East County teen’s death remains a mystery decades later [Video]

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — It has been nearly 40 years since a 16-year-old girl was found dead inside an El Cajon home.

To this day, investigators do not know exactly what happened.

On Jan. 19, 1985, Christine Pain, a Granite Hills High School student, was found dead in a bathtub at the house she was cleaning to make some money.

The cause of death was declared both strangulation and drowning, according to investigators.

“Christine came to clean the house that day [at] about noon,” San Diego Sheriff’s Department Sergeant Tim Chandler said. “The family all left that day to conduct daily business, so obviously, the homicide investigation focused on them, and everybody who lived at the house had an alibi for the day.”

However, Chandler says everyone in the house had an alibi.

“She was a beautiful person, and she was kind and loving, and she would help anybody at …