Barbara 'Barbie' Blatnik
DNA: ID
AbJack Entertainment
4.8 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In the last episode of DNA: ID’s 2021 season, we examine the 1987 murder of Barbie Blatnik. The 17 year old girl was last seen being dropped off to visit her boyfriend at 2:30 a.m. on December 20th in their hometown of Garfield Heights, Ohio. Her body was found the next morning, miles away in Cuyahoga Falls. She had been raped and brutalized. Her case was plagued by too many suspects, jurisdictional confusion, and lost evidence. For more than 30 years, Barbie’s family had no answers to who killed her. Finally, forensic genealogy pointed them right back to the place where Barbie had last been seen, and a suspect whose name was never in the case file. And he had his own troubling disappearance in his family.
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| 0:28.0 | Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The Episode 24, Barbara Blotnick. It was 1987. Barbara and Blotnick, It was 1987. Barbara and Blatnick was a 17-year-old high school student in Garfield Heights, Ohio. It was just a few days before Christmas, Saturday, December 19th, and Barbie, as she was called, had plans. The feisty and independent teenager left the home she shared with her parents |
| 1:28.9 | and older sister and headed out. She was picked up by two friends sometime between 1.30 and 2.30 p.m. |
| 1:36.2 | For the next 12 hours, Barbie was off with her pack of friends, party hopping, drinking, and doing |
| 1:41.3 | what teens usually do. Barbie's friends later told police that they dropped |
| 1:46.1 | Barbie off at the intersection of Warner Road and Grand Division Avenue in Garfield Heights, |
| 1:51.6 | and that Barbie was going to see her boyfriend. This was around 2.30 a.m. Sunday morning. |
| 1:57.5 | Barbie got out of the car and her friends drove off. They did not see what happened to Barbie after that. |
| 2:03.9 | The next morning, around 10.20 a.m. on Sunday, an employee of KST, oil, and gas named Rodney, |
| 2:10.9 | was driving his truck on O'Neill Road near the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. |
| 2:17.2 | Rodney's job that morning was to check |
| 2:18.8 | gas wellheads on wells owned by KST. He drove up O'Neill Road to check the well at the end. |
| 2:26.1 | After 45 minutes to an hour, he drove back down O'Neill Road towards Steele's Corner Road. |
| 2:32.1 | On the right-hand side of the road, he saw something lying in the brush |
| 2:35.3 | along the narrow tree line. Getting out of his truck and approaching, he found a, quote, |
| 2:41.1 | nude and bruised young woman lying on the ground face down. The body lay about 10 feet off the north |
| 2:47.5 | side of O'Neill Road on the edge of a thinly wooded area. From his truck, Rodney |
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