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Unsolved Mysteries

Death of a DJ

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Local celebrity DJ Juan Gatti, aka Stephon Edgerton, is ambushed outside of a Valdosta, Georgia radio station just before midnight on January 20, 2012. Before succumbing to his injuries, he describes the gunman in a heart-wrenching 911 call, but the details are not enough to capture his killer. Who killed Juan Gatti and why? 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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0:32.0

from an emergency 911 call that may be disturbing to some listeners. Disgression is advised.

0:41.1

Mia ran in the room and started on me, my mom, I'm scared! Somebody's knocking on the window.

0:47.2

And then I jump up hysterically and I was like, hold on, hold on! Because typically Stefan would

0:55.6

be right there on the sofa in the living room and I said, Mia, where's your daddy?

1:00.2

Did you see your daddy? She said no mom or something's wrong, daddy's not in there.

1:05.6

So I went to the door and I was like, who is it? One of the detectives broke that news.

1:11.6

Stefan was dead. And then they added murder shot and all of that just closed in on me and I

1:21.2

like I do, it's just call on Jesus.

1:29.5

It's near midnight in South Georgia. Stefan Edraton has just signed off his on-air shift at WGOVFM

1:36.5

radio, eager to get home to his wife Hilda and their three children. Stefan's a prominent DJ

1:42.5

and musician, with a large fan base who know him best by his nickname Juan Gotti. He's alone as

1:48.8

he makes his way the short distance to his car outside the radio station studio. It's a remote

1:54.3

location bathed in darkness, barely visible from the empty highway. Suddenly, from the bushes

2:00.4

next to the building, a dark figure emerges and fires a 38 revolver three times. Stefan collapses.

2:08.0

But what the shooter doesn't know as he makes his escape into the woods is that his victim is still alive.

2:13.6

I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Death of a DJ.

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