was completely

9:20

unusual for her not to talk to her

9:22

kids and to disappear suddenly. On

9:25

July 29th, both Diana's family and

9:27

her boyfriend filed a missing persons

9:29

report. The police conducted another check of

9:31

her home, but Diana was nowhere to

9:33

be found. Unsolved mysteries reported

9:35

that on that same day, Diana's

9:38

family took matters into their own hands and went

9:40

to speak to someone they felt could be connected

9:42

to her disappearance, her

9:44

ex-boyfriend. She had broken up

9:46

with him because she wasn't as interested in him

9:49

as he was with her and after the breakup,

9:51

he allegedly stalked her, calling her

9:53

constantly, driving by her apartment and

9:56

showing up unannounced. Diana's brother

9:58

and his wife went to the outside.

10:00

ex-boyfriend's house, which was not far from

10:02

the community garden, and when they got there they

10:04

knocked on the door. The ex-boyfriend peered

10:06

through the window, but he refused to open.

10:09

When they insisted they wouldn't leave until he

10:11

told them where Diana was, he finally

10:13

opened the door and claimed he hadn't seen her

10:15

in two months. Diana's brother

10:18

and his wife left after this encounter. A

10:21

few hours later, at 10.54 PM,

10:23

police received a call about a burning

10:25

car in an alley in the 1600

10:27

block of Court E in downtown Tacoma.

10:30

When an officer arrived, they found a fire

10:32

consuming a silver 2013 Chevy Impala. The

10:36

owner of the car was nowhere to be found. The

10:39

license plate was gone, so the officer checked

10:41

the vent of the vehicle, which came back

10:43

registered, to Diana Davis. The

10:45

officer then called dispatch to get Diana's information

10:47

so that they could reach out to her

10:49

about the car. The dispatcher ran

10:51

Diana's name and found that she was currently

10:53

entered as a missing person, so

10:55

obviously concerns about her well-being intensified.

10:58

The car was searched and Diana's purse was found,

11:01

but her cell phone was missing. An

11:03

investigation concluded that the fire started in the

11:05

back seats and the trunk, suggesting

11:07

someone had set the car on fire

11:09

to destroy potential evidence. Unfortunately there were

11:11

no surveillance cameras in the area, so

11:14

police were unable to see who was

11:16

responsible for the fire. Diana's family

11:18

was puzzled about the car in the alley. It

11:21

wasn't close to the garden, and they didn't

11:23

think Diana would go to that area so

11:25

late in the evening. The family was heartbroken

11:27

and desperate for answers about Diana. Her

11:30

daughter Christina told a news outlet that she

11:32

really was hopeful someone with information would come

11:34

forward. She said the family missed

11:36

Diana deeply, and they just wanted to know

11:38

what was going on with her. With

11:41

Diana's car being found on fire,

11:43

her disappearance became highly suspicious. The

11:46

King County Sheriff's Office and Tacoma

11:48

Police Department joined forces to investigate

11:50

with Detective Jack Nasworthy taking the lead.

11:53

He reached out to the press, asking for

11:55

information about Diana's car and any sightings of

11:57

her between July 27th and July 4th. July

12:00

29th. While fielding tips from

12:02

the public, Detective Nazworthy focused on building a

12:05

timeline of Diana's activities from the 27th to

12:07

the 29th. He obtained

12:09

a search warrant from her phone company to

12:11

track her location. His findings revealed

12:14

that on the 27th, Diana spoke to

12:16

her son, briefly visited her

12:18

workplace, stopped by her boyfriend's house in

12:20

Tacoma to give him a house plant,

12:22

and then spent time at the community garden. Now

12:25

as I said earlier, while in the garden, Diana

12:27

took a photo of a harvested tomato and sent

12:29

it to her boyfriend stating that she would bring

12:31

it over for dinner. But here's the interesting part.

12:34

She ended up leaving the tomato in the garden. She

12:37

later drove around Tacoma in her Chevy Impala

12:39

with no one following her. According

12:41

to My Northwest, Diana made a

12:43

stop at an Ace Hardware store

12:45

in downtown Tacoma and stayed about

12:47

50 minutes from 5 p.m. to

12:49

5.50 p.m. She gave off

12:51

the impression she was just passing time and

12:54

she left without making any purchases. After

12:56

leaving the Ace Hardware store, Diana drove

12:58

north on the interstate to Seattle, ending

13:01

up at Loom & Field near Mariner Stadium at

13:03

746 p.m. Her phone's last signal

13:06

was there and then the phone turned

13:08

off immediately. Diana was

13:10

never heard from again. Now

13:13

two things here. Nazworthy did look for surveillance

13:15

footage at Loom & Field to see if

13:17

Diana met anyone there, but there were no

13:19

cameras in the parking lot. He also checked

13:21

the Ace Hardware store parking lot as well.

