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503 // The Unsolved Murder of Karen Bodine - Part 1

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Karlee Bodine, daughter of Karen Bodine, about her fight for justice for her mom. Karen's body was found the morning of Jan 22nd, 2007 at a gravel pit adjacent to Littlerock Road Southwest in Olympia, Washington. For more information or to submit tips to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office’s cold case/missing person unit, contact the sheriff’s office at 360-786-5500. You can also email the cold case unit at [email protected]. Check out the official site at karenbodine.com. Follow Karlee's social media pages: FB: facebook.com/JusticeForMyMom.KarenBodine. Tiktok: tiktok.com/@justiceforkarenbodine. Recent media: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/who-killed-karen-bodine, https://youtu.be/4NVUeAsDCPA. If you want to help Karlee with billboards you can donate to her Venmo at venmo.com/u/karlee-Bodine. This episode was originally published on Missing on December 23rd, 2021. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing and please donate if you can: https://investigationsforthemissing.org/. http://piftm.org/donate. https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing. https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/. https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/. Follow Missing: IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. X: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

She was found on the side of the road, and the sad thing is my grandparents and myself both traveled that road that morning.

0:07.5

We saw the cop cars, and we didn't even comprehend what was going on.

0:11.7

We didn't get the news yet.

0:12.7

The body hadn't been identified.

0:14.0

So they drove past their daughter, and I drove past my mom not even knowing what happened.

0:56.5

Yeah. drove past my mom not even knowing what happened. Welcome back to missing. I am Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

1:12.7

I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. I'm particularly excited because we are commemorating our 10 years of being a functioning podcast, which I think is something that is not only remarkable in my head, but I take pride in because we've covered a lot of missing person cases. We were going back into the catalog of missing

1:17.8

person cases and cold cases and just kind of shaking our heads at all of the ones that we've

1:22.6

spoken about, re-remembering all of the details, all of the guests that we've had on.

1:29.4

So that really makes me feel good.

1:31.8

I hope people out there appreciate that.

1:33.0

I hope they're doing well, Tim.

1:33.9

How are you doing?

1:34.9

I'm doing great.

1:41.0

Yeah, I'm sort of having the same feelings as you while I go back through our catalog and do a little bit of reminiscing. And, yeah, remembering guests and these powerful conversations that we've had over the years.

1:50.7

And today we're introducing an episode that is no different to Lance.

1:55.8

We spoke with Carly Bodine about the murder of her mother, Karen.

2:01.5

And Karen was found murdered on January 22, 2007, in Rochester, Washington.

2:11.5

So in the Pacific Northwest.

2:13.5

And so it's been 18 years, no answers.

2:15.6

The family is still fighting for answers.

2:18.3

And there are still social media pages in this case that you can check out for more information.

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