Doctor’s Orders | 2. Mystery Woman

Summary

The Binge Cases: Doctor's Orders | Episode 2: Mystery Woman – Detailed Summary

Release Date: August 8, 2025
Host: Ben Adair, Sony Music Entertainment

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Introduction

In the gripping second episode of "Doctor's Orders," part of The Binge series, host Ben Adair delves deep into the mysterious 2008 murder of Juliana Redding. The case intricately weaves elements of personal relationships, fraud, and forensic evidence, presenting listeners with a narrative that challenges initial assumptions and leaves lingering questions about the true mastermind behind the crime.

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Background: Juliana Redding and Munir Ueda

Juliana Redding, a young aspiring actress and model from Santa Monica, California, met Munir Ueda a few months prior to her tragic death. Munir, an orthopedic surgeon and successful businessman involved in real estate, became Juliana's employer and provided her with luxurious accommodations, including a mansion in Beverly Hills and a white Range Rover. Their professional relationship soon drew rumors of a romantic involvement, though friends like Jessica, Juliana's childhood friend, did not initially perceive any romantic undertones.

Jessica: "Again, it wasn't until Vegas. It wasn't that it was. I thought he liked her. It wasn't anything sexual."
(Timestamp: 03:00)

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The Vegas Trip: Unveiling Red Flags

In July 2007, six months before Juliana's murder, Munir organized a lavish 21st birthday trip to Las Vegas for Juliana and her friends. While the trip was meant to be a memorable celebration, Jessica began noticing unsettling behavior in Munir. She questioned his apparent age discrepancy and found his demeanor "a little creepy."

Jessica: "I just knew he was not 28 when I saw him, or he was a really ugly 28."
(Timestamp: 03:43)

During the trip, tension escalated when Juliana discovered Munir had lied about his age and was already married. Despite feeling betrayed, Juliana insisted on continuing the trip. Their stay at the Wynn Hotel began harmoniously but soon deteriorated. After a heated argument, Juliana stormed out with her suitcase, leading her friends to follow, never to return.

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Investigation: Forensic Breakthrough

The murder scene revealed extensive DNA evidence, astonishingly identifying a female DNA profile that initially baffled investigators. At first, no matches were found in law enforcement databases, leading detectives to scrutinize individuals connected to Munir and Juliana.

Ben Adair: "Detectives dig into her work with Munir. Next, they get a search warrant to obtain Kelly Supark's fingerprints."
(Timestamp: 18:02)

Eventually, after two years of meticulous investigation, detectives identified Kelly Sue Park, a 44-year-old Korean American woman connected to Munir's organization, as a suspect. Her fingerprints matched those found at the crime scene, including on a front door, stove knob, and even on Juliana's neck.

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Arrest of Kelly Sue Park

In June 2010, Kelly Sue Park was apprehended and charged with Juliana's murder. The prosecution portrayed her as Munir's enforcer, claiming she was paid substantial sums to intimidate Juliana into persuading her father, Greg Redding—a pharmacist in Arizona—to join Munir's company, Golden State Pharmaceuticals. However, Munir had been elusive, having fled to Lebanon just before Kelly's arrest, making him a distant figure in court proceedings.

Jessica: "And I think initially the onset was, was this some, like, jealous girl who was jealous of her?"
(Timestamp: 21:34)

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The Trial: A Clash of Evidence and Defense

The trial, commencing in May 2013, presented a formidable challenge for the prosecution. Despite the compelling DNA evidence, the defense, led by renowned attorney George Bueller, cast doubt on the motive and the interpretation of the forensic data. Bueller argued that the presence of Kelly's DNA could be explained by her previous interaction with Juliana and Munir, suggesting that the DNA did not conclusively place her at the scene of the murder.

George Bueller: "There's a perfect explanation for why there could be DNA on all the most pivotal parts of the crime scene."
(Timestamp: 36:17)

The prosecution's inability to solidly connect Kelly to Dr. Munir Ueda's broader scam operation weakened their case. Additionally, critical arguments, such as portraying Kelly as an enforcer, were dismissed by the judge due to lack of direct evidence, further undermining the prosecution's narrative.

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Verdict and Aftermath

After a week-long deliberation, the jury delivered a shocking verdict: Not Guilty on both first-degree and second-degree murder charges.

Alana Hadid: "And when both of them were red, I was shocked out of my very skin. I was shocked."
(Timestamp: 39:00)

The courtroom erupted in chaos, with Juliana's friends and family expressing their outrage and disbelief. The defense celebrated the acquittal, leaving the prosecution and Juliana's loved ones grappling with unanswered questions.

