Seeking Justice for Christa

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Jack Nicholson, Mhaw of Iran We knew that she kept a diary My mom was a very smart woman. I can definitely see her keeping track of things We don't know if there may have been extortion. A lot of people have told us that there's a diary that's missing I think that the diary was what was taken from her body when she died and that she was going to blackmail people with the diary We don't know all the names in that book We know that she did have some tapes of famous people sexually. I could send you into a sexual frenzy She had intimate relations and intimate knowledge of a lot of famous people I think it's gonna be a huge surprise when people find out who committed this crime She got in way overhead. She was playing with the big boys. Somebody killed her because of what she knew The dream was me standing in a room overlooking a parking lot The wall is glass. I see my mother walking through or I notice someone coming up behind her They've got a knife in their hand and I just' screaming and screaming and screaming for someone to help her Christa Helm's daughter Nicole doesn't want us to mention her last name or reveal where she lives, because her mother's killer has never been caught. There was a strength and a drive in me that I always felt from a very young age came from her. And I held on to that as my little piece of my mom Okay Where did you come from? She had a charisma that was just overwhelming. She had a warmth that just made people just be drawn to her on a regular basis. Powerful and strong and took no bowl, she was a very complicated, beautiful human being Nays Nicole, her mother was born to be a star. From the time she was a little girl, she would dance and sing and tell everybody she was going to be a movie star when she grew up. And of course, in littleittle Milwaukee, Wisconsin, no one believed her Krista Helm had the kind of story that Hollywood legends are made from Smart, sexy, and stunningly beautiful She was the classic small town girl with a big Hollywood dream. Christa was determined to become a star And she had the energy and unyielding ambition to make it happen I remember her one time saying, Well, Darlene, I'm not going to be a Midwestern housewife Darlene Thorson was Christa's lifelong friend. We had a saying between the two of us, All's fair and love and war And she lived by those words Nothing would really stop her from getting what she wanted. Not even a shotgun wedding when Krista was just seventeen years old. She was a teenager. He owned a karate studio. They were married in Chicago. and the morning after their wedding, she woke up in their honeymoon suite and my father was gone That was back in nineteen sixty seven. Nicole came along a few months later But within a couple of years, Nicole's young and ambitious mother grew restless and took off to follow her dream First stop, the bright lights of New York where she found work as a model Taking the city by storm would be impossible with a toddler in tow, so Nicole was left behind in the care of a good friend Christa promised mother and daughter would one day be together I was supposed to be with her when I turned ten Until then, Nicole was a visitor in her mother's life When I was with her, she made me feel so important the moments that I had with her, really strengthened the belief that, you know, I wasn't. She didn't just throw me away. She was really waiting until I was ten until she felt safe Her modotel good looks and splashy personality made Krista unnatural for New York's party scene in the early seventies She walked in a room. Everyone in the room hadn't stopped to notice her walk in then she would come back in again and get it right Christa's sister, Marisa Rom was also a sometime actress. She was often at Christa's side. Very driven, very ambitious, really young One of the first people Krista met in New York was a wealthy patron of the arts named Stuart Duncan He took an interest in Christa's career, opening doors for her She was throwing parties for big names, the Rolling stones for she actually got bachelorette of the mononth with Cosmopolitan. There were definitely big figures in her life. The Saw Iiran. was she dated, and he sent her jewels Christa also picked up a fancy new best friend for life A lamboyant New York clothing designer named Lenny Baron. She just had him around sort of feeding her sense of stardom, like the entourage And then in nineteen seventy three, Christa got the break she'd been waiting for. Stewart Duncan gave her a starring role in a movie called Let's go for Broke When they were filming it hair and makeup and people just fussing over her all around, and she was in control of the whole scenario, and that was my mom I forgot the customary bow. The movie opened up in Cincinnati in nineteen seventy four promptly closed in just four days Undeterred, a few months later, Christa headed straight for Hollywood But there's only going to be one winner in this contest and you're looking at her. She landed Bit rollles in Wonder Woman. If personal things I'd like to go over with you, it won't take long. And Starsky and Hodge How about an eight by ten glossy of my six foot two boyfriend This always always a great adventure when I'd go to visit my mom Pole remembers visiting her mother at a Beverly Hills home. This was a spectacular mansion. It was absolutely enormous. I'd never seen anything like it. It was the first place I'd ever seen that had maid's quarters This mansion belonged to a famous financier, Bernie Cornfeld who was once profiled by Mike Wallace on sixixty Minutes. Bernie goes no place without companions. prrincipally female, notably attractive and inevitably more than one Sitting on the couch, I was very, very young and there was a big, huge