13:23

Again, no cameras. Now after

13:25

building Diana's timeline, Detective Nazworthy had

13:27

two potential suspects to investigate, one

13:30

of them being Diana's boyfriend, the

13:32

criminal defense attorney. He was the

13:34

last person she talked to and one

13:36

of the first people to report her

13:38

missing. Nazworthy questioned Diana's boyfriend and he

13:40

denied having any involvement in her disappearance.

13:42

He did share that he and Diana

13:44

had a serious discussion about their relationship

13:47

the night before she went missing. Diana

13:49

really wanted to get married, but

13:51

the boyfriend wasn't interested in that and he said

13:53

he preferred to keep their relationship open so that

13:55

they could date other people. While all

13:57

of this could seem suspicious on the surface, Nazworthy

14:00

was able to quickly rule out the

14:02

boyfriend of having anything to do with

14:04

Diana's disappearance. According to Unsolved Mysteries, the

14:06

boyfriend provided receipts from a grocery store

14:08

trip on the 27th, and

14:11

various witness statements confirmed his whereabouts from the 27th

14:13

to the 29th. Now,

14:16

if that all wasn't enough, Nazworthy also obtained

14:18

a search warrant for the boyfriend's phone. The

14:21

location data showed that he was either at

14:23

his home or at his Tacoma office during

14:25

all relevant times. He was never

14:27

near Diana's home, the community garden, or

14:29

downtown Tacoma where the burned car was

14:32

found. The boyfriend

14:34

also passed the polygraph test where

14:36

he denied any involvement in her

14:38

disappearance. With Diana's boyfriend

14:40

basically ruled out, Detective Nazworthy

14:42

had another suspect to investigate,

14:44

Diana's ex-boyfriend, the one who allegedly

14:47

stalked her before she went missing, and

14:49

the one that Diana's brother went and visited

14:52

after she disappeared. According

14:54

to Unsolved Mysteries, Nazworthy tried to get

14:56

a statement from the ex-boyfriend at his

14:58

home, but he refused to talk to police.

15:00

Fortunately, a neighbor across the street had

15:02

a security camera that captured the movement

15:05

in front of the ex-boyfriend's house. Nazworthy

15:07

also got a search warrant for the

15:09

ex-boyfriend's phone records and realized that he

15:11

was nowhere near Diana on the 27th

15:13

through the 29th. The

15:15

surveillance footage, coupled with the phone records,

15:17

seemingly ruled out the ex of having

15:20

any direct involvement with Diana's disappearance. Then,

15:23

on August 5th, a body

15:25

was found about an hour and 20 minutes east

15:27

of Tacoma near I-90. That

15:29

afternoon, a woman was walking her dogs near

15:31

Snoqualmie Pass when one of her dogs ran

15:33

25 yards into the woods. The

15:36

woman followed the dog and was led to

15:38

a half-buried body. She immediately

15:41

called the police. Responding

15:43

officers examined the body and believed

15:45

it might be Diana Davis, so

15:47

they immediately called Detective Nazworthy. He

15:49

later told Unsolved Mysteries that after he arrived

15:51

on scene, he wasn't immediately positive

15:54

that the body belonged to Diana due

15:56

to the advanced state of decomposition. The

15:58

killer attempted to dig a grave. grave, but

16:01

gave up after only getting six inches in. He

16:04

buried the body's lower half in a shallow grave,

16:06

then covered the upper half with tree debris. This

16:10

meant the upper part was more

16:12

exposed to the elements and animals,

16:14

speeding up decomposition and making the

16:16

body unidentifiable upon observation alone. When

16:18

investigators uncovered the lower half of the

16:20

body, which was in a lesser state

16:22

of decomposition, Nazworthy immediately noticed

16:25

a leg tattoo that matched Diana's.

16:27

He now believed the body was hers,

16:29

however no identifying belongings like her phone

16:31

were found in the area, so

16:34

he couldn't be 100% certain until an

16:36

autopsy was completed. The King

16:38

County Medical Examiner and a team of

16:40

forensic anthropologists performed an autopsy on the

16:42

remains. Within five days,

16:45

they were able to officially identify

16:47

them as belonging to Diana Davis.