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Ongoing Mysteries and Theories

Despite Kelly Sue Park's acquittal, investigations remained unresolved. Munir Ueda remained a fugitive, having fled to Lebanon, which lacks an extradition treaty with the United States. Speculations arose about his potential involvement or orchestration of the crime, but definitive evidence remained elusive.

Alana Hadid: "It's pretty wild for a treating doctor of workers compensation cases to be a person of interest in a murder case and then flee the country."
(Timestamp: 25:01)

Jack Leonard, a former LA Times journalist, and Lance Lamont, a fraud investigator, both contributed insights into the complexities of the case, highlighting discrepancies and potential cover-ups that continue to fuel theories about the true perpetrator behind Juliana's murder.

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Conclusion

"Doctor's Orders" Episode 2, "Mystery Woman," masterfully unravels a case fraught with misdirection, forensic intrigue, and the haunting ambiguity of unresolved justice. As listeners are left pondering the true motives and identities behind Juliana Redding's untimely death, the episode underscores the often-complex interplay between evidence, perception, and the quest for truth in the realm of true crime.

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Notable Quotes:

• Jessica on Munir's Behavior:
  "I just knew he was not 28 when I saw him, or he was a really ugly 28."
  (00:03:43)

• Kelly Sue Park on the Trial's Turning Point:
  "So George got up there and he said, there's a perfect explanation for why there could be DNA on all the most pivotal parts of the crime scene."
  (00:36:17)

• Alana Hadid on the Verdict:
  "And when both of them were red, I was Shocked out of my very skin. I was shocked."
  (00:39:00)

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This episode not only sheds light on a perplexing true crime case but also invites listeners to consider the broader implications of justice, evidence interpretation, and the often unseen forces that influence legal outcomes.

Transcript

[Jessica]

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[Ben Adair]

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[Jessica]

So Juliana and I are four days apart. My birthday is October 21st. She's October 25th.

[Ben Adair]

This is Jessica, Juliana Redding's childhood friend. She's telling us some important things that happened in October 2007 with Juliana's boss or boyfriend or both. The Dr. Munir Ueda. They'd met a few months earlier in July.

[Jessica]

And So for our 21st birthdays, we all kind of came up with, you know, everybody wants to do a big 21st. So we did. I did a. Had a party here in San Diego, and at my birthday, she had mentioned for hers she wanted to do Vegas.

[Ben Adair]

This is about six months before Juliana was murdered.

[Jessica]

And she said, my boss, maybe she said, is. Maneer is going to. He's put together a birthday party for me in Vegas, and he's gonna fly us out there, and he's taking care of the hotel, and he's got. He's planned like, a whole fun weekend surprise weekend for me. And so, like my friends and so myself and Juliana and two other girls, we're going with Juliana for this Vegas trip.

[Ben Adair]

At this time, Munir is Juliana's boss. She's his highly paid assistant. He is an orthopedic surgeon and a businessman. He's also into real estate. He's given Juliana a place to live, a mansion in Beverly Hills, and a car to drive a white Range Rover. And for her 21st birthday, he was offering a private plane from Santa Monica, California, to Las Vegas, her and her friends, a suite at the Win, all expenses paid. So Juliana asked Jessica and two other besties to come along. Although several people did tell me that Juliana was romantically involved with Munir. Jessica says it didn't seem romantic, not then.

[Jessica]

Again, it wasn't until Vegas. It wasn't that it was. I thought they were Having a relationship. It was that I thought he liked her. It wasn't anything sexual. It wasn't like what she saw. And she gave him a kiss. They didn't even make out, you know, like, there was no, like, I think, like, if there is a relationship, like a kiss, like something romantic. They weren't heavily. Like she wasn't sitting on his lap.

[Ben Adair]

This was the first time and the last time Jessyca would meet Munir. So they all meet at the Santa Monica airport. And very quickly, Jessica starts to question, is she seeing red flags here? For example, Jessica says that Munir had told Juliana that he was 28 years old.

[Jessica]

I just knew he was not 28 when I saw him, or he was a really ugly 28. And you can put that on the record. And that's when I started to be like, this guy's a little creepy.

[Ben Adair]

There's a photo from this trip on the private plane. There's Juliana and her friends in the foreground. They're smiling out of focus.

[Alana Hadid]

Hold.

[Ben Adair]

Holding up their glasses for a cheers. Munir sits behind them, disengaged. He's looking away, talking into his cell phone with a very serious expression on his face.

[Jessica]

Juliana had found out that Munir was not the age she had claimed.

[Ben Adair]

Just before this birthday trip, like, in the hours before this birthday trip, Juliana got a call. Someone had been digging on her behalf. And Munir, she learned, was not who he said he was, that he had.

