015 - The Unexplained Death of Andrew Sadek

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 August 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Twenty year old Andrew Sadek mysteriously vanished six months after becoming a confidential informant for the Richland County Sheriff's Department, in North Dakota. He was last seen on surveillance cameras leaving his dorm room at 2am on May 1st, 2014. While his family approached it as a case of possible abduction and foul play, authorities treated it more as a man fleeing from legal ramifications.

A bitter debate would erupt between Andrew's family and the Sheriff's Department coming to a head when nearly two months later, on June 27th, Andrew's body was recovered from the Red River just across the state line in Minnesota. He had been killed by a small caliber gunshot wound to the head and while Andrew's family believed he was murdered, others have suggested that Andrew may have committed suicide.

Strangely, Andrew was not wearing the same clothing he was last seen in and his backpack was filled with rocks and tied to his body. Was this an attempt by a killer to weigh him down, or did Andrew not want his body to be recovered? Questions abound in this strange case, with several twists and turns. Ultimately, a law would be changed and a wrongful death lawsuit is currently being argued in court.

Was Andrew murdered in a robbery gone wrong? Did someone he informed on find out the truth and kill him for revenge? Or did Andrew become overwhelmed by the intense pressure and choose to end his life? Join host Steven Pacheco as he examines the details of this tragic story and tries to follow all of the twists and turns in the Unexplained Death of Andrew Sadek.

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0:00.0	Andrew Satic was a 20-year-old college student attending the North Dakota State College of
0:16.3	Science in 2012. Often described as shy and timid, Andrew was a high-achieving student
0:23.3	pursuing a career as an electrician. He balanced his time between attending classes, spending
0:29.5	time with his roommate and assisting his parents on their cattle ranch in Rogers, North
0:34.2	Dakota. By all accounts, he was intelligent and kind, hardworking, and highly interested
0:41.1	in building a future. All of that changed during his spring semester in 2013. In the spring
0:48.1	of 2013, Andrew had begun selling marijuana to make some extra cash. In April of that year,
0:55.6	he sold marijuana to a police confidential informant on two separate occasions. Seven months
1:01.6	later, the day before his 20th birthday, on November 21st, Sheriff's deputies arrived at his
1:07.8	dorm and informed him that they were aware of his side business. With his consent, they searched
1:14.0	his dorm room and found a plastic grinder with marijuana residue on it. Rather than arrest
1:19.4	him, Andrew was asked if he was interested in working things out without having to go to court,
1:25.0	and if so, he was invited to come down to the Richland County Sheriff's Department the next day
1:30.2	to discuss his options. The next day, Deputy Jason Weber presented Andrew with two options.
1:38.2	He could go forward with the charges, two Class A felonies for selling marijuana, which each
1:44.1	carries a sentence of 20 years, or he could agree to become a confidential informant for the
1:49.8	department and make a series of controlled buys, wherein a drug task force would monitor the
1:55.4	purchases in order to make larger arrests further down the line. Faced with possible jail time,
2:01.9	or a nearly clean slate, Andrew agreed to undertake the operation. Within the first two months,
2:09.3	Andrew made buys from two separate individuals and only had one person left to buy from. When suddenly,
2:16.1	he severed all contact with Deputy Weber and refused to cooperate. By February of 2014,
2:23.2	Andrew was no longer working for the Sheriff's Department, and as per his agreement,
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