Doctor’s Orders | 2. Mystery Woman

The lab results start coming back on the Redding murder investigation and there’s a shocking result — the DNA on Juilana’s doorknob, stove, shirt and neck all match the same person. And it’s a woman?? Doctor’s Orders is produced by Western Sound for Sony Music Entertainment’s The Binge. Binge all episodes of Doctor’s Orders, ad-free today by subscribing to The Binge. Visit The Binge Crimes on Apple Podcasts and hit ‘subscribe’ or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access. The Binge – feed your true crime obsession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  So Juliana and I are four days apart. My birthday is October 21st. She's October 25th.

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  This is Jessica, Juliana Redding's childhood friend. She's telling us some important things that happened in October 2007 with Juliana's boss, or boyfriend, or both. The doctor, Munir Uweda. They'd met a few months earlier, in July.

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  And so, for our 21st birthdays, we all kind of came up with, you know, everybody wants to do a big 21st. So I did have had a party here in San Diego. And at my birthday, she had mentioned, for hers, that she wanted to do Vegas.

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  This is about six months before Juliana was murdered.

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  And she said, "My boss," maybe she said is Munir, "is going to," he's put together a birthday party for me, in Vegas. And he's gonna fly us out there, and he's taking care of the hotel, and he's got, he's planned like a whole fun weekend, surprise weekend for me. And so, like, my friends. And so, myself, and Juliana, and two other girls, we're going with Juliana for this Vegas trip.

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  At this time, Munir is Juliana's boss. She's his highly-paid assistant. He is an orthopedic surgeon and a businessman. He's also into real estate. He's given Juliana a place to live, a mansion in Beverly Hills, and a car to drive, a white Range Rover. And for her 21st birthday, he was offering a private plane from Santa Monica, California to Las Vegas. Her and her friends, a suite at the Wynn, all expenses paid. So Juliana asked Jessica and two other besties to come along. Although several people did tell me that Juliana was romantically involved with Munir, Jessica says it didn't seem romantic, not then.

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  Again, it wasn't until Vegas.

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  It wasn't that I thought they were having a relationship. It was that I thought he liked her. It wasn't anything sexual. It wasn't like when she saw him, she gave him a kiss. They didn't even make out, you know? Like, there was no... Like, I think if there is a relationship, like a kiss, like something romantic, they weren't heavily like... She wasn't sitting on his lap.

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  This was the first time and the last time Jessica would meet Munir.

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  So they all meet at the Santa Monica Airport. And very quickly, Jessica starts to question. Is she seeing red flags here? For example, Jessica says that Munir had told Juliana that he was, hmm, 28 years old.

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  I just knew he was not 28 when I saw him. Or he was a really ugly 28. And you could put that on the record. And that's when I started to be like, this guy's a little creepy.

• 4:53Speaker 01

  There's a photo from this trip on the private plane. There's Juliana and her friends in the foreground. They're smiling, out of focus, holding up their glasses for a cheers. Munir sits behind them, disengaged. He's looking away, talking into his cellphone with a very serious expression on his face.

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  Juliana had found out that Munir was not the age he had claimed.

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  Just before this birthday trip, like in the hours before this birthday trip, Juliana got a call. Someone had been digging on her behalf. And Munir, she learned, was not who he said he was.

• 5:32Speaker 03

  That he had a wife. And that earrings he had given her actually fake. So she was really upset. But it was still her 21st birthday at midnight. And she wanted to still go to Vegas.

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  So...

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  Me being the party pooper that I am sometimes, I said, "Let's not go with him to Vegas. Let's do our own trip." But the time she didn't want to cancel her birthday, we had another friend meeting us already who was in route. And so she wanted to still go on with the birthday. And I'm like, "Are you sure you want to do this?" And she's like, "It's gonna be fine." You know, like, and we weren't, again, like, I never met the guy. I'm not thinking twice. I'm just like, want to make sure she's happy. She was just mad, though. You can tell she was like, she was hurt.

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  But this wasn't just a trip to Vegas. It was a trip to Vegas.

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  So we got off the flight. He had a limo waiting for us. And we took the limo to, I think it was the Wynn Hotel. It was a nice hotel. He had like three, it was like this giant suite where there was like a huge living room. And then we had our own rooms. And again, if they were in a relationship, I don't know why she wasn't staying in a room with him. Because she was staying with us. Because this place was huge. We changed, we had some cocktails, and we went downstairs to dinner.

