{"id":53875,"date":"2025-11-15T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:30:10","slug":"abcs-juju-chang-uncovers-exclusive-new-details-about-debbie-dorians-fresno-murder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53875\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC&#8217;s JuJu Chang uncovers exclusive new details about Debbie Dorian&#8217;s Fresno murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday night, Central California will learn new details about a crime spree that haunted the Valley for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Debbie Dorian, who was killed and who set off this long, decades-long investigation,&#8221; ABC News anchor JuJu Chang told Action News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chang reports from Fresno on the 1996 murder of Debbie Dorian. She was a few months out of Fresno State when her father found her dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/abcs-juju-chang-sits-down-024519844.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ABC&#039;s JuJu Chang sits down with Action News ahead of Friday&#039;s 20\/20 on Debbie Dorian;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC&#8217;s JuJu Chang sits down with Action News ahead of Friday&#8217;s 20\/20 on Debbie Dorian<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chang goes to the former crime scene at Debbie&#8217;s Northeast Fresno apartment complex and to the campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I went to Fresno State and walked across the campus that was really touched by this murder because it went unsolved, and she was a bright, vibrant co-ed,&#8221; Chang said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, Chang will introduce you to Beth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For years, Action News has reported on her as &#8220;Jane Doe #1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She is one of several women Nickey Stane assaulted in Visalia after Debbie&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;What was that moment when she sat down with you and revealed her name publicly for the first time?&#8221; Action News asked Chang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There were a lot of butterflies all around because we never want to pressure anyone to do something that might impact them,&#8221; Chang said. &#8220;Beth was so courageous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/dna-match-solves-murder-california-woman-almost-3-decades\/18155080\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DNA found at the scene;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DNA found at the scene<\/a> of Beth&#8217;s assault that connected her crime to Debbie&#8217;s murder, and later tied Stane to all of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/dna-match-solves-murder-california-woman-almost-3-decades\/18155080\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DNA match solves murder of California woman after almost 3 decades;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DNA match solves murder of California woman after almost 3 decades<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JuJu told Action News about exclusive body-camera video that includes a conversation with Stane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s fascinating to see the evolution and the spiraling of him on camera,&#8221; Chang said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is also a critical jailhouse call. Action News first brought you details of it two years ago when prosecutors played it in court, but we were not allowed to record it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/debbie-dorians-convicted-killer-nickey-stane-sentenced\/16731674\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Debbie Dorian&#039;s killer Nickey Stane sentenced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Debbie Dorian&#8217;s killer Nickey Stane sentenced<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, viewers will hear the call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He is talking to family members, and as you know, these kinds of jailhouse phone calls are recorded, and he basically implicates himself (by) saying words to the effect of, &#8216;I&#8217;ve done bad things,'&#8221; Chang said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chang has spent several months reporting on this, making many trips to Fresno. She even went to the farm of Vince Zavala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zavala is a retired investigator who cracked the case and <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/debbie-dorians-convicted-killer-nickey-stane-sentenced\/16731674\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:helped send Stane to prison;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">helped send Stane to prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He&#8217;s the kind of guy who makes me feel good covering these stories that can often be so dark,&#8221; Chang said of Zavala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For news updates, follow Gabe Ferris on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GabeABC30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabeABC30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/GabeABC30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday night, Central California will learn new details about a crime spree that haunted the Valley for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8595,33888,33886,112,114,113,742,33887,33889],"class_list":["post-53875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-action-news","tag-debbie","tag-debbie-dorian","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state","tag-juju-chang","tag-nickey-stane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}