Weekend Edition: The Seafood Market Murder

When a murdered woman is found behind a Philadelphia fish market, investigators suspect she may be the victim of a local serial killer. Plus: a doomsday cult murder, and a missing woman discovered.

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The Seafood Market Murder

At 46 years old, Carol Dowd was battling many challenges in life. She lived in a halfway house in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia and frequented local bars.

She was outgoing and quick to strike up a conversation with anyone: the cashier at the Little Spot, who sold her a six-pack of beer on the evening of April 28, 1990; the bartender at the Happy Tap, who poured her drinks that night; and a stranger she had just met that evening at the bar—an older, white man with gray hair.