[Jessica]

A wife, and that earrings he had given her were actually fake. So she was really upset. But it was still her 21st birthday at midnight, and she wanted to still go to Vegas. So me being the party pooper that I am sometimes, I. I said, let's not go with him to Vegas. Let's do our own trip. But the time she didn't want to cancel her birthday. We had another friend meeting us already who was en route, and so she wanted to still go on with the birthday. And I'm like, are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure? And she's like, it's going to be fine. You know, like. And we weren't again, like, I've never met the guy. I'm not thinking twice. I'm just like, want to make sure she's happy. She's just mad, though. You can tell. She was like. She was hurt.

[Ben Adair]

But this wasn't just a trip to Vegas. It was a trip to Vegas.

[Jessica]

So we got off the flight. He had a limo waiting for us. And we took the limo to, I think it was the Wynn Hotel. It was a nice hotel. He had, like, three. It was like this giant suite where there was, like, a huge living room, and then we had our own rooms. And again, if they were in a relationship, I don't know why she wasn't staying in a room with him. Cause she was staying with us. Because. Cause this place was huge. We changed. We had some cocktails and we went.

[Ben Adair]

Downstairs to dinner, but Juliana couldn't just get over it.

[Jessica]

After dinner, when we went upstairs, she started to argue with Maneer, and she was just really upset. And he was not yelling at her. Looking back, he was, like, eerily calm in a weird way. Like, it wasn't, like a normal response to a person who was that distraught. It was, like, a little too calm, a little too put together. And so Juliana comes, and she's not a person. I really can't. Right. This is probably one of the only times I've ever seen her cry like this, ever. And again, it's. Because it's like, it's her 21st birthday at midnight, and I think, you know, you have all these big expectations, and so I think she was really excited for this trip, and I think she was excited to, you know, have fun. And so she comes in the room and she grabs her suitcase, and she's. And she's just like, we're leaving. So she, like, storms out with her suitcase. And so as girls grab our suitcases, and he's like, tell her I want to make sure this is supposed to be your birthday. I'll do anything. Like, let her know, like, not any. Like, I'll, like, fix it. Let me how I can fix it. Like, we all grab our suitcases, and we're like, don't worry. We'll be right back. And we go, like, with our suitcases. We're running after Juliana, and obviously we never came back.

[Ben Adair]

But that was not the end of things. I'm Ben Adair from Sony Music Entertainment and Western Sound. You're listening to Doctor's Orders. This is episode two, Mystery Woman. The detectives investigating Juliana's murder are also wondering, who is this guy? Munir Uwayda. Here's what we know. Munir is from Lebanon in the Middle East. He went to school there. He graduated both undergrad and medical school from the American University of Beirut. I found one of his old resumes, and it says he finished undergrad in 1987. So you figure he was 22ish around then. That would mean he was born in 1965. So if I get my math right, he would have been 40, 41, 42 on the day of that photo on the private jet. That's not 28. In the early 90s, he came to the U.S. he did his medical residencies on the east coast and also went to the Wharton school and at UPenn to get his MBA. So he's ambitious. And by the mid 2000s, he's established himself in California with a portfolio of very successful medical businesses. He's not just a doctor, but also an entrepreneur. Friends tell the police about this trip to Vegas and what happened next. After leaving Munir, Juliana and her friends ran around the Strip with their suitcases and finally ended up at the Rio. Not their first choice.

[Jessica]

We went from Dom Perignon and caviar to the Rio Buffet in less than 12 hours.

[Ben Adair]

Juliana woke up early, got on a Southwest flight back home.

[Jessica]

She wanted to get back. She wanted to move out even that early in the morning. Meneer had already had the car confiscated, and so she didn't have her car, and she was, like, locked out of her house. She only found her one dog, Gigi. Her dog Baron, we've never found. It's very shady.

[Ben Adair]

Over the next few months, Juliana would have to find a new place to live. She went back to her old job working at the Venice restaurant. She went back to driving her own car. She did talk to Munir. She did somehow get some of her clothes back. But she never found Baron, her other dog.

[Jessica]

The thing that's really screwed up is the dog situation, and that's what kind of all threw us off. Why is her dog gone? Supposedly that someone let him out, but he, like, never appeared in any shelters. And this is, like, Beverly Hills, so it almost makes you wonder, in hindsight, like, if he did something to the dog. Um, you know, it's funny. It's like, none of us took things as seriously as we do now. Again, age, experience. So I think at the time, when I look back, there was no immediate danger. It was more, ew, like, he's older. Ew. He's a liar. Like, ew, no. So it wasn't really talked about in, like, a. You need to get away from him. He's this and that. It was more like, he's like, he sucks because he, like, took your car. So she went and got the diamonds tested, and they were actually real. So that started to kind of make the story that she had been told maybe seem not true and the facts not be true. And I think, like, what he explained the marriage because they were divorced, and so it wasn't relevant. I Think or something is what I remember. It was like he explained his way out of said accusations again. The diamonds then supposedly being real really kind of made that.