16:50

My Northwest reported that the autopsy

16:52

concluded Diana's cause of death was

16:55

repeated blunt force trauma to her head and face,

16:58

most likely with a hammer. Nazworthy

17:00

noted that the high level of violence

17:02

suggested a close and personal attack. He

17:05

thought there was also a possibility that

17:07

Diana may have been sexually assaulted, but

17:09

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Now I want to pause here for

18:16

a second and talk about this because

18:19

this this gets thrown out a lot in true

18:21

crime and I'm

18:23

not a forensic pathologist, not a medical

18:25

examiner. I don't do this

18:27

every day and there are

18:29

way better people more qualified to talk about

18:31

this but and then you also

18:33

have the psychological element of it. I'm not

18:36

a forensic psychologist either but I hear what

18:39

people are saying when they say you know the violent

18:42

nature of this attack

18:44

could suggest that it was personal in

18:47

nature right this crime of passion this

18:49

violent act where this person was hurting

18:51

and was mad at their victim and

18:53

therefore inflicted this level of pain. Yeah,

18:56

that's true. That's very possible. I don't

18:58

know what the statistics are behind it but

19:01

just coming from a normal person couldn't

19:03

it also be just a crime

19:06

of convenience and what I mean

19:08

by that is if this individual

19:10

is some sick person right and

19:14

let's say and I'm going to get more into this in my

19:16

perspective but let's say there's a

19:19

disagreement or something goes wrong maybe

19:21

he pushes it further than Diana

19:23

wanted to go he realizes

19:25

that she may implicate him

19:27

in a crime or or it

19:29

could have been a sexual assault could have been a

19:32

rape right where it

19:34

was there was no personal feelings in this

19:36

there wasn't any hatred but maybe the closest

19:38

thing to this assailant was

19:40

a hammer or a bat or whatever

19:44

it might be and that was

19:46

just the the the weapon of choice because

19:48

that was the most convenient it had nothing

19:50

more to do with that it's

19:52

not that deep and as far

19:54

as assaulting her multiple times again I don't want

19:56

to I don't want to take away

19:58

from what happened here But I think it's

20:01

just as likely that this person who may

20:03

not be experienced in killing people may

20:06

have struck her multiple times to ensure that she

20:08

was dead. So I try

20:10

not to get too caught up in the

20:12

whole, oh you know the way she was

20:14

killed, she was stabbed multiple times or she

20:16

was struck in the face repeatedly. You

20:19

know that suggests that this person knew her and this

20:21

was personal to them. Yeah, that's

20:23

possible. But I don't want to discredit the idea that

20:25

it's also possible that this individual just did it because

20:27

they did it and they thought that that was the

20:29

best way to accomplish what they wanted

20:32

to accomplish which was to shut her up

20:34

and make sure that she never spoke again.

20:36

That it could be, I'm not

20:39

trying to take away from what we're talking about

20:41

here. I'm just trying to keep it

20:43

in perspective for everyone because I

20:45

feel like sometimes when an

20:47

investigator or a storyteller says you

20:49

know she was struck in

20:51

the face multiple times, this you know that suggests

20:53

it was a crime of passion. Maybe they knew

20:55

this person. I feel like

20:58

sometimes what we're actually doing is narrowing the

21:00

field of vision as far as who

21:02

our potential suspects are and that's not

21:04

necessarily a good thing because if

21:06

we're only looking for people who

21:08

had some emotional connection to this and

21:11

may have acted this way, we may

21:13

be missing the actual suspect who didn't

21:15

know her from a hole in the wall, didn't care

21:18

about doing this, didn't have any previous encounters with

21:20

her where they were upset with her. This

21:22

was just a means to an end for them. I'm

21:24

just trying to keep that perspective as wide

21:26

as we can so we don't find ourselves

21:28

going down the wrong path and missing the

21:31

right person. As far as the

21:33

sexual assault, I hear different

21:35

things on this because you could have DNA,

21:38

you could have semen on the body or

21:40

in the vaginal canal and it would

21:42

suggest some type of sexual encounter. You

21:44

could have vaginal tearing, you could have

21:47

signs of holding the victim down by

21:49

the arms or legs, fingerprint impressions. So

21:52

there's a variety of things you may

21:55

see if the person isn't this badly

21:57

decomposed. But again, I don't like to go too

21:59

far down the- that path because I do think there's

22:01

a lot when it comes to this that's subjective

22:04

to interpretation and you

22:07

could have multiple, we've seen it, you could

22:09

have multiple examiners look at the same

22:11

body and come to a different conclusion.