party going on and lots of smoke in the air. And I kept just staring at this fella's lips. They were the most fascinating thing I had ever seen. I just stared and stared and stared. It was Mick Jagger We were hanging out in clubs That warm baby was at Ryan O'Neill, Jack Nicholson if you were a beautiful enough starlet You know, you would get to go into the in in in clubs and so that's where we were usually hanging out Krista was not only ambitious and adventurous, she also liked to keep score Her friends say she kept a secret sex diary Complete with a rating system What she did was she gave it a A rate You know One to ten, so to speak. While Christa partied in Hollywood, Nicole prepared for that much talked about mother daughter reunion It would never happen to Helm was stabbed to death I can still remember it. and it was I couldn't tell if it was a screaming baby or a cat being killed. It was a horrendous horreous scream. It was terrifying. Actor John Gryes was nineteen then. He was staying at his mother's house just down the street from where Christa was attacked. I remember I jumped out of bed, and of course, you know, my father had recently passed away and I had his pistol and I pulled his pistol up I was frightened to death. It sounded like it was happening right here. Gryry stood in his yard but didn't hear anything more or see anything, and went back inside. The next day the sheriff came knocking on the door and they asked if any of us had heard anything unusual in the middle of the night And then they told me that somebody had been murdered And I remember the police officer saying, hadad I walked into the street? And look down, I would have seen her But I only look down the sidewalk. T turnurns out, Gryes had his own connection with Krista. There were a lot of girls like Krista. I met her a couple of times, Beautiful girls who just kind of seemed to work their way through the various corners of Hollywood. The reality hit me that I wasn't going to go have this beautiful life with my mommy that I'd been dreaming about for so long. And I fell to my knees outside of the school and just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed As the detectives started to investigate, they soon realized the case would be very difficult In Christa's complicated life, there were plenty of people who might want to kill her I think that she was a little girl that made it big in Hollywood L girl that knew too much You've got a big day. So you use unstoppable scent boosters to give your laundry non stop freshness. So no matter how long the day goes, you can't stop this power this walk, this pose, d stuct this look, this talk. Your clothes will be so fresh you can confidently strut into that end of the day meeting La. Boss boss boss boss, boss boss, bosses, let's talk business in my office Add new unstoppables beads to your wash for twenty four hour nonstop freshness so you can smell unstoppable What's the business idea you've been putting off because it feels too complicated? 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That's shopify dot com slash pave shhopify. com slash pave I mean, Nicki I'll come back with help ' the only chance for all of us First, detectives thought Christa Helm's murder, that night back in nineteen seventy seven, might be connected to another sensational killing. The stabbing of actctor Selmino, best known for co starring with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause Papers had a field day with the similarities Christa had been stabbed and bludgeoned to death in front of her agent's house in West Hollywood. Mino was murdered one year earlier on the very same day, february twelfth, in the very same neighborhood. There were no known witnesses in either case The salino lead fizzled The suspect in his murder was believed to be in jail when Christa was killed. The twenty one year old murder suspect had to st in his jail cell when advised of his charges last. So detectives started to look more closely at Christa's celebrity studed love life and her infamous diary Research, perhaps for a tell all book. She was some decl to write a book And she was going to expose all these people and it was going to be a best seller Krista's scandalous diary had vanished It may have been in her purse, which was missing from the crime scene ith crucial piece of evidence gone, investigators hit a string of dead ends. I think the initial investigation was a complete mess. I think that they didn't pay attention. She was a young Hollywood starle Party girl Nicole mourned the loss of her mother and the life they were supposed to have together She raised her own family in the Northeast, but a few years ago, she felt compelled to find out what really happened I think that it's my job to make sure that people know who she was and what happened to her She went through way too much in her life to have her death be so Dmissed After years of pressure from Nicole, a new generation of detectives took the case Larry Brandenberurg Tom Harris, for L.A. Sheriff's Department Hot shots Homicide detectives with the Cold case Unit How do you go about investigating a murder that occurred three decades ago Well, actually you try and go back in time yourself. I mean, you try and go back and look at it the way it looked that night When we're talking about us in the middle to late seventies, you know back then it was a lot of the free love, a lot of the seex. Sex, drugsgs. Sex, drugs and rock and roll Krista's written diary wasn't the only way she kept track of that long list of lovers. It turns out Krista was tape recording her sexcaades with all those ceElebrity boyfriends. I promise to cuse you nothing but pleasure She did have some tapes of famous people sexually. There's a well known list of people. Can you tell us any of those names? I