[Ben Adair]

Right. That was like concrete evidence.

[Jessica]

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So then she was like, okay, maybe I overreacted. Oh, I saw her again. Back to Vegas in January. Because we're insane. I'm just kidding.

[Ben Adair]

Since the birthday trip to Vegas was a flop, Juliana and her friends decided they needed a redo. This time without munir.

[Jessica]

So that was a funny joke. We're like, we are going to complete a trip to Vegas. It is going to be a good trip to Vegas, because, like, we cannot let Vegas not be fun. Actually, one of my favorite memories. It was so cute. It was like one of the last times. This was the last time I saw her. And so again, we're in all those big suites and. And we have our own. And she and I are sharing a room, and we have our own queen size comfy beds and warm bed after going out. And she gets in bed with me, and she snuggles up next to me. I'm like, what are you doing? You have your own bed over there. She's like, but, Jesse, I love you. I want to be near you. I'm like, oh, my God. Scoot over a little bit then. And like, we were just, like, cracking up then and, like, telling stories and just. I just remember just dying. Laughing for hours and then passing out. It was just. It's funny, you take for granted those little moments in the moment. Cause I was one of the last times. Oh, it makes me sad. It's like one of the last times I saw her. It was just so cute. And she's like, jesse, I love you. It's just sad. Just feel like we take for granted so much sometimes.

[Ben Adair]

After Juliana was murdered, the police lab started coming back with results. And all that meticulous work the detectives had done in the apartment paid off because it turned out there was a lot of DNA all over Juliana's apartment, and a lot of it did not belong to her. One sequence of DNA stood out. Police found it on Juliana's front door. They found it on the stove knob used to turn on the gas. They found it on the front and back of Juliana's T shirt, and they found it on Juliana's neck. And all that DNA belonged to one person. They ran the sequence through law enforcement databases, and nothing. But they could tell one thing. And that thing shocked everyone. The DNA, assumed to be the killers belonged to a woman.

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[Kelly Sue Park]

I'm Jack Leonard. For 27 years, I worked at the Los Angeles Times. For about six years, I was the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts reporter.

[Ben Adair]

When Juliana was murdered, Jack Leonard heard the news from his colleagues but didn't give it much thought.

[Kelly Sue Park]

So Juliana Redding. Nobody had heard of Juliana Redding when she was killed. I mean, no one but her family and her friends.

[Ben Adair]

But the more he learned, the more interested he became.

[Kelly Sue Park]

You had a young aspiring model, aspiring actress, who comes to Santa Monica to make her fortune and become famous. It was just a classic go west type of story. And I think that was intriguing.

[Ben Adair]

He remembers the early days, the different theories around the crime. You know, you always suspect the boyfriend, husband or partner, whether it's John Gilmour or Manir Ueda. So the twist made it even more intriguing.

[Kelly Sue Park]

Most of the cases that I covered, it was pretty clear who did it, and it was a real whodunit. They find this mysterious DNA on the clothing that Juliana Renning is wearing on her cell phone, which she has used to try and make a 911 call. Or someone has tried to make a 911 call with it on the stove knob on the inside door, and there's no sign of a break in. And on her throat, most importantly. And so for months, police are trying to work out who this DNA belongs to.

[Ben Adair]

Eventually, they start looking at other employees at the various places Juliana worked, including employees at the various companies owned by Munir Yueda.

[Kelly Sue Park]

And they start checking friends, people who knew Juliana Redding.

[Ben Adair]

Not everyone gives their DNA willingly. So they got samples from wine glasses, cigarettes, straws, towels. In the end, they gather 42 DNA samples.

[Kelly Sue Park]

I think they went through more than 40 women before they finally set upon one person.

[Ben Adair]

How long does it take? Almost two years. And that's when they find someone who looks intriguing, Possible.

[Kelly Sue Park]

And that was Kelly Sue Park.

[Ben Adair]

It gets a little cloak and dagger. A Santa Monica detective named Karen Thompson starts tailing this 44 year old Korean American woman who held a sort of nebulous role in Uwayda's organization.

[Kelly Sue Park]

They're following her around, and she drops a cigarette butt.

[Ben Adair]

Notes to would be suspects in crimes. Don't smoke. It's bad for you.