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  But Juliana couldn't just get over it.

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  After dinner, when we went upstairs, she started to argue with Manir, and she was just really upset. And he was not yelling at her. Looking back, he was like eerily calm in a weird way. Like, it wasn't like a normal response to a person who was that distraught. It was like a little too calm, a little too put together. And so Juliana comes in next. She's not a person, I really can't, right? This is probably one of the only times I've ever seen her cry like this, ever. And again, it's because it's like, it's her 21st birthday at midnight. And I think, you know, you have all these big expectations. And so I think she was really excited for this trip. And I think she was excited to, you know, to have fun. And so she comes in the room, and she grabs her suitcase, and she's just like, "We're leaving." So she like storms out with her suitcase.

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  And so us girls grab our suitcases. And he's like, "Tell her, I want to make sure it's supposed to be her birthday. I'll do anything, like, let her know, like, I'll fix it. Let me know how I can fix it." We all grab our suitcases, and we're like, "Don't worry, we'll be right back." And we go like, with our suitcases, running after Juliana. And obviously, we never came back.

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  But that was not the end of things. I'm Benadere. From Sony Music Entertainment and Western Sound, you're listening to Doctor's Orders.

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  This is episode two, Mystery Woman.

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  The detectives investigating Juliana's murder are also wondering, who is this guy? Munir Ueda. Here's what we know. Munir is from Lebanon, in the Middle East. He went to school there. He graduated both undergrad and medical school from the American University of Beirut. I found one of his old resumes, and it says he finished undergrad in 1987. So you figure he was 22-ish around then? That would mean he was born in 1965? So if I get my math right, he would have been 40, 41, 42 on the day of that photo on the private jet. That's not 28. In the early 90s, he came to the US.

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  He did his medical residencies on the East Coast and also went to the Wharton School at UPenn to get his MBA. So he's ambitious, and by the mid 2000s, he's established himself in California with a portfolio of very successful medical businesses. He's not just a doctor, but also an entrepreneur.

• 9:39Speaker 01

  Friends tell the police about this trip to Vegas and what happened next. After leaving Munir, Juliana and her friends ran around the Strip with their suitcases and finally ended up at the Rio. Not their first choice.

• 9:54Speaker 03

  We went from Dom Perignon and caviar to the Rio buffet in less than 12 hours.

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  Juliana woke up early, got on a Southwest flight back home.

• 10:08Speaker 03

  She wanted to get back because she wanted to move out. Even that early in the morning, Munir had already had the car confiscated. And so she didn't have her car, and she was locked out of her house. She only found her one dog, Gigi. Her dog Baron, we've never found. It's very shady.

• 10:30Speaker 01

  Over the next few months, Juliana would have to find a new place to live. She went back to her old job, working at the Venice Restaurant. She went back to driving her own car. She did talk to Munir. She did somehow get some of her clothes back. But she never found Baron, her other dog.

• 10:49Speaker 03

  The thing that's really screwed up is the dog situation. And that's what kind of all threw us off. Why is her dog gone? Supposedly that someone let him out. But he like never appeared in any shelters. And this is like Beverly Hills. So it almost makes you wonder in hindsight, like if he did something to the dog. You know, it's funny. It's like, none of us took things as seriously as we do now. Again, age, experience. So I think at the time, when I look back, there was no immediate danger. It was more, ew, like he's older. Ew, he's a liar. Like ew, no. So it wasn't really talked about in like a, you need to get away from him. He's this and that.

• 11:31Speaker 03

  It was more like, he's like, he sucks because he like took your car. So she went and got the diamonds tested and they were actually real. So that started to kind of make the story that she had been told maybe seem not true. And the facts not be true. And I think like, well, he explained the marriage because they were divorced. And so it wasn't relevant, I think, or something, as I remember it was. Like, he explained his way out of sped accusations. Again, the diamonds then supposedly being real really kind of made that.

• 12:06Speaker 01

  Right, that was like concrete evidence.

• 12:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, exactly. So then she was like, okay, maybe I overreacted.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  Oh, I saw her again back to Vegas in January, because we're insane. I'm just kidding.

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  Since the birthday trip to Vegas was a flop, Juliana and her friends decided they needed a redo, this time without Munir.

• 12:34Speaker 03

  So there's a funny joke, like, we are going to complete a trip to Vegas. It is going to be a good trip to Vegas. Because like, we cannot let Vegas not be fun.

