132 - The Disappearance of Kristine Kupka

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-eight year old Kristine Kupka was following her dreams. A firm supporter of women's rights, Kristine was just months from graduating with a degree in philosophy from which she planned to move into law school. Then she got a life changing surprise -- she was pregnant.

Excited by the opportunity to be a mother, Kristine immediately began planning for the future. While she wasn't sure how the father would receive the news she couldn't be prepared for how he reacted. He begged Kristine to get an abortion and explained that he had lied to her; he was married and this pregnancy would destroy his life. Kristine empathized but she had no plans of aborting her child.

Months later, Kristine vanished after being picked up by the child's father. While he argues he dropped Kristine off after several hours, others believe he played a direct role in the young mother to be's disappearance.

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0:00.0	5 months pregnant and 2 months from graduating college, 28-year-old Christine Cooke was
0:15.6	thinking about the future.
0:17.7	While things hadn't exactly gone to plan, she was focused and determined to follow her
0:22.2	dreams, while also making a better life for herself and her unborn child.
0:28.2	It had been a difficult summer, especially when it came to the child's father.
0:32.3	Rudy Persaud, an adjunct lab professor at her alma mater, Baruch College,
0:37.5	wasn't interested in being involved in either Christine or her child's life.
0:42.4	Then suddenly, he turned 180 and became supportive and claimed that he wanted to be involved.
0:48.7	Christine was hesitant but hopeful.
0:51.8	On October 24, 1998, Christine was picked up by Rudy allegedly to help clean his new apartment,
0:59.1	but she never made it home. For more than 20 years, Christine's fate and that of her unborn
1:04.9	child has remained unknown, and while no one knows for certain what happened,
1:09.8	her family believes there is one man who knows the truth, the very man who was the last one to see
1:16.5	her alive. This is Trace Evidence, Episode 132, The Disappearance of Christine Cooke.
1:32.0	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.
1:36.4	Today, we examine the horrifying disappearance of 28-year-old Christine Cooke before getting into
1:42.9	the case just a few notes about the show. Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused
1:49.0	on unsolved murders and disappearances. You can follow the show on social media on Twitter
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