Daddy's Girl

Daddy's Girl

She was seventeen years old, competing in her very first beauty pageant, and she was there alone. Her dad called her his girl. Her car's number plate read TOMISH — To Michelle — with the tag line 'Daddy's Girl.' She had told her mum she was going to be President by the time she was thirty-five. She will forever be seventeen.


Michelle Korfman left that Las Vegas shopping mall on a Sunday afternoon in March 1984 with a man who told her she had a big future in modelling. But he wasn't a fashion photographer, he was a serial killer who had been preying on America's most beautiful women for two decades.


Michelle's family spent a small fortune searching for her — helicopters, search parties, 25,000 posters. They never stopped looking.


She was found forty days later but spent another month in the morgue, listed as Jane Doe #39, before dental records finally gave her back her name.


This is Michelle's story, this is her voice - not the killers. Because she was a piano player, a photographer, a daughter, and a dreamer — and she deserves to be remembered as exactly that.


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Andy Byrne

Mark Llewellyn


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Sam Blacker - The Podcast Butler


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The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne - courtesy of Penguin Random House


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