22:14

So what's my takeaway here? Diana

22:17

was brutally murdered. Point

22:20

blank period. So I don't want to focus

22:22

too much on the motive because yes, if

22:24

we knew for sure that this crime

22:27

suggested or the way in which it was carried out,

22:29

100% guaranteed that the person who

22:32

did this had a personal vendetta against

22:34

Diana. Sure that'd be great. It would absolutely

22:36

narrow the pool and it would make all

22:38

of our jobs a lot easier. I

22:41

just don't want to go off speculation

22:43

because that's really what it is, a profile,

22:46

right? And have it be

22:48

the wrong person because then we're going to end up

22:50

where we are right now with no answers. So not

22:53

to take anything away from that. I

22:55

just want you guys leaving this with, yeah,

22:58

there's no doubt about it. Whoever did this, they're

23:00

a monster. The fact that they were

23:02

able to do this to another human being says

23:04

more about them than anything else

23:06

as to why they did it. We

23:09

may never know unless we catch them. Now

23:12

the medical examiner was able to determine

23:14

that Diana had likely been in the

23:16

wooded area since July 27th shortly after

23:18

she went missing. The medical

23:20

examiner also was able to recover male

23:22

DNA from under one of Diana's fingernails.

23:25

Now the sample isn't big enough to

23:28

enter into the national DNA database, however,

23:30

it is sufficient for a one-to-one comparison.

23:33

Now we know the sample was tested against

23:35

Diana's boyfriend and it did not match. It's

23:38

unclear if the sample had been tested against

23:40

her ex-boyfriend or anyone else for that matter.

23:43

After the news of Diana's death broke, her daughter

23:45

told the media that she was not prepared to

23:47

learn that her mom had been murdered. Diana

23:50

said, quote, to hear somebody just

23:52

kind of threw her in the woods is absolutely

23:54

sickening to me. I don't understand

23:56

why people would want to murder such a sweet, beautiful,

23:59

innocent innocent soul. Christina

24:01

went on to say that the family wanted justice,

24:04

but it wasn't going to bring Diana back. Nothing

24:07

would ever be the same again. Diana's

24:09

son Chris was also struggling with the loss. He

24:12

told Fox 13 News, quote, every

24:14

night it's hard to sleep. It's hard to

24:17

eat every day. I've dealt with

24:19

loss before. But when it's something

24:21

like this, so unnatural, unexpected, so

24:23

untimely, I can't really

24:25

fathom it. This is real

24:27

life. It's not a TV show or a movie. There

24:30

is somebody really out there who had the capability

24:32

of killing my mom. Chris

24:35

added, quote, somebody cut my mom's

24:37

life short. My mom just turned 50

24:39

and I feel like she had 50 more years in front

24:41

of her. She was full of life. Chris

24:44

ended his statement by saying the family was

24:46

really hoping people would come forward to help

24:49

find Diana's murderer. After

24:51

Diana was laid to rest, Detective

24:53

Nazworthy continued his investigation. At

24:55

this point, he had a theory about what had happened to

24:58

Diana. He told Unsolved Mysteries

25:00

that he believed Diana didn't actually plan to

25:02

meet her boyfriend for dinner on the 27th,

25:04

which is why she left the tomato in the garden. Nazworthy

25:07

thought that Diana might have been upset about

25:09

their talk regarding not wanting to get married

25:11

and wanting to see other people. So

25:14

instead of going to her boyfriend for dinner, Diana

25:16

set up a date with another man as a

25:18

way of saying, look, I can date other people,

25:20

too. Nazworthy theorized that after leaving

25:22

the garden, Diana went to Ace Hardware to

25:24

pass the time before meeting up with her

25:26

date at Lumen Field. After

25:29

leaving Ace, she drove to Seattle, parked

25:31

at the field, and turned off her phone

25:33

to focus. Unfortunately, she was

25:35

then tragically murdered. Nazworthy

25:38

also believed it's possible Diana's car was

25:40

used to transport her body to Snow

25:42

Qualmy Pass, an area the killer was

25:44

likely familiar with as it wasn't a

25:46

type of place you would stumble upon

25:48

accidentally. Because of this

25:50

location, Nazworthy thinks the killer is an

25:52

outdoorsy type who likes hunting, hiking, or

25:55

even camping. Nazworthy further believes

25:57

the killer knew Diana was from the

25:59

Tacoma area. and that's why he left

26:01

her car burning there. He theorized

26:03

that the killer is also familiar with Tacoma,

26:05

which explains how he was able to choose

26:08

a spot without cameras to burn the vehicle.