• 12:46Speaker 03

  Actually, one of my favorite memories. It was so cute. Because this was the last time I saw her. And so again, we're in all those big suites. And we have our own, and she and I are sharing a room. And we have our own queen size comfy beds. And warm bed after going out. And she gets in bed with me and she snuggles up next to me and like, "What are you doing? You have your own bed over there." She's like, "But Jesse, I love you. I want to be near you." I'm like, "Oh, my God." Scoot over a little bit then. And like, we were just like cracking up then and like telling stories. And just, I just remember just dying laughing for hours and then passing out. And it's just, it's funny. You take for granted those little moments in the moment. Because that was one of the last times. Oh, it makes me sad.

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  It's like one of the last times I saw her. It was just so cute. And she's like, "Jesse, I love you."

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  It's just sad.

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  Just feel like we take for granted so much sometimes.

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  After Giuliana was murdered, the police lab started coming back with results. And all that meticulous work the detectives had done in the apartment paid off. Because it turned out there was a lot of DNA all over Giuliana's apartment. And a lot of it did not belong to her. One sequence of DNA stood out. Police found it on Giuliana's front door. They found it on the stove knob used to turn on the gas. They found it on the front and back of Giuliana's T-shirt. And they found it on Giuliana's neck. And all that DNA belonged to one person.

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  They ran the sequence through law enforcement databases and nothing. But they could tell one thing. And that thing shocked everyone. The DNA assumed to be the killer's belonged to a woman.

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  I'm Jack Leonard. For 27 years, I worked at the Los Angeles Times. For about six years, I was the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts reporter.

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  When Juliana was murdered, Jack Leonard heard the news from his colleagues, but didn't give it much thought.

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  So Juliana Redding, nobody had heard of Juliana Redding when she was killed. I mean, no one but her family and her friends.

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  But the more he learned, the more interested he became.

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  You had a young, aspiring model, aspiring actress who comes to Santa Monica to make her fortune and become famous. It was just a classic "go west" type of story, and I think that was intriguing.

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  He remembers the early days, the different theories around the crime. You know, you always suspect the boyfriend, husband, or partner, whether it's John Gilmore or Munir Uweda. So the twist made it even more intriguing.

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  Most of the cases that I covered, it was pretty clear who did it. And it was a real whodunit. They find this mysterious DNA on the clothing that Juliana Redding is wearing, on her cellphone, which she has used to try and make a 911 call, or someone has tried to make a 911 call with it, on the stove knob, on the inside door, and there's no sign of a break-in, and on her throat, most importantly. And so for months, police are trying to work out who this DNA belongs to.

• 16:44Speaker 01

  Eventually, they start looking at other employees at the various places Juliana worked, including employees at the various companies owned by Munir Uweda.

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  And they start checking friends, people who knew Juliana Redding.

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  Not everyone gives their DNA willingly, so they got samples from wine glasses, cigarettes, straws, towels. In the end, they gather 42 DNA samples.

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  I think they went through more than 40 women before they finally set upon one person.

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  How long does it take? Almost two years. And that's when they find someone who looks intriguing, possible.

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  And that was Kelly Sue Park.

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  It gets a little cloak and dagger. A Santa Monica detective named Karen Thompson starts tailing this 44-year-old Korean-American woman who held a sort of nebulous role in Ueda's organization.

• 17:40Speaker 04

  They're following her around, and she drops a cigarette butt.

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  Notes to would-be suspects in crimes: "Don't smoke. It's bad for you."

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  They pick it up, they analyze it, and it matches the DNA that was in Juliana Redding's apartment.

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  It matches the DNA on the door, it matches the DNA on the cellphone, and it matches the DNA on Juliana Redding's neck.

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  They firm up her as a suspect.

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  Detectives dig into her work with Munir. Next, they get a search warrant to obtain Kelly Sue Park's fingerprints. Homicide detective Michael Bambrik tracks Kelly to a parking lot in Camarillo, California. He recorded the interaction.

• 18:23Speaker 05

  Search warrant. We're investigating a murder that occurred in Santa Monica. What? 2008. Well, who? We're investigating the murder of Juliana Redding. And during investigation, your name came up. So, my partner Detective Thompson got a search warrant, signed by a judge, to take your fingerprints. Okay, you're not under arrest. All right, I know it's a little startling.

