Young woman in a Christmas elf costume with a bloodstain on the left chest and a red-stained butcher knife on the floor beside her

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Investigation Day 1

Sunday night, around 10:30, Bonnie Duncan saw a black SUV smash her neighbor's mailbox and drive away. She immediately called 911 to report the incident.

When the officer attempted to contact the occupants of the residence with the damaged mailbox, he made a very un-merry discovery.

Investigation Day 2

The next morning, as the local press launched its coverage of this tragic holiday murder, YCSD investigators began to gather information about the victim.

While Detectives Armstrong and Murphy were talking to Bonnie Duncan, who was the victim's friend as well as the 911 caller, CSU sent over a preliminary inventory of the evidence they'd collected so far from the crime scene.