26:10

Nazworthy thought it was possible that Diana met

26:12

this man on a dating website right before

26:15

their date, or maybe she had already been

26:17

on a date with him in the past. Nazworthy

26:19

suspected this man had a professional career

26:21

as well because, as I said earlier,

26:24

Diana tended to only date

26:26

businessmen, pilots, lawyers, people with

26:29

established careers. Now I

26:31

want to take a second here and just

26:33

give another wrinkle because when

26:35

you think about those types of individuals,

26:38

what do they also have in common? They

26:41

travel a lot. So it's

26:43

very possible that Diana, maybe not by

26:45

choice, was dating a lot of men

26:47

who had professions

26:50

that required them to travel throughout

26:52

the country. And so these

26:54

men, as they're traveling from state to state,

26:56

are hopping on these websites, finding

26:59

women in whatever city they're spending the night

27:01

in, and going out on a date, potentially

27:03

hooking up and going on their

27:05

way. Maybe this

27:07

is an angle that Nazworthy had already looked into,

27:09

but I can tell you right now, if

27:12

I were working this case, these

27:14

are the types of individuals that I'd be looking

27:16

for. Now before I give

27:18

you my opinion on all of this, I

27:20

want to note that Diana's best friend Monica

27:22

told Unsolved Mysteries that she disagrees

27:24

with parts of Nazworthy's theory. She

27:27

doesn't think Diana would meet up with someone other

27:29

than her boyfriend for a date during COVID. However,

27:32

Monica did concede that it wasn't

27:34

impossible. She mentioned that if Diana

27:36

did arrange a date, it would have been

27:38

with someone she already knew as she

27:41

was wary of strangers due to COVID. Now

27:43

as far as my thoughts on this, I

27:45

don't necessarily disagree with Monica and I'll be

27:47

the first to admit she knows Diana way

27:49

better than I ever will. But

27:52

I will say if there was something that occurred

27:54

that maybe caused Diana to

27:58

act differently would

28:00

maybe out of frustration or anger she

28:03

could go outside the scope of how she would

28:05

normally act especially as it

28:08

pertains to what her friends and family would normally

28:10

expect from her. And what I mean by that is

28:13

yeah under certain conditions Diana

28:15

probably conducted herself in a

28:18

pretty similar pattern. However

28:21

if something threw her off maybe

28:23

a conversation with her boyfriend the

28:25

night before that frustrated her and

28:27

maybe she wanted to prove a

28:29

point. Could she go

28:31

outside what she would normally do during COVID

28:34

in order to try to get something

28:36

across to her boyfriend that hey I'm

28:38

not gonna be here forever? That's possible.

28:41

It's also possible that Monica's right. I'm

28:44

not saying at all that it's that this person responsible

28:46

for her death isn't someone she already knew. In fact

28:48

we're gonna get to it in a little bit but

28:51

a little bit of a foreshadow here I

28:53

think more than likely it was someone she knew from the

28:55

past. Now hoping to find the man

28:57

that Diana possibly went on a date with Nasworthy

28:59

obtained a search warrant for her known

29:02

dating profiles match.com and a

29:04

website related to BDSM. According

29:06

to Fox 13 News Diana's last

29:08

login on match.com was a month

29:11

before she went missing. Details

29:13

on the BDSM website haven't been released

29:15

but as far as I can tell

29:17

the site doesn't provide any obvious leads

29:20

either. Without Diana's phone Nasworthy

29:22

had no idea if she had used

29:24

any other dating sites. To

29:26

learn about that potential possibility Nasworthy asked

29:28

the public for tips hoping to find

29:30

men who might have matched with her

29:32

or even dated her from a different

29:34

platform. Unfortunately no

29:37

solid tips came in and

29:39

the case stalled. In 2022 the

29:41

Tacoma Police and King County Sheriff's Office began

29:44

working with the Seattle Police and

29:46

the FBI to solve Diana's case.

29:48

In September of 2022

29:51

more than two years after Diana's death authorities

29:54

held a press conference to remind everyone about

29:56

the case and how it was still

29:58

unsolved. Detective Nasworthy where they said,

30:00

quote, this person went through a lot of

30:02

effort to cover up this crime. Not

30:04

only did they take her out in the woods, bury

30:07

her in a place where they probably didn't think she'd

30:09

ever be located, but they also went

30:11

through the effort to burn her car to hide

30:13

evidence. And that's not something you're

30:15

going to see usually in a random crime. Since

30:18

the press conference, there have been very few

30:20

official updates in Diana's case. However,

30:24

some people online believe a potential person of

30:26

interest emerged in April of 2023. That month,

30:30

a man named Brett Getchell was

30:32

charged with the kidnapping and murder

30:34

of Leticia Martinez-Kosman in Seattle. Media

30:37

outlets reported that Brett and Leticia went to a

30:40

Mariners game, which was held right next to Loom

30:42

and Field. Following the game,

30:44

Leticia vanished, and almost two weeks later,

30:46

she was found strangled in a wooded

30:48

area 20 minutes away in Renton. Brett

30:51

had burned Leticia's car to hide evidence

30:53

and also attacked her adult son. After

30:56

Brett's arrest, many people online noticed

30:58

that Leticia's murder shares similarities with

31:01

Diana's, a possible first date near

31:03

Loom and Field, a burned car, and

31:06

a burial in the woods. Now, some

31:08

people have theorized that Brett might be

31:10

Diana's killer. But as far as

31:12

I can tell, the Tacoma police have not commented

31:14

on this publicly. That being said, Diana's

31:17

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31:19

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engineering tech. All right, so let's