don't think it would be fair to those folks at this point to do that. How significant do you consider those tapes? They're a very significant part of this case thing but Because those sex tapes could have supplied a motive for someone to kill Krista We don't know if there may have been extortion or a thought of extortion That scared me a lot. Her friend Darlene warned her against making the tapes. I thought it was dangerous. I thought she was playing with fire him. But here's a shocker. Just like Christa's diary, most of those tapes have also disappeared. for the missing tapes has led detectives to another new twist It's angle right out of the Spranos You're a guy now It's your turn to make some real money. and I get the relax a little. Tony Serico is the actor best known as Pauly Walnut of the Sopranos. But thirty years ago, Serico was a Brooklyn tough guy trying to make it in Hollywood Here he is in a nineteen seventy eight movie, Fingers what's on you, my pal Back in nineteen seventy seven, Tony Sarko was an upcoming actor And he knew some of the same people that Kristin knew We know that after Christa was killed, Tony Serico was sent to her residence to check on the welfare and watch over her roommate for a few days and to make sure that she was okay According to the roommate Tony Serico removed some tapes out of Christher's room never to be seen again. Christa's roommate, who to this day is too frightened to talk publicly, also told detectives that Tony took some of Christa's furs and clothing At the time, police never questioned Tony That's Tony Serico right there with the blood, but that's part of a film they were making But in two thousand six, when the new detectives took over They paid him a visit Have you spoken to him? Yes. We have. Has he been cooperative Exactly mister Sriko told us at first that he didn't even remember the victim He didn't really know Krista and that he didn't even remember that she had been killed. And then his memory got a little bit better that yeah, I think I had heard about her being killed, but I didn't really know her that well. I just met her in passing. According to detectives, Serio denied going to Christa's apartment and denied he even knew the roommate. We started getting to the point of where he was on that day and asked him those type of questions, and the interview was abruptly stopped by his attorney And we explained to Mrter Sriko also that he was not was not a suspect in this investigation. He was considered a witness and someone that we were trying to glean information from Years later, most of Krista's missing things did turn up at the home of Krista's closest friend, Lenny Barron, her designer and confidant All of the furniture, all of the crystals, the shaw I ran had given my mom a lot of crystals and jewels and beautiful things. She had fur coats, all of which were found in his home Police now think it was Lenny who sent Tony Serico to clean out Christa's apartment to protect her. We believe that he didn't want her reputation soiled, didn't want the information out there about her surreptitiously recording people or even her sexual activities If he had so many of her things personal effects Is it possible that he may have been the one who had the audio tapes in the written diary That's possible Possible, but Lenny can't tell us. He died about ten years ago Tony Serico's manager says Tony didn't want to talk to us But there's another new clue This time from Christa's friend, Darlene, who never spoke with police until now. Right before Christa died, she sent Darlene a postcard with a cryptic message. She said, dar I am in way over my head here I'm into something that I can't get out of them Rocky's the one that said that Chris was sitting on three hundred thousand dollars worth of dopears If we could find her, it might be helpful. This is another gentleman. We haven't been able to locate, canan't talk to him because he's dead Without Christa Helm's sex diary to guide them, detectives Tom Harris and Larry Brandenberurg have had to dig deeper to find people who were involved with her. We've got to find Rocky. They've discovered that Christa may well have been in over her head. She had a lifestyle that was provocative She had a lot of upscale friends that were famous some of them. And then she also had a lot of friends that were on the seedy side of life, if you will, street people. So Job one has been tracking down all those people Christa socialized with in her two years in Hollywood. If someone is violently murdered You're never going to forget them So far though, few of them remember much, or are saying much It's very interesting to go back and talk to these people because people can't remember what their lives were Can remember what the truth is The neighborhood they responded to in nineteen seventy seven was a pretty upscale neighborhood. I was the lead detective on the case. I think we came in from this direction. We drove in this way. Brandenberurg and Harris returned to the crime scene with the one witness who is happy to cooperate. She was probably about like this Okay. eightighty three year old retired Los Angeles detective, Larry Ganzy. Earrings. She had earrings on. I know that. They're hoping to jog the memory of the original investigator. She had no identification. We don't know who is it. About the night, Christa died. We found out that she was a party girl. She had come from a party with a girlfriend She was headed over to see her agent, Sandy Smith The house looks the same now. It's a dead ended. It doesn exactly. This is me right here. They also opened the box of evidence Ganzi started thirty one years ago Bringing back some memories? Well, yeah, ye She was bleeding quite profusely there. You could see that she had numerous stab wounds in the chest Our thoughts