[Kelly Sue Park]

They pick it up, they analyze it, and it matches the DNA that was in Juliana Redding's apartment.

[Ben Adair]

It matches the DNA on the door, it matches the DNA on the cell phone, and it matches the DNA on Juliana Redding's neck.

[Kelly Sue Park]

They firm up her as a suspect.

[Ben Adair]

Detectives dig into her work with Munir. Next, they get a search warrant to obtain Kelly Supark's fingerprints. Homicide detective Michael Bambrick tracks Kelly to a parking lot in Camarillo, California. He recorded the interaction.

[Detective Michael Bambrick]

Search warrant. We're investigating the murder that occurred in Santa Monica. What, 2008? Well, we're investigating. We're investigating the murder of Juliana Redding. And during investigation, your name came up. So my partner, Detective Thompson, got a search warrant signed by a judge to take your finger fence. Okay, you're not under arrest. All right? I know it's a little starling. You're not under arrest. We're just here to take a finger fence and, and send you on your way.

[Jack Leonard]

I don't even know this person.

[Ben Adair]

Who is this person? Wait, wait, wait, guys, I, I, I want to call my attorney.

[Alana Hadid]

Oh, my God.

[Ben Adair]

Kelly refuses to give them her fingerprints. She says she wants to call a lawyer. But Officer Bambrick Sundays you have two choices.

[Detective Michael Bambrick]

Either submitted the search warrant.

[Jessica]

No.

[Detective Michael Bambrick]

It's a court order signed by a judge. Or I will arrest you. Listen to me. Or I have to arrest you for not complying with a court order.

[Ben Adair]

Okay, But Kelly does not comply.

[Detective Michael Bambrick]

Okay. Okay. I'm just going to put your hands on your back and put your hands on your neck. You're now under arrest for a violation of a court order. I explained to you.

[Ben Adair]

This was June 2010, more than two years after Juliana's murder. At the station, they fingerprint Kelly Park. They compare those prints to what they found in Juliano's apartment. There's one match.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I remember. I think her brother called me and told me that they arrested somebody, and it was a woman and was like, what? And I was like, what's her name?

[Ben Adair]

When Juliana's friends and family heard that a woman named Kelly sue park was arrested for Juliana's murder, they were. Well, they were shocked.

[Alana Hadid]

Who?

[Ben Adair]

This is Juliana's childhood friend, Jessica.

[Jessica]

And then he gave me her name, and I was like, who the hell.

[Ben Adair]

Who the hell is that?

[Jessica]

Yeah, like, I have. No, I never heard of her. So I think initially the onset was, was this some, like, jealous girl who was jealous of her?

[Lance Lamont]

I had never heard her name out of Juliana's mouth, Alana, Hadid, or anyone else's mouth before that day.

[Jessica]

I, I was sh.

[Ben Adair]

Shocked.

[Jessica]

I was. Yeah, I was really shocked.

[Ben Adair]

This was not what anyone expected.

[Jessica]

As a society, you don't think of, like, woman on woman crime like that. Initially, you think angry lover at first or crazy homeless person or something like.

[Ben Adair]

That, and it left them all questioning. Yes, Kelly sue park worked for Munir Uwayda. But where was Munir Ueda? Want more True Crime? Subscribe to the binge to get all episodes of Doctor's Orders ad free today and get instant access to over 50 other jaw dropping true crime stories. Plus, subscribers get a binge drop of a brand new series on the 1st of every month ad free. Search for the binge channel on Apple Podcasts or head to getthebinge.com to subscribe today the Binge Feed your true crime.

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[Ben Adair]

Kelly sue park was charged with the murder of Juliana Redding. Dr. Munir Yeda fled the country.

[Alana Hadid]

Dr. Uwayda smelled it. I don't know how, but he figured it out and he fled back to Lebanon and evaded arrest.

[Ben Adair]

This is Lance Lamont. She's a journalist and runs the website adjustercom.net. her regular beat is fraud in the insurance industry, but someone tipped her off to a certain doctor whose name had come up in a very different context.

[Alana Hadid]

I thought this is pretty wild. It's pretty wild for a treating doctor of workers compensation cases to be a person of interest in a murder case and then flee the country. That's pretty suspicious. That sounds like mafia stuff. It sounds like crime. It surprised me and shocked me. So Larry Kennedy wrote this article. I edited it. Basically it was just matter of fact fact. This is what happened. His driver drove him to Mexico. He got on a flight from Mexico. He flew to Lebanon. That's where he is now.

[Ben Adair]

Lebanon does not have an extradition agreement with the United States. So effectively anyone there is out of reach of the American criminal justice system. Kelly sue park seemed to be on.

