Sweethearts, the sixth season of Laura Palmer’s Island Crime podcast, looks at the lives and deaths of the three girls, and argues the cases could be connected
Kimberly Gallup had just turned 17 when she was found strangled to death in a Victoria motel in November 1990.
The first episode of Sweethearts, the sixth season of Palmer’s Island Crime podcast, was released this past week, and dives into Kimberly’s life and death. At some point, her dad, Del Gallup, found out she was being sexually exploited, with a pimp that she called her boyfriend. The man and Kimberly took a taxi to the Colony Motor Inn, a former motel on Douglas Street, where she shared a room known at the time as a “trick pad” with other girls, Palmer says in the episode.
About a year later, while six months pregnant, she was killed in Victoria after meeting a man in downtown Victoria. Her body was discovered in Saanich in the fall of 1990, Palmer said.Forensic evidence links Kimberly’s death to the deaths of three Vancouver sex workers around the same time, an officer said at the time.
Palmer hopes the podcast series will bring new life to the cases. If they’re going to be solved, it will likely be through genetic genealogy, the process of using DNA evidence and genealogy to build a family tree and pinpoint a suspect, she said.
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