April Tinsley Part 1
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4.8 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Think you know everything there is to know about the April Tinsley case? Think again. April Marie Tinsley, age 8, was abducted, raped and murdered in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1988. Her killer was not identified for 30 years – and he was still alive and living in the area. In this 2-part episode, I discuss never-before revealed details about the case, and speak with one of the detectives who arrested John D. Miller of Grabill, Indiana for the notorious crime that shook Fort Wayne.
*Credit On the case with PZ July 2018 episode PAULA ZAHN EPISODE S. 17 EP 1, The Deadly Playdate.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to DNAID, brought to you by Abject Entertainment. |
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| 0:28.7 | episode. Episode 21, April Tinsley |
| 0:55.2 | It was 1988. |
| 0:58.1 | On Good Friday, April 1st, there was a half day of school before the students were let out for the week-long spring vacation week. |
| 1:05.4 | At 11.30 a.m., 8-year-old April Tinsley walked home from Fairfield Elementary with her friend Lisa Gambler. |
| 1:11.7 | She ate lunch, but by 12.30, she was on the move, heading out on foot to visit her friend Nicole, |
| 1:17.2 | who lived six blocks away on West Suttonfield Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana. |
| 1:22.4 | The two girls played at a nearby park until about 2.30, and then headed to their friend Denise's house in the |
| 1:28.2 | 2,300 block of Hoagland Avenue. It was chilly and had been raining earlier, and April had |
| 1:35.1 | brought her umbrella with her when she left her family's apartment at 307.5 West Williams |
| 1:41.0 | Street after lunch. But once they were at Denise's, April realized that she had |
| 1:45.6 | left her umbrella sitting in the foyer at Nicole's house. Around 305 p.m., she set out on Hougland Avenue |
| 1:51.9 | to walk back to Nicole's, alone, to retrieve it before heading home. April had been told by her parents |
| 1:58.1 | to be back by 3.30 because it was going to rain. |
| 2:07.4 | But she never came home. Around 3.45, not knowing where her daughter was, April's mom, Janet, |
| 2:11.7 | walked over to Nicole's house to see if the girls were there and had just lost track of time. |
| 2:15.7 | Nicole was there and April's umbrella was there, but April wasn't. |
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