DNA ID Replay Helene Pruszynski

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode 171 DNA ID Replay Helene Pruszynski

While Jess is on winter break preparing new episodes of DNA ID for 2026, we are airing some of our favorite one part episodes weekly in what we call 'DNA ID Replay' episodes. These Replay episodes will air every week while on break with the exception of Christmas week. In this episode, we explore the case of Helene Pruszynski which originally aired in episode 12.

In 1980, ambitious college student Helene Pruszynski was abducted from Englewood, Colorado. Her body was found in a remote field the next day. She had been raped and stabbed in the back. Police had multiple suspects, and a series of similar attacks, but were never able to gather enough information to arrest anyone. Decades later, a DNA profile from Helene's crime scene would lead them to her killer. He was living thousands of miles away, using another name. A confiscated beer mug would prove to be his downfall, as his DNA linked him to the crime.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
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0:10.7	The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac speaking, Beyond Bizarre True Crime,
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0:27.8	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The Episode 12, Helene Prasinski.
1:29.2	It was 1980. 21-year-old college student Helene Prisinski It was 1980.
1:36.3	21-year-old college student Helene Prisinski had left her native Massachusetts during her senior year at Wheaton College and had traveled with her friend Kitsy Snow to Denver, Colorado, where the two girls had internships lined up.
1:43.8	They were staying with Helene's aunt and uncle,
1:46.0	the Blix, at 4644 South Pennsylvania Street in Englewood. Helene was interning at K-H-O-W radio in downtown Denver.
1:56.0	She started her internship on New Year's Day. This was the perfect job for her as she aspired to be a journalist,
2:02.1	and at the news radio station, she would get some real-life experience in the profession she
2:06.5	aspired to. On Wednesday, January 16th, at the end of the workday, Helene left work as usual
2:12.7	and boarded the RTD bus that would take her back to Englewood, but she never returned to her aunt's home.
2:20.0	Worried at first and then panicked, the Blix drove around the neighborhood, checking local
2:24.6	restaurants and the bus stops. They knew deep down the Helene would not have gone anywhere
2:30.0	without telling them. Finally, distraught, Wanda Blix called the Englewood police after 10 p.m.
2:37.1	Officer Richard Wellborn came to the house and the Blix told him that Helene was missing.
2:42.0	They stressed that she was extremely punctual and unreliable, did not date, and would never have
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