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A Killing On the Cape

ABC News

True Crime

4.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Police expand their search for Christa Worthington's killer, looking at an ex-boyfriend and even Christa's own father. But a match on a crucial piece of D.N.A. evidence continued to be elusive, forcing police to take an unorthodox approach to find the killer and one that would grab national headlines. Support this podcast with a review --------> http://bit.ly/2xj9fk8 *** Can you help catch a killer? Check out our other series, "A Murder On Orchard Street." Listen and subscribe: http://apple.co/2xuXURv *** ** Subscribe to "Start Here," the new daily podcast from ABC News, available on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/2pvq8Ws), Google Podcasts (http://bit.ly/2JZSK70), or your favorite podcast app! "A Killing On the Cape" is a production of ABC Radio and ABC News "20/20." Subscribe to the weekly "20/20" podcast on Apple Podcasts (http://apple.co/2zKPW5c) or wherever you're listening right now. Find more ABC podcasts at http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last time, on a killing on the cape.
0:03.6	I suspected him as a suspect, the first suspect, and then her as a second.
0:09.2	I can't believe they would suspect you.
0:11.2	We were questioning quite a few times.
0:13.2	We say we can't rule men, we can't rule them out.
0:16.0	And it kind of stayed like that.
0:18.0	It was going to stay like that until we made our rest.
0:20.0	Christa's love life was a mess.
0:24.0	There was no other way to describe it.
0:28.4	In the weeks following Christa Worthington's murder, police had a laundry list of people they suspected of being involved.
0:34.0	Tony Jacket, the father of Christa's baby and his wife Susan, were questioned by police.
0:39.2	But investigators were forced to turn their attention elsewhere.
0:42.4	And soon the entire town of Turo would be in the crosshairs, as public pressure on district attorney Michael O'Keefe to solve the case grew.
0:50.0	We believe that Christa Worthington was involved in an intimate relationship with a person.
0:58.0	Prior to or relatively contemporaneous with her death.
1:02.8	I think he felt the pressure to solve this also because it was such a nationally publicized case.
1:10.0	This is not just a little Cape Cod murder.
1:12.0	It's suddenly involved in New York, Los Angeles, the whole country was watching what was happening with this murder.
1:20.0	From ABC Radio in 2020, I'm Mark Remelard and this is A Killing on the Cape.
1:28.0	Tony and Susan Jacket wouldn't be officially ruled out by police.
1:40.0	For the roughly three years, it took for them to find and charge Christa for McCallan in the rape and murder of Christa.
1:46.0	Both had recalled where they were the weekend Christa was killed and the cops were satisfied.
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