32:25

dive into my perspective and I know I always say oh,

32:27

this is gonna be a quick one and then it's never

32:29

quick, but this one actually is gonna be quick and I'll

32:31

tell you why I agree with

32:33

a lot of what Nazworthy has had to say

32:36

about this case. I think he's spot-on. I

32:38

definitely think there's a situation here where

32:41

there was a conversation the night before

32:43

between Diana and and the boyfriend and

32:46

she didn't like what was said. She thought the

32:48

relationship was going one way. He

32:50

clearly felt that it was going another. So

32:53

she goes over to the garden. I think

32:55

she may have already had a date lined

32:57

up. She already knew what she was going

33:00

to be doing and as I

33:02

said earlier, it's probably someone that

33:04

she's dated before and may have been in

33:06

town again, which is why the

33:08

phone might be missing by the way. If there's those

33:11

messages that are going back and forth that maybe

33:14

on a like, I don't know, a secretive app that was

33:16

only on the phone, then it wouldn't be on her phone

33:18

records like a Snapchat or something like that.

33:20

There may not be a record of it. But

33:23

that being said, I think she knew she

33:25

was going out that night. So she goes

33:27

to the garden. She sends the picture

33:30

of the tomato full

33:32

well-knowing. She has no intention on going

33:34

there. She leaves the tomato in the

33:36

garden well before anything happens. That's a

33:38

verifiable fact. Nazworthy has already checked that

33:40

all out. It checks out and just

33:43

a quick to go back to what

33:45

we talked about in the episode. As suspicious

33:47

as the ex-boyfriend might be and you

33:49

know the boyfriend knowing what he knew, I the

33:53

peers, they were both thoroughly vetted. And

33:55

I would if I had to guess if I

33:57

had to guess the DNA that we

33:59

had have was also

34:01

compared to the ex-boyfriend. That's

34:04

my guess. But even if it wasn't, you

34:06

can't be in two places at once. If

34:08

he's seen on camera going into his residence

34:10

and then he doesn't leave that

34:13

entire day, well, he can't kill

34:15

her on the 27th if he never leaves his

34:17

house. So that would be exculpatory

34:19

evidence. So either way, I don't

34:21

think the ex-boyfriend or the boyfriend are good

34:23

for this murder. So let's get back to

34:26

what I think as far as what happened

34:28

and how it lines up with what Nazworthy

34:30

has already said. She knows she's

34:32

going on a date. She knows

34:34

the time in which she has to be there. She

34:36

knows how long it's going to take to get there,

34:38

which is why she goes to Ace Hardware.

34:41

We've all done it, right? You have a place that

34:43

you're going to be meeting someone, maybe not necessarily a

34:45

date, and instead of going home,

34:48

you just stop somewhere to kill some time. We've

34:50

all done it. It's super common. It

34:52

makes perfect sense. So she's at

34:54

the hardware store, doesn't buy a single thing,

34:57

and heads on up to Seattle

34:59

and heads over near Lumen Field.

35:02

And although I wouldn't suggest

35:04

doing this ever, turning off your phone, especially when

35:06

you're meeting up with someone who you may not

35:09

know that well, it does appear

35:11

that that was a common behavior for Diana.

35:13

So I'm not going to knock her for

35:15

it. We're just going to acknowledge that the

35:17

phone going off at that time

35:20

is not that suspicious because it's something she was known

35:22

to do in the past. But what

35:24

we know, based on her friends and

35:26

family, is that when that phone went off,

35:29

it was usually because she was meeting

35:31

with someone more specifically a date. So

35:34

is it a big leap to believe

35:36

that more than likely she

35:38

was meeting someone for a date? I don't think so. More

35:41

than likely she went up to Seattle knowing

35:43

that she had someone there that she was going to be

35:45

meeting for dinner or whatever the case may be. And

35:48

as soon as she got out of the car or as soon as she parked, she

35:50

shut off her phone, which she had done in the past. And

35:53

as Nazworthy said, something happens that night.

35:55

Maybe it was premeditated. Maybe this individual

35:57

who had met up with her before.

