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290: Who Killed Peggy Hettrick - February 11 2020 - Today in True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com When all of the evidence points away from a suspect, that usually means their innocent, right? Well, on February 11th 1987 a woman in Fort Collins, Colorado was killed. There wasn’t a lot of evidence, but what they had all seemed to point away from their main suspect, a sophomore in high school. Yet, 10 years after her murder, this boy would find himself in prison for her mmurder. So, who killed Peggy Hettrick? Peggy Hettrick Killed(1987) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement.

0:03.8

We have a weird...

0:05.8

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.5

When all of the evidence points away from a suspect, they usually means they're innocent, right?

0:16.9

Well, on February 11, 1987, a woman in Fort Collins, Colorado was killed.

0:23.2

But what they had all seemed to point away from their main suspect, a sophomore in high school.

0:29.6

Yet 10 years later, this boy would find himself in prison for her murder.

0:34.3

So, who killed Peggy Hedrick?

0:36.9

So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

0:40.3

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. Peggy Hedrick was 34 years old when,

0:49.1

on February 19, 1987, she spent an evening bar hopping in Fort Collins, Colorado. She walked to her

0:56.9

apartment to change her clothes and head back out. She was last seen alive around 1.30 a.m. on February

1:03.5

11th, leaving the prime minister. Early that same morning, a bicyclist wrote up to what he thought

1:09.8

was a mannequin. What he found was the body

1:13.1

of Peggy Hedrick. She had been sexually mutilated, nipple removed, as well as female circumcision

1:19.7

via a partial vulvectomy. Her cause of death was a single stab wound to her upper left back.

1:27.2

Coroners also concluded that the mutilations done

1:29.9

were with quality surgical equipment and with a high level of skill. Still slung over her shoulder

1:36.9

was her untouched purse, contents still inside and accounted for. So who would have done this to Peggy?

1:45.0

And why?

1:46.6

Well, while police were canvassing the area, a man came to them with some interesting news.

1:52.8

He claimed that before the cyclist found Peggy's remains, he witnessed his 15-year-old

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