Hey there, 2020 listeners. This is Deborah Roberts. This week we'll be bringing you the sixth and final episode of death in the dorms.

In our closing episode, you'll hear the story of Katie Autry, a first-year student at Western Kentucky University and a horrendous act of violence that leaves police struggling to find answers.

Let's listen.

We were very proud of Katie for going to college.

She was actually the first member of our family that went.

For my family, that's a major deal.

What was initially thought to be a simple fire

is turning into a mystery.

All the students got out a few pollen halls safely,

except for one.

It was apparent this did not happen

that this was done to her.

And me at 16, I didn't really understand. This was a horrific, horrific crime.

We were playing with a crime scene not only just located in this dorm, but we were playing

on the crime scene that spread the whole campus.

She did matter. She mattered to a lot of evil.

What happened? What happened to Katie?

I feel like I still need to fight for her.

And I'll continue to do that as long as I'm breathing. My cousin Katie was born June 10th, 1984, in Rose in Kentucky, which is where she spent most

of her young childhood at.

I always looked up to Katie just in journal just because she was such a loving person. Like she loved so many people, she loved life.

She was so happy all the time.

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