[Alana Hadid]

Her own Kelly sue park began appearing in court.

[Ben Adair]

But in court, prosecutors alleged that Kelly sue park was not on her own during pretrial hearings. Prosecutors say she was paid $250,000 by Munir Uwayda just three weeks before Juliana was killed. And Park's family received another payment, they say, of $113,400 in the days just before her arrest. And there was another detail that became public.

[Alana Hadid]

The prosecution argued that Kelly sue park didn't know Juliana Redding. She showed up at her door because she wanted to talk her into argue with her to convince her father to be a pharmacist from Munir Uaydes.

[Ben Adair]

Juliana's father, Greg Redding, is a pharmacist in Arizona. And exhibits eventually filed in court showed that for several months before Juliana's murder, Munir was courting him, trying to get him to move to California and work for him. According to media reports at the time, Munir was offering Greg a salary of $400,000 a year. The court filings we obtained for this podcast include a series of letters around the potential employment of Greg Redding at a company called Golden State Pharmaceuticals, which which prosecutors said was controlled by Munir. Golden State Pharma wanted to hire Greg as a lead pharmacist to oversee the mixing and manufacturing of medicine. Shortly before Juliana's death, Greg's lawyers got a letter from Golden State Pharma saying the employment proposal had been withdrawn. Greg's lawyers responded with, well, our client wasn't planning on taking the job anyway because Golden State Pharmacy, that doesn't seem to be on, quote, unquote, solid legal footing. Five days later, Juliana was dead. One theory presented during the trial was.

[Alana Hadid]

That Yoada and Kelly sue park wanted Greg Redding in the worst way. So when Greg Redding turned them down, they got angry. And Kelly sue park went over to Juliana Redding's house, her bungalow in Santa Monica, in order to bully her into talking her father into working for Dr. Ewaid.

[Ben Adair]

We tried to reach Greg Redding for this podcast, but never heard back. Lance has a theory on what happened.

[Alana Hadid]

This is my imagination speaking now. That's why Kelly sue park went to the bungalow in order to talk her into it. And narcissistic rage took over. There's nothing more than certain narcissistic people want than money, money, money, money.

[Ben Adair]

In pretrial hearings, prosecutors said that Kelly worked for Munir as a kind of debt collector and enforcer, that she used intimidation to forward Munir's business interests. And that's what she was doing when she went to Juliana. Santa Monica Bungalow. They say Munir called her his, quote, unquote, female James Bond. You see that in the press stories all over the place. Female James Bond. The defense denied these claims.

[Alana Hadid]

The judge said that she could not receive any bail from Dr. Yehuda. Her bail had to come from a different source. It couldn't be from someone who is complicit in the case. The bail was $1 million to start, and then I believe it went up to $3 million. She got the money eventually through her mother, through relatives, through connections in Korea. They couldn't connect these people to Dr. Uweita, but many were suspected of having some connection. But it couldn't be proven. The judge couldn't come up with any solid evidence that they were connected to Ueda.

[Ben Adair]

So after a few months in custody, Kelly sue park was out on bail of $3.5 million. It took almost three years from Kelly's arrest for trial to start in May 2013. By this point, the case was big news on local tv. The jury will likely be seated today.

[Kelly Sue Park]

In the case of a woman dubbed the Female James Bond.

[Ben Adair]

Tall and strikingly good looking. Her name is Kelly sue park and.

[Jessica]

She'S on trial for the murder of.

[Kelly Sue Park]

21 year old Juliana Redding, an aspiring model and actress seen in this.

[Lance Lamont]

Her family and friends and myself would always meet at the church right near the courthouse before the trial. And we would say a prayer for Juliana and for Jeff and then walk over to the trial.

[Ben Adair]

Juliana's friend Alana Hadid attended almost every day of the trial.

[Lance Lamont]

We were always praying for her. She was very religious and loved God and loved church and it was really important part of her life. And so it was something we wanted to do while her story was being told.

[Kelly Sue Park]

There were two really important decisions before the trial that the judge made. One really hurt the prosecution.

[Ben Adair]

This is former LA Times journalist Jack Leonard.

[Kelly Sue Park]

Again, the prosecution's case was built on the idea that Kelly sue park was the muscle. She was the enforcer for Dr. Uada. The judge said that there really wasn't any evidence that Kelly Sue park park had been committing the kind of crime that was, was inflicting the kind of violence that the prosecution was saying she had inflicted on Juliana Reddick. So the judge said, no, you can't use that argument. I'm not going to allow you to argue that Kelly sue park was an enforcer for Dr. Ueda. That really hurt the prosecution because the prosecution's whole case revolved around this shadow that wasn't in the court, Dr. Uada. And without being able to really say why Kelly sue park would have been operating for Dr. Ueda. There was a big hole in their case.

