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True Crime Chronicles

Crowdsolving a Mystery | 44

True Crime Chronicles

VAULT Studios

True Crime, News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Can hundreds of volunteers come together to help solve a decades-old mystery? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a vault studios production.

0:05.0

I'm Spencer Brooding.

0:06.0

I'm Will Johnson.

0:07.0

I'm Jessica Noel.

0:08.0

This show contains graphic material and is meant for mature audiences.

0:12.0

It's a great. material and is meant for mature audiences.

0:18.0

He was a great kid, never had a chance to become an adult. He's just a great kid.

0:20.0

He never got to be anything but a kid.

0:22.0

That's Kevin Silva.

0:24.0

His little brother, Kurt Silva, was just 17 years old in 1981

0:28.0

when he walked out of a house party

0:30.0

after drinking copious amounts of grain alcohol and went missing from a Cleveland

0:35.5

Ohio suburb. Five days later his body was found in a ravine in an area where

0:40.8

his friends and family had searched in the days following his disappearance.

0:44.8

But 39 years ago, the autopsy revealed that he'd only been dead for about a day or so,

0:51.0

and the coroner determined his death was instantaneous

0:53.9

physiological death. There was still 0.11 blood alcohol content in his

0:58.7

system and there weren't any signs of trauma.

1:03.2

So what happened between the time he vanished from the party

1:06.6

and the time he was found not far from that house?

1:09.6

To this day, Kurt's case remains a mystery.

1:13.0

But we might be closer to answers now.

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