Exposed

A "CSI: Miami" Actress Crosses Paths With A Real Serial Killer

(CBS)  After several days, Donnalee’s mother went to the police. "It didn’t seem like anything was getting done about it," says Lori. "They posted a few fliers around Culver City, around where the bar was and that’s all I knew."

Years passed and then in 1985, police contacted Lisa and Lori. Investigators had found photographs of Donnalee in Bradford’s apartment and Bradford admitted taking them the night he met Donnalee in the bar, according to Sgt. Bobby Taylor.

The police checked their records and discovered the body of an unidentified woman found in Topanga Canyon about the same time Donnalee went missing. Using dental records and fingerprints, detectives established conclusively that the woman was in fact Donnalee Duhamel.

Police still lacked enough evidence to charge Bradford, but he was sent to death row for the murders of Shari Miller and Tracy Campbell and the file on Donnalee remained open.

Cpt. Peavy of the L.A. County’s sheriff’s office, hoping for more information, included Donnalee’s photo on their poster.

Well-known attorney Gloria Allred is assisting Lisa and Lori.

"The fact that he is sitting on death row convicted of the murders of two other young women should not stop them from trying to get answers and accountability," Allred says.

After all these years and false starts, the Donnalee Duhamel case now is at the forefront of the sheriff’s investigation.

"We’re absolutely convinced that he murdered her," says Peavy. "That the case will eventually be presented to the district attorney.”

Lisa and Lori, who have daughters of their own now, are hoping to finally see their mother’s killer held accountable.

But Bradford to this day denies he had anything to do with Donnalee’s murder and in fact is still hoping to overturn his two murder convictions.