• 18:48Speaker 05

  You're not under arrest. We're just here to take your fingerprints and send you on your way. I don't even know this person. Who is this person? Wait, wait, wait, guys. I want to call my attorney or something. Okay, this is Juliana Redding. Oh, my God.

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  Kelly refuses to give them her fingerprints. She says she wants to call a lawyer. But Officer Bambrik says...

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  You have two choices. Either submit the search warrant. No, I know. It's a court order, signed by a judge, or I will arrest you. Listen to me. Or I have to arrest you for not complying with a court order. Okay?

• 19:22Speaker 01

  But Kelly does not comply.

• 19:25Speaker 05

  You're now in custody. You're now, you're now in custody. Okay? Okay, I'm just gonna put your hands on your back and put your hands in your hands. You're now under arrest for violation of a court order. I explained to you.

• 19:40Speaker 01

  This was June 2010, more than two years after Juliana's murder. At the station, they fingerprint Kelly Park. They compare those prints to what they found in Juliana's apartment. There's one match.

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  Yeah, I remember, I think her brother called me and told me that they arrested somebody. And it was a woman, and I was like, what? And I was like, what's her name?

• 20:13Speaker 01

  When Juliana's friends and family heard that a woman named Kelly Sue Park was arrested for Juliana's murder, they were, well, they were shocked. Who? This is Juliana's childhood friend Jessica.

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  And then he gave me her name, and I was like, who the hell?

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  Who the hell is that?

• 20:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was like, I have no, I'd never heard of her.

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  I think initially, the onset was

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  was this some jealous girl who was jealous of her.

• 20:44Speaker 06

  I had never heard her name out of Juliana's mouth.

• 20:47Speaker 01

  Alana Hadid.

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  Or anyone else's mouth before that day.

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  I, I was shocked. I was, yeah, I was really shocked.

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  This was not what anyone expected.

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  As a society, you don't think of like, woman-on-woman crime like that initially. You think angry lover at first, or crazy homeless person, or something like that.

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  And it left them all questioning. Yes, Kelly Sue Park worked for Munir Uweda. But where was Munir Uweda?

• 21:53Speaker 07

  One day last year, police entered a mansion in LA County and discovered the couple that live there had almost two dozen children. Nearly every one of them born through surrogates. But those surrogates had been deceived.

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  I started crying. I was like, what the heck did I just get myself into?

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  I'm Eva Kaufman. The Journey is a new series from In the Dark and The New Yorker. Find it now in the In the Dark podcast feed.

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  Kelly Sue Park was charged with the murder of Juliana Redding. Dr. Munir Uweda fled the country.

• 22:33Speaker 09

  Dr. Uweda smelled it. I don't know how, but he figured it out and he fled back to Lebanon and evaded arrest.

• 22:44Speaker 01

  This is Lance Lamont. She's a journalist and runs the website adjustercom.net. Her regular beat is fraud in the insurance industry. But someone tipped her off to a certain doctor whose name had come up in a very different context.

• 23:01Speaker 09

  I thought, this is pretty wild.

• 23:06Speaker 09

  It's pretty wild for a treating doctor of worker compensation cases to be a person of interest in a murder case and then flee the country. That's pretty suspicious. That sounds like mafia stuff. It sounds like crime. It surprised me and shocked me.

• 23:32Speaker 09

  So Larry Kennedy wrote this article. I edited it. Basically, it was just a matter of fact. This is what happened. His driver drove him to Mexico. He got on a flight from Mexico. He flew to Lebanon. That's where he is now.

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  Lebanon does not have an extradition agreement with the United States, so effectively, anyone there is out of reach of the American criminal justice system. Kelly Sue Park seemed to be on her own.

• 24:03Speaker 09

  Kelly Sue Park began appearing in court.

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  But in court, prosecutors alleged that Kelly Sue Park was not on her own. During pretrial hearings, prosecutors say she was paid $250,000 by Munir Yeweda just three weeks before Juliana was killed. And Park's family received another payment, they say, of $113,400 in the days just before her arrest. And there was another detail that became public.

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  The prosecution argued that Kelly Sue Park didn't know Juliana Redding. She showed up at her door because she wanted to talk her into arguing with her to convince her father to be a pharmacist for Munir Yeweda.