[Ben Adair]

The other decision the judge made was against the defense.

[Kelly Sue Park]

The defense wanted to argue that the boyfriend may well have committed the murder, but the judge wouldn't allow that.

[Ben Adair]

Sitting through the trial, Alana said she could feel Munir's presence looming over everything.

[Lance Lamont]

The fact that he was hardly spoken about at trial was really hard for everyone.

[Kelly Sue Park]

The funny thing is, they continued on with their case. I mean, I don't know what else they were going to do, because that was what they believed went down. They can say that she worked for Uwayda, but why on earth would a businesswoman go in and murder an aspiring model who happened to date her boss a year earlier? It effectively short circuited the mode of conversation.

[Ben Adair]

But the prosecution did not seem flustered. Alan Jackson was one of the prosecutors on the case. He appeared more than confident when speaking to CBS News.

[Alana Hadid]

I can tell you, in 18 years.

[Ben Adair]

Of prosecuting cases, I've never had this much DNA. The DNA was on the door lock. DNA on a plate in the sink. DNA on that stove knob, which you'd expect because someone turned it on. DNA on the front and the back of Juliana's T shirt, and possibly most importantly, DNA on her throat. And don't forget the drop of blood. And guess where the blood was found. In a fingerprint on a plate in the sink. And the fingerprint was Kelly Sue Park's left thumb. We reached out to the two prosecutors on this case, Alan Jackson and Stacey Okunweiss, as well as to George Bueller, who led the defense. Alan Jackson never returned our many calls and messages. Stacey Okunweiss and George Buehler declined to be interviewed. The defense, for its part, played it kind of low key. They paid for an expensive jury consultant, and Juliana's friends say, carefully managed Kelly's appearance to that jury.

[Lance Lamont]

The way in which Kelly sue park was characterized, I think was really hard because she wasn't made out to be the person who she actually was, which was like an enforcer. And she sat in the court wearing sweater sets and acting like she was completely confused.

[Ben Adair]

When the DNA evidence came up, lead defense attorney George Ber didn't dispute it. Instead, he spent his time casting doubt on the DA's arguments about motive, on Juliana's lifestyle, even on the phone records. They also cast doubt on Kelly Sue Park. According to Alana, Kelly presented in court as a kind of confused deer in the headlights. How could she possibly have the strength to strangle Juliana despite having 3 inches and 40 pounds on her. After the prosecution rested, the defense called just a handful of witnesses, a few friends, and then, oddly, a woman whose testimony was that she'd seen Juliana at Munir's Beverly Hills home and that she'd seen Kelly sue park there, too, potentially on the same day. Then Mooney closing arguments. And that's when things got weird. The prosecution closed its case, arguing the DNA, the fingerprints, everything pointed to Kelly Sue Park. And the defense said, essentially, yeah, that's true, but.

[Kelly Sue Park]

So George got up there and he said, there's a perfect explanation for why there could be DNA on all the most pivotal parts of the crime scene. And that is that the killer, whoever he is, had taken a rag from Juliana's house and had tried to wipe down all the things that they touched. Well, Juliana had lived with Dr. Ueda for a little while a few months earlier, and George said that maybe when she left, she took a towel or a rag with her. And Kelly Sue park worked for Dr. Ueda and had been in his house. And she may well have touched that rag, and so some of her DNA might have transferred to that rag. And then when the killer used that rag from Juliana's house, Kelly Sue Park's DNA could have been then transferred to the crime scene. And that's how you end up with all the most important areas of that crime scene.

[Ben Adair]

CBS News captured the closing argument.

[Kelly Sue Park]

You have a killer who's got a rag.

[Ben Adair]

He's going around, he's wiping the places to get rid of his fingerprints, his DNA, and he's got Mrs. Park's DNA unbeknownst to him, but to his great benefit, benefit on that rack. It was an idea that had been barely talked about in trial, certainly not interrogated, it seemed. Here's Lance Lamont.

[Alana Hadid]

George Bueller made outrageous arguments that were such BS and so much malarkey and baloney that it just shocked me. He was bombastic. I'm going to say. He pushed the envelope with some of his arguments that were total bullshit arguments. No other way I can say it. A lot of bs. And he clearly captivated the jury. George Bueller is one of the superstar defense attorneys, criminal defense attorney.

[Kelly Sue Park]

It was a very surprising argument. I was not expecting it. I had not seen an argument like that ever made before.

[Ben Adair]

Jury deliberations lasted a week. And on June 4, 2013, five years after Juliana's murder, the jury came back to the courtroom. There were two charges, both first degree and second degree murder.