36:00

kind of softened her up a little bit, made her drop

36:02

her guard a little bit, had some nefarious

36:04

intentions going into it and knew what they

36:06

were gonna do that night, or

36:08

this was something that just kind of went

36:10

awry, where that's where the hammer

36:13

kinda comes in and it

36:15

could mean one of two things, right? And we don't

36:17

know for sure it was a hammer but could have

36:19

been a some other blunt force object similar to a

36:21

hammer, but it could mean one of two

36:23

things. One sick individual who

36:25

found gratification by using an item

36:27

like that during the murder or

36:30

as I said earlier, this was the

36:32

closest thing in reach, right? Something goes

36:34

wrong, there's a sexual assault, something of

36:37

that nature and there's a

36:39

fight that occurs which is why DNA

36:42

was found under Diana's fingernails, that would

36:44

be a sign of a defensive wound

36:47

and during that assault the individual grabbed a

36:49

hammer or something like a hammer, strikes

36:51

her once, strikes her twice, incapacitates

36:54

her and then continues to

36:56

strike her to kill her. And then

36:58

as Nasworthy said, this person knows the

37:00

area where he eventually leaves her body,

37:03

gets a little spook that maybe someone's gonna

37:05

come by, doesn't dig a deep enough grave

37:07

but figures based on where it's located, it's

37:10

far enough off the beaten path where no

37:12

one will find her and based on what

37:14

we know that may have been the case

37:16

if it wasn't for this dog that as

37:18

I said, ran 25 yards off the walk

37:22

to locate Diana. And the burning

37:24

of the car, I don't think it takes a

37:26

detective to figure that one out, of course, they

37:28

might have been in her vehicle together, the the

37:31

vehicle might have been used later to transport her

37:33

body although that would be very risky to do

37:36

that but it's possible and yeah,

37:38

there's no doubt about it, they brought the car

37:40

to a location where they knew

37:42

or assumed there were no cameras and

37:44

they decided to light it on fire to

37:46

hopefully destroy any type of trace

37:49

evidence that would potentially be left behind. Fortunately

37:52

for us, the

37:54

individual did not expect Diana's body

37:56

to be recovered and more importantly

37:58

did not expect anything that

38:00

was recovered to be viable in a

38:03

potential DNA test. So that's

38:05

where we are right now. We do have

38:07

some DNA. If we find

38:09

a potential suspect, we can

38:11

connect them to this crime. If they're

38:13

not someone who had a previous relationship

38:16

with Diana and fits the

38:18

the different criteria here as far as

38:21

the dates in question July 27th and

38:23

may have been known to date people in

38:26

the past, this could be something where we

38:28

could really solve this case and that's why I wanted

38:31

to get it out to you guys because I do think you

38:34

or or someone you know may

38:36

know Diana or know someone she

38:38

dated and this could get

38:40

the ball rolling. As I said earlier,

38:43

just finding a different dating app that

38:45

she may have used that Detective Nazworthy

38:47

is not familiar with, he

38:49

may be able to get a

38:51

warrant for that website to see

38:53

the conversations that Diana was having

38:55

on that platform and if we're

38:58

really lucky maybe she was

39:00

having a conversation on one of

39:02

those platforms that happened relatively recently

39:05

and around the time in which she

39:07

possibly went on this date. So

39:10

that's where we are right now. We have a

39:12

date, a time, a potential

39:14

location where Diana met up with

39:16

her offender and we

39:18

know the path in which Diana was

39:20

brought back and left at

39:22

this park and then also her car

39:24

was burned. So as I

39:26

mentioned all these different locations, this

39:29

may be something that rings a bell for someone

39:31

out there who's watching or listening to this episode

39:34

of maybe a person who would be

39:36

familiar with all three of

39:38

these locations and may have been dating around

39:41

the time of July 27 2020 and that's

39:44

where you come in. If you have information we need

39:47

you to come forward. So real quickly just to

39:49

recap, Diana Davis was last

39:51

verifiably seen at 5.50 p.m.

39:54

on July 27 2020

39:57

at an Ace Hardware near downtown Tacoma in

39:59

Washington. Washington, phone records

40:01

show that within two hours she was at

40:03

Loom & Field in Seattle, and

40:05

on July 29th, Diana's silver 2013

40:08

Chevy Impala was found burning in

40:11

an alley in the 1600

40:13

block of Court E in downtown Tacoma.