• 24:54Speaker 01

  Juliana's father, Greg Redding, is a pharmacist in Arizona. And exhibits eventually filed in court showed that for several months before Juliana's murder, Munir was courting him, trying to get him to move to California and work for him. According to media reports at the time, Munir was offering Greg a salary of $400,000 a year. The court filings we obtained for this podcast include a series of letters around the potential employment of Greg Redding at a company called Golden State Pharmaceuticals, which prosecutors said was controlled by Munir. Golden State Pharma wanted to hire Greg as a lead pharmacist to oversee the mixing and manufacturing of medicine.

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  Shortly before Juliana's death, Greg's lawyers got a letter from Golden State Pharma saying the employment proposal had been withdrawn. Greg's lawyers responded with, "Well, our client wasn't planning on taking the job anyway because Golden State Pharma doesn't seem to be on, quote unquote, 'solid legal footing.'" Five days later, Juliana was dead. One theory presented during the trial was that-

• 26:06Speaker 09

  Yeweda and Kelly Sue Park wanted Greg Redding in the worst way. So when Greg Redding turned them down, they got angry. And Kelly Sue Park went over to Juliana Redding's house, her bungalow in Santa Monica, in order to bully her into talking her father into working for Dr. Yeweda.

• 26:31Speaker 01

  We tried to reach Greg Redding for this podcast, but never heard back. Lance has a theory on what happened.

• 26:37Speaker 09

  This is my imagination speaking now. That's why Kelly Su Park went to the bungalow in order to talk her into it. And narcissistic rage took over. There's nothing more than certain narcissistic people want than money.

• 26:56Speaker 09

  Money, money, money.

• 26:58Speaker 01

  In pretrial hearings, prosecutors said that Kelly worked for Munir as a kind of debt collector and enforcer, that she used intimidation to forward Munir's business interests. And that's what she was doing when she went to Juliana's Santa Monica Bungalow. They say Munir called her his "female James Bond." You see that in the press stories all over the place, "female James Bond." The defense denied these claims.

• 27:24Speaker 09

  The judge said that she could not receive any bail from Dr. Yowaita. Her bail had to come from a different source. It couldn't be from someone who was complicit in the case. The bail was $1 million to start, and then, I believe, it went up to $3 million. She got the money eventually through her mother, through relatives, through connections in Korea. They couldn't connect these people to Dr. Yowaita, but many were suspected of having some connection. But it couldn't be proven.

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  The judge couldn't come up with any solid evidence that they were connected to Yowaita.

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  So after a few months in custody, Kelly Su Park was out on bail of $3.5 million.

• 28:27Speaker 01

  It took almost three years from Kelly's arrest for trial to start in May 2013.

• 28:34Speaker 01

  By this point, the case was big news on local TV.

• 28:37Speaker 10

  The jury will likely be seated today in the case of a woman dubbed "The Female James Bond." Tall and strikingly good-looking, her name is Kelly Sue Park, and she's on trial for the murder of 21-year-old Juliana Redding, an aspiring model and actress seen in this

• 28:54Speaker 06

  Her family and friends and myself would always meet at the church right near the courthouse before the trial, and we would say a prayer for Juliana and for justice, and then walk over to the trial.

• 29:06Speaker 01

  Juliana's friend, Alana Hadid, attended almost every day of the trial.

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  We were always praying for her. She was very religious and loved God and loved church, and it was a really important part of her life, and so it was something we wanted to do while her story was being told.

• 29:25Speaker 04

  There were two really important decisions before the trial that the judge made. One really hurt the prosecution.

• 29:35Speaker 01

  This is former LA Times journalist Jack Leonard again.

• 29:38Speaker 04

  The prosecution's case was built on the idea that Kelly Sue Park was the muscle. She was the enforcer for Dr. Ueda. The judge said that there really wasn't any evidence that Kelly Sue Park had been committing the kind of crime, was inflicting the kind of violence that the prosecution was saying she had inflicted on Juliana Redding. So the judge said, "No, you can't use that argument. I'm not going to allow you to argue that Kelly Sue Park was an enforcer for Dr. Ueda." That really hurt the prosecution, because the prosecution's whole case revolved around

• 30:22Speaker 04

  this shadow that wasn't in the court, Dr. Ueda.

• 30:27Speaker 04

  And without being able to really say why Kelly Sue Park would have been operating for Dr. Ueda, there was a big hole in their case.

• 30:40Speaker 01

  The other decision the judge made was against the defense.

• 30:43Speaker 04

  The defense wanted to argue that the boyfriend may well have committed the murder, but the judge wouldn't allow that.