[Alana Hadid]

And when both of them were red, I was Shocked out of my very skin. I was shocked.

[Ben Adair]

Not guilty. Not guilty.

[Alana Hadid]

It was mayhem. It really was.

[Ben Adair]

The courtroom erupted.

[Alana Hadid]

Bitch. There's something wrong here. Go to hell, whore. These things were yelled by Juliana's friends in the courtroom right after the verdict was read. Go to hell, whore. I have that memorized. I'll be dead before I forget that. And bitch was screamed, and you murdered her. Someone yelled, murderer. It was really scary in that courtroom. George Bueller walked out of the courtroom door like he was on a pogo stick. He'd really done it. He had gotten a not guilty verdict for his client. And I walked out right behind Patricia Redding. And she looked at George Bueller, who was standing in front of the elevator. I believe he had pushed the button. He was waiting for the elevator door to open. And right when the elevator doors opened, Patricia Redding yelled at him. How would you feel if your daughter was murdered? That's exactly what Patricia said. How would you feel if your daughter was murdered? And George just got in the elevator and moseyed on down.

[Ben Adair]

Alana and Jessica again.

[Lance Lamont]

I think everyone was just in complete shock. We couldn't believe that you could find Kelly Sue Park's DNA evidence, blood evidence, on a broken plate in her sink, on the oven, on the door, I believe, on her neck, on Juliana's neck. And that any 12 people with any logical sense could say that that DNA evidence could come from anywhere else. But that's what happened. And it was really hard to process.

[Jessica]

I was at my house, and it was actually on the news because it was such a shocking verdict. It was on even in San Diego. They kept replaying it. It was like on the evening news and the afternoon news. Everybody just kept re watching it, just like, this is crazy.

[Ben Adair]

Jack Leonard.

[Kelly Sue Park]

I had never seen a case where there was DNA evidence against a suspect and that person was acquitted. I had never seen a not guilty verdict for someone with DNA left at the crime scene.

[Ben Adair]

But this would not be the last time Jack would hear of Kelly Sue Park.

[Kelly Sue Park]

I was an editor. Years later, I was working with the reporter. We'd worked out that Kelly sue park was in jail. And we were like, why is she back in jail?

[Ben Adair]

Because cops still wanted to talk to Kelly sue park and Munir Uwayda next time on doctor's orders.

[Alana Hadid]

So I'm telling him it really, really hurts.

[Lance Lamont]

And so he says, just be strong.

[Jessica]

Just be strong.

[Lance Lamont]

Hang on. Just hang on.

[Alana Hadid]

And then he keeps pulling and pulling.

[Lance Lamont]

And I'm starting to scream.

[Jessica]

And I asked to see the doctor.

[Ben Adair]

To see if what you know, do.

[Jessica]

I need to be checked out or anything? And they said, oh, you're fine, you're fine.

[Alana Hadid]

And I said, okay, just let just get me the hell out of here.

[Lance Lamont]

And then I just started screaming, you idiots.

[Ben Adair]

What the hell did you do to me, you idiots. Next Up, Episode 3 Dirty and Scummy don't want to wait for the next episode? You don't have to Unlock all episodes of Doctor's Orders ad free right now by subscribing to the Binge Podcast channel. Search for the binge on Apple Podcasts and hit subscribe at the top of the page, not on apple. Head to getthebinge.com to get access wherever you listen. As a subscriber, you'll get binge access to new stories on the 1st of every month. Check out the Binge channel on apple podcasts or getthebinge.com to learn more. Doctor's Orders is produced by Western Sound for Sony Music Entertainment's the Binge. The executive producer and host is me, Ben Adair. The executive producer for the Binge is Jonathan Hirsch. Doctor's Orders was written and produced by Nada Salem. It was edited by Ben Adair. Laila Hassan is our fact checker. Legal review by Davis Wright Tremaine llp. Michael Rayfield is the mix engineer. Next up, Episode three Dirty and Scummy.

[Jessica]

What do you think makes the perfect snack?

[Ben Adair]

Hmm, it's gotta be when I'm really craving it and it's convenient.

[Jessica]

Could you be more specific when it's cravenient?

[Ben Adair]

Okay, like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter available right down the street at am, pm Or a savory breakfast sandwich I can grab in just.

[Narrator]

A second at AM pm.

[Jessica]

I'm seeing a pattern here.

[Ben Adair]

Well, yeah, we're talking about what I.

[Jessica]

Crave, which is anything from am, pm.

[Ben Adair]

What more could you want? Stop by AMPM where the snacks and drinks are perfectly craveable and convenient. That's cravenience am PM Too much good stuff.