then we had a rage killing that somebody was really upset with this girl. What strikes you is God or unusual or interesting about this case Well, the way she was attacked It really sticks out. It was violent. A lot of passion involved She was stabbed twenty two times. Tw two times. Y. Bludgeoned. And bludgeoned also. This doesn't strike you as a random act of violence No would be more of Somebody was very mad at her There was a side to Christa that seemed to provoke people foundound almost charming. Because while many thought she was a barely passable actress on camera, Off camera, she was an infamous drama queen Krista was the role of her lifetime. She loved The Daily drama. One of her recurring dramas starred her beautiful and younger sister, Marisa Who learned the hard way the lengths Krista would go to We'd party together and we'd go to this party and that party. I was excited. I was meeting this actor and dating that actor and they were calling me And she knew that and was really upset that it was me. When she started to see that I was attracting more attention than her, that started to wear on her In an apparent jealous rage, Christa cut her sister off and threw her out of the apartment. And She basically said, OkayK, now you're out on your own. She didn't care if I didn't have any money or place to live. That sounds like there was a very cold side to her. Oh, just a definite cold cut it off and get back in her own world and push you aside. Would she step over bodies to get what she wanted? Would she use people? Yes I would say so Is that possible that that has played into what happened to her I've always presumed that that was a part of what happened to her Harrison Brandenberg thinks so too wonder if Krista might finally have crossed the wrong man As they dig deeper into the case, they find a startling confession of sorts. This guy bragged about doing a killing His name, Rudy Mzellk And he was known for his anythingthing goes parties where Christo was a frequent guest He's very flamboyant Very strange He would do certain things like wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and a gun belt with a six gun on it And that's the way he walked around the house. But Mzella was also a known drug dealer. He was a thug Bad reputation He's a violent kind of guy. He's known to carry guns and knives. We spoke to his ex wife deathly afraid of him said that he would threaten her So what was Christa doing with him? He was in that other circle of friends, what we call the dark side of her life, the street people, the drug dealers that would come to these parties. Rudy is a pretty big guy, pretty powerful and scary guy. In this interview in July of nineteen seventy seven, a woman who frequented Mzella's house told police what she had heard about him. My boyfriend told me Rudy had told him that he had murdered Christa He didn't give a reason, but he said that he had murder prista And was that followed up on back then? They did question Rudy. Yes. they questioned he denied any involvement was the kind of guy that would brag about things that maybe he didn't do just to get some notoriety and to boost his standing with people. With no other evidence, time Melllla to the crime original investigators left it at that. Was he serious? We don't know, because the person he bragged to is deceased and and so is Rudy, so we can't talk to either one of them anymore. And now, three decades later, the Coldcase squad can only wonder. Is there any other lead? I don't know that we can actually eliminate anybody at this point It does seem like something or someone had Christa spooked My last visit with her, she had actually said that she was leaving Hollywood Cole now believes her mother realized she was in some kind of danger I think that the fight just got to be a little too difficult for her. It got ugly. There were a lot of dark people and dark lifestyles that she didn't really want to be part of Hey, it's Jen Hatmaker. Here's what I've learned in midlife. Joy isn't the reward you earn after all the work is done Joy is the work. That's what this new series on for the Love is all about. The sacred yes. It's choosing delight, rest, and pleasure on purpose because saying yes to yourself, that's the thing that finally lets you fill your table with everybody else. Come find your sacred yes with me. Follow and listen to for the Love wherever you get your podcasts Thty one years into the Christa Helm case, detectives Larry Brandenberurg and Tom Harris have uncovered a long string of boyfriends and girlfriends that Christa left in her wake. They now suspect jealousy may have been a motive in her murder We've identified people that she was involved with who had other girlfriends And those girlfriends found out about Krista There were a couple of other females that we believe that she was involved with sexually, that were upset because she would be with men. So she had relationships with both men and women. Yes. And felt no compunction or loyalty to be with any one person.. And no one person was off limits to her. Yeah, I mean, that was her lifestyle The detectives are now focusing on Christa's final stab at fame, a recording session she set up in the winter of nineteen seventy seven. Good morning dance, dance, dance child. They've gotten a first handand account of the session from backup singer Debbie Danelo She and Christa became good friends Once in a while you meet someone and it's like you've known them forever Soulmates, maybe. And when I met Christa, it was like she was an instant soul sister. The detectives now believe that the session exploded in a storm of jealousy and betrayal This began when Christa apparently got involved with the records producer. ten the twenty five Well known DJ Frankie Crocker. The fast ranky in the city. And I think that