• 30:50Speaker 01

  Sitting through the trial, Alana says she could feel Munir's presence looming over everything.

• 30:57Speaker 06

  The fact that he was hardly spoken about at trial was really hard for everyone.

• 31:03Speaker 04

  The funny thing is, they continued on with their case. I mean, I don't know what else they were going to do, because that was what they believed went down. They can say that she worked for Ueda, but why on earth would a businesswoman go in and murder an aspiring model who happened to date her boss a year earlier? It effectively short-circuited the motive conversation.

• 31:27Speaker 01

  But the prosecution did not seem flustered. Alan Jackson was one of the prosecutors on the case. He appeared more than confident when speaking to CBS News.

• 31:37Speaker 11

  I can tell you, in 18 years of prosecuting cases, I've never had this much DNA. The DNA was on the door lock, DNA on a plate in the sink, DNA on that stove knob, which you'd expect because someone turned it on, DNA on the front and the back of Juliana's t-shirt, and possibly most importantly, DNA on her throat.

• 32:00Speaker 01

  And don't forget the drop of blood.

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  And guess where the blood was found? In a fingerprint. On a plate in the sink, and the fingerprint was Kelly Sue Park's left thumb.

• 32:13Speaker 01

  We reached out to the two prosecutors on this case, Alan Jackson and Stacy Okunweis, as well as to George Bueller, who led the defense. Alan Jackson never returned our many calls and messages. Stacy Okunweis and George Bueller declined to be interviewed.

• 32:32Speaker 01

  The defense, for its part, played it kinda low key. They paid for an expensive jury consultant and Juliana's friends say carefully managed Kelly's appearance to that jury.

• 32:44Speaker 06

  The way in which Kelly Sue Park was characterized, I think, was really hard because she wasn't made out to be the person who she actually was, which was like an enforcer. And she sat in the court wearing sweater sets and acting like she was completely confused.

• 33:05Speaker 01

  When the DNA evidence came up, lead defense attorney George Beeler didn't dispute it. Instead, he spent his time casting doubt on the DA's arguments about motive, on Juliana's lifestyle, even on the phone records. They also cast doubt on Kelly Sue Park. According to Alana, Kelly presented in court as a kind of confused deer in the headlights. How could she possibly have the strength to strangle Juliana despite having three inches and 40 pounds on her? After the prosecution rested, the defense called just a handful of witnesses, a few friends, and then oddly, a woman whose testimony was that she'd seen Juliana at Munir's Beverly

• 33:50Speaker 01

  Hills home and that she'd seen Kelly Sue Park there too, potentially on the same day. Then, closing arguments. And that's when things got weird. The prosecution closed its case, arguing the DNA, the fingerprint, everything pointed to Kelly Sue Park. And the defense said, essentially, "Yeah, that's true, but..."

• 34:17Speaker 04

  So George got there and he said, "There's a perfect explanation for why there could be DNA on all the most pivotal parts of the crime scene, and that is that the killer, whoever he is, had taken a rag from Juliana's house and had tried to wipe down all the things that they had touched." Well, Juliana had lived with Dr. Ueda for a little while, a few months earlier, and...

• 34:46Speaker 04

  George said that maybe when she left, she took a towel or a rag with her. And Kelly Sue Park worked for Dr. Uweda and had been in his house. And she may well have touched that rag. And so some of her DNA might have transferred to that rag. And then, when the killer used that rag from Juliana's house, Kelly Sue Park's DNA could have been then transferred to the crime scene. And that's how you end up with it at all the most important areas of that crime scene.

• 35:24Speaker 01

  CBS News captured the closing argument.

• 35:27Speaker 12

  You have a killer who's got a rag. He's going around, he's wiping the places to get rid of his fingerprints, his DNA. And he's got Mrs. Park's DNA, unbeknownst to him, but to his great benefit, on that rag.

• 35:44Speaker 01

  It was an idea that had been barely talked about in trial, certainly not interrogated. It seemed... Here's Lance Lamont.

• 35:52Speaker 09

  George Bueller made outrageous arguments that were such BS and so much malarkey and baloney that it just shocked me. He was bombastic. I'm gonna say, he pushed the envelope with some of his arguments that were total bullshit arguments. No other way I can say it. Lot of BS. And he clearly captivated the jury. George Bueller is one of the superstar defense attorneys, criminal defense attorneys.

