Nori Amaya was last seen alive on Halloween night, 2009. The 38-year-old Washington D.C. native had spent her last night with her brother Carlos at the restaurant they owned together. She drank a bottle of wine with him at the bar before she went out to do her favorite thing — salsa dancing. She was so magnetized to the dance floor that she called herself a “salsa queen.”
But the next day, Nori didn’t show up to work. At first, her brother says he assumed she had been sleeping off a hangover. But when another day went by, he went to her apartment building to check on her. Her door was locked — something he says was unusual for her — so he left and came back later that night with their younger sister, Blanca. They had a security guard unlock the door for them, and inside they found Nori’s body on her bed, covered in sheets. She had been strangled to death.
Nori’s story is featured on this week’s episode of the Unsolved Mysteries podcast. MovieMaker spoke with Terry Dunn Meurer, co-creator of the original Unsolved Mysteries, as well as the Netflix reboot and its podcast spinoff, about the tiny details that are key to identifying Nori’s killer.
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The biggest obstacle in the case is that despite DNA testing of more than 20 people, investigators have not been able to find a match for the DNA left on the scene — it didn’t match her ex-boyfriend or the people she was known to have seen that Halloween night.
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