she was probably a boyfriend or sleeping with him He had a beautiful Beverly Hills mansion and Part of the music scene, part of the party crowd. And what was he like Oh, I'm very full of himself, rich I'm somebody in Hollywood. You're not. Debbie says Christa flaunted the relationship I remember that day telling Christa, I said, I don't think that It's going to work out With Frankie because I don't think he likes the way I'm handling the the songs And she said, donon't worry about Frankie gotot him by the balls Debbie also claims Christa was having an affair with the other backup singer Her name was Patty Collins. Patty didn't like to share. Patty was very, very jealous of Anyone being around Krista Very jealous. Very, you know, just watch your step kind of thing. As if things weren't complicated enough, the sessions' keyboard player, Blair Aronsson, has told detectives that he was casually involved with Debbie We were told originally that they were boyfriend, girlfriend Some come back and say maybe casual dating Some come back and say, well, that you know, they were a pretty heavy item I believe that Debbie had a more serious commitment to Blair than Blaair did to Debbie. Then Blair dropped a bombshell. He told detectives that he slept with Christa the night before she died. and that Debbie caught him We interviewed Blair Aronsson and he explained to us that he and Christa had spent the night together, were in bed and they got up. We werere sitting on the edge of the bed and happened to look over and saw Debbie looking through the window waving at him. Blair and Christ were startled, obviously by seeing her outside the window, but they laughed about it and she ran away Debbie adamantly denies any involvement with Blire or that she saw him in bed with Christa, and Blire declined to speak to forty eight hours, but detectives find the entire recording session suspicious Especially since Debbie and Pattty were both abruptly pushed out It seems Patty took the news especially hard. And apparently she was very upset about it at that time. We don't know if she was removed by Frankie Crocker or by Christa herself. When Debbie talked to the original investigators about Krista, she pointed the finger squarely at Patty I told him that she had a a female lover that seemed she was extremely jealous. That was my first thought that maybe Her female lover killed her because Every time that I was around her, She seems so threatened and so dark Days after Christa's murder, Debbie packed up her entire LA life, disguised herself in a wig, and then made a mad dash out of town. I didn't want anybody to know who I was I was afraid that somebody had killed her because she knew something, she wasn't supposed to know thought Well what if they think she told me? You know Never been around anybody that had been Murdered And I just wanted to be away from it Frankie Crocker is now dead Still, the Col K squad is left to wonder Christa's killer have been a woman. It just seems like a pretty violent, really vicious attack for a woman. I don't think I would characterize it as that I think when somebody is in a violent rage I think their gender doesn't matter Then investigators get a break. One of Christa's fingernails preserved for three decades yields DNA It's obvious to us that she put up quite a fight And a lot of times in this situation You're going to find skin cells or blood or something from the other person under the fingernails Even more intriguing, that DNA is from another woman. Did you try to match the DNA to a specific person? Well, we are requesting from people that we interview at times, we're requesting oral swabs One of those people is Debbie Danelo. Do you consider Debbie Danelo a suspect? Everyone's still a suspect. All too often, you're lucky of what you see is what you get But in the Lexis ES, every detail leads to so much more Light playing off intricate panels seats that cradle you space you want to relax into. 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Lving such a maha Rember That's that question Why my God would forsake me? Debbie Danelow put Hollywood and Christa Helm behind her many years ago. But she never really got over the murder that struck so close to home It changed me. changed the way I looked at everybody in the group. You know, you start looking around going, who did it Who did this? Who could have done this? You know and It's scary And then recently, out of the blue, she got a letter from Christa's daughter, Nicole. And it said, Hi, my name is Nicole I think you knew my mother as Christa Helm And I am trying to find out information about her because I didn't know her Shortly afterwards, Debbie heard from the cold case squad Of course they had gotten my name from Nicole And they said, canan we talk to you? I said, S But detectives Harrison Brandenberurg didn't just want Debbie's memories, they wanted her DNA And what they really wanted to know was if it matched the scrapings they had found under Christa's fingernails. We did collect DNA from Debbie Danelo, and it was not her DNA was under the fingernails. So now I'm letting go There is no other evidence tying Debbie to the murder either And she has told police she had nothing to do with it Tom and I are in agreement. Debbie Danlo is is much farther down on the scale as a person of interest in this case now With the help of an anonymous tip The Colke squad finally tracked down The woman they believe was Christa's girlfriend, Patty Collins Patty and Christa had a relationship according to more than one person They had a close sexual relationship and a professional relationship. At some point, they had a falling out with one another. It looks like, according to these people, and was it serious enough for a murder We don't know that But we'd like to talk to Patty about that.