• 36:30Speaker 04

  It was a very surprising argument. I was not expecting it. I had not seen an argument like that ever made before.

• 36:42Speaker 01

  Jury deliberations lasted a week. And on June 4, 2013, five years after Juliana's murder, the jury came back to the courtroom.

• 36:56Speaker 01

  There were two charges, both first degree and second degree murder.

• 37:00Speaker 09

  And when both of them were read, I was shocked out of my very skin. I was shocked.

• 37:07Speaker 01

  Not guilty, not guilty.

• 37:11Speaker 09

  It was mayhem. It really was.

• 37:15Speaker 01

  The courtroom erupted.

• 37:18Speaker 09

  "Bitch, there's something wrong here. Go to hell, whore." These things were yelled by Juliana's friends in the courtroom right after the verdict was read. "Go to hell, whore." I have that memorized. I'll be dead before I forget that. And "bitch" was screamed and "you murdered her." Someone yelled, "murderer."

• 37:46Speaker 09

  It was really scary in that courtroom.

• 37:50Speaker 09

  George Bueller walked out of the courtroom door like he was on a pogo stick. He'd really done it. He had gotten a not guilty verdict for his plan. And I walked out right behind Patricia Redding. And she looked at George Bueller, who was standing in front of the elevator. I believe he had pushed the button. He was waiting for the elevator doors to open. And right when the elevator doors opened, Patricia Redding yelled at him, "How would you feel if your daughter was murdered?"

• 38:27Speaker 09

  That's exactly what Patricia said. "How would you feel if your daughter was murdered?" And George just got in the elevator and moseyed on down.

• 38:43Speaker 01

  Alana. And Jessica again.

• 38:45Speaker 06

  I think everyone was just in complete shock. We couldn't believe that you could find Kelly Sue Park's DNA evidence, blood evidence on a broken plate in her sink, on the oven, on the door, I believe, on her neck, on Juliana's neck, and that any 12 people with any logical sense could say that that DNA evidence could come from anywhere else. But that's what happened, and it was really hard to process.

• 39:21Speaker 03

  I was at my house, and it was actually on the news because it was such a shocking verdict. It was on even in San Diego. They kept replaying it. It was like on the evening news and the afternoon news. I just kept rewatching it, just like, this is crazy.

• 39:37Speaker 01

  Jack Leonard.

• 39:39Speaker 04

  I had never seen a case where there was DNA evidence against a suspect, and that person was acquitted. I'd never seen a not guilty verdict for someone with DNA left at the crime scene.

• 39:54Speaker 01

  But this would not be the last time Jack would hear of Kelly Sue Park.

• 39:59Speaker 04

  I was an editor years later. I was working with the reporter. We'd worked out that Kelly Sue Park was in jail. And we were like, why is she back in jail?

• 40:13Speaker 01

  Because cops still wanted to talk to Kelly Sue Park and Munir Uweda.

• 40:23Speaker 01

  Next time on Doctor's Orders.

• 40:25Speaker 13

  So I'm telling him, it really, really hurts. And so he says, just be strong, just be strong, hang on, just hang on. And then he keeps pulling and pulling, and I'm starting to scream.

• 40:35Speaker 14

  And I asked to see the doctor to see if, what, you know, do I need to be checked out or anything? And they said, oh, you're fine, you're fine. And I said, okay, just let, just get me the hell out of here.

• 40:49Speaker 13

  And then I just started screaming, you idiots, what the hell did you do to me? You fucking idiots.

• 40:57Speaker 01

  Next up, episode three, Dirty and Scummy.

• 41:04Speaker 01

  Doctor's Orders is produced by Western Sound for Sony Music Entertainment's The Binge. The executive producer and host is me, Ben Adair. The executive producer for The Binge is Jonathan Hirsch. Doctor's Orders was written and produced by Nada Salem. It was edited by Ben Adair. Laila Hassan is our fact checker. Legal review by Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP. Michael Rayfield is the mix engineer. Next up, episode three, Dirty and Scummy.

• 41:38Speaker 15

  The wilderness can hide a lot, but it can't hide the truth forever. I'm Delia Diambra, host of Park Predators. And every week, I investigate true crime cases hidden in national parks, forests, and beaches. I follow every lead, every clue, and every overlooked detail. Because even when a trail seems to disappear, the truth has a way of resurfacing. Listen to Park Predators wherever you get your podcasts.