40:15

On August 5th, her body was found

40:17

near Snoqualmie Pass, and her phone has

40:20

never been recovered. In

40:22

addition to wanting to speak to anyone

40:24

who knows about Diana's murder, detectives want

40:26

to talk to anyone who saw Diana

40:28

and or her car between July 27th

40:30

and July 29th, as

40:33

well as anyone who might have matched with her or

40:35

dated her in the past. If you

40:37

have any information, you can call Crime Stoppers

40:40

at 1-800-222-8477. And

40:45

my final words on this one are

40:47

really simple based on where we are

40:49

right now. It's the beginning of December

40:52

as I'm filming this episode, and

40:54

I'm thinking about Chris and Christina,

40:56

Diana's children. We covered

40:58

a lot of cases this year, and we talked

41:01

about a lot of families that have been affected

41:04

exponentially, and their lives will never be the

41:06

same. And I

41:09

know why, and you know why we're

41:11

covering these cases. We want to spread

41:13

the message about these unresolved stories with

41:16

the potential that maybe, just maybe,

41:19

we'll be able to solve one of them. That's the

41:21

goal here. I

41:23

think the silver lining in

41:25

listening to these stories, for

41:28

me and for you, is that we

41:31

can find value in the fact that around the

41:33

holidays, I think we all have things

41:36

that we complain about, that we

41:38

wish were better. And I

41:40

know without a doubt that Chris and Christina and

41:43

every other family that we've talked about

41:45

on Detective Perspective this year would

41:48

give anything just to

41:50

have their loved ones back. So

41:52

as I leave this year, thinking

41:54

about all the cases that we covered, that's

41:57

what I'm taking with me. Yes, we're going to continue

41:59

to... fight for justice, but

42:01

at minimum it makes me more grateful for what I

42:03

have and the fact that I can still pick up

42:06

the phone and call most of the

42:08

people that are closest to me in my life. The

42:10

people we talk about each week, they don't have that

42:12

luxury. And so I think

42:15

that if anything you take from this

42:17

case, it's that to talk to

42:19

the people you love the most and to understand

42:21

that tomorrow's not promised and even

42:23

if it's promised for you it may

42:26

not be promised for the people you care about. But

42:28

don't take it for granted, as I said on social

42:30

media for some of you who may have caught it,

42:33

this was supposed to come out last week

42:35

and thinking about family and friends and just

42:38

talking about them now, they have

42:40

all told me that I'm burning the wick

42:42

at both ends. I have a lot

42:44

going on right now and I'm extremely blessed and fortunate to

42:46

be in this position. But they've

42:48

been telling me for a while that I need

42:50

to slow down and it's very apparent that my

42:52

body is starting to tell me that as well.

42:55

So this is a good opportunity during the holidays

42:57

to recover and refresh myself

43:00

both mentally and physically and

43:02

get ready for 2024 where we'll

43:04

be back with detective perspective doing more

43:06

cases like we never left. And

43:09

I just want to get ready for that year

43:11

and enjoy time with the family. And

43:14

like I said, get 100% again and get ready

43:16

for the new year because we got a lot in store. Trust

43:18

me, things that you guys don't even know about. Crime Weekly is

43:20

still going to be out there every week. Like

43:23

I said, we're going to be shutting it down

43:25

for the rest of the year for detective perspective

43:27

so we can get things in order. I

43:29

can get back to 100% health and

43:31

we can keep it rolling. So I just want

43:34

to say thank you to every single one of you who

43:36

has tuned in every single week

43:38

whether you're listening or watching. This

43:41

was a new thing that I started. I didn't know where it was

43:43

going to go and I can see the

43:45

potential now. My vision for what

43:47

this was when I initially started, it's

43:49

finally becoming a realization. I'm super excited for

43:51

the potential of what we could do in

43:53

the future. There's some things going on behind

43:55

the scenes that may even help us grow

43:57

this channel more that may help get the

44:00

the message out about what we're trying to

44:02

do, and most importantly, get the message out

44:04

about the cases we're covering. So

44:06

again, thank you to everyone who's been

44:08

here all year with me. We'll

44:11

be back next year. And listen, if you're someone

44:13

who is like, whoa, what am

44:15

I gonna do? I love true crime. I wanna

44:17

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44:19

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44:22

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44:24

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44:26

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44:28

said before, and I'll say it again, I

44:31

could not do what I'm doing here without

44:33

the team that I have around me. Shout

44:35

out to Shannon, my editor, she's amazing. And

44:38

shout out to Haley Gray, who

44:41

is a researcher and writer for the

44:43

show as well. She's also incredible. And

44:46

that's what I wanna talk to you about right now.

44:48

Listen, a lot of you guys listen to these cases

44:50

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44:52

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44:55

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44:57

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46:06

me guys. I survived. I got through it. I still

46:10

have my voice. It's amazing. Again, can't

46:12

thank you enough for being here with me

46:14

each and every week. I will see you

46:16

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46:18

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