Ep. 164: Chasing Justice: A Mother's Unyielding Faith [The Outstanding Podcast]
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Josephine Wentzel lived every parent’s nightmare when her daughter, Krystal Mitchell, was murdered in 2016. She joins Joseph Backholm to tell her story of tracking down her daughter’s killer after realizing that law enforcement was not actively pursuing the man. Josephine’s story is one of grief, justice, and a God who is still good. As her daughter told her shortly before her death, “Our faith should be like if we died, met Jesus, and came back to earth.” A faith of obedience and eternal purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Right now, Joseph, justice is not afforded to everybody equally. It's not. |
| 0:06.5 | Depending on where you die and what department you have there, you may never see justice ever in your life. |
| 0:13.3 | Because of, you know, lack of personnel, lack of funding, just lack of skills. |
| 0:23.5 | And so what happens are these cases, I mean, look at the John Bonnet case. It's so horrific. There's so many cases that are just so bizarre that needs to |
| 0:31.6 | be looked at by the federal government to make sure that there's justice, but nobody is there |
| 0:36.5 | looking at it. |
| 0:42.2 | Outstanding is a production of The Washington Stand, where you can find news and commentary from a biblical worldview. |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome to Outstanding, where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and the |
| 0:47.3 | ideas that shape us. |
| 0:48.7 | Once again, I'm your host, Joseph back home. |
| 0:51.3 | And this is another exercise in taking every thought captive to the obedience of |
| 0:54.9 | Christ. And today, we're going to think about the worst case scenario. What's the right way to |
| 1:01.5 | respond to the worst thing that could happen to you? Well, of course, I hope and pray that this |
| 1:08.1 | question always remains theoretical for you. It's not theoretical for my guest |
| 1:13.5 | today. Josephine Wenzell lived every parent's nightmare when her daughter was murdered in 2016. |
| 1:21.5 | To make matters worse, she encountered a system that didn't seem all that interested in bringing |
| 1:26.6 | her child's killer to justice. |
| 1:29.3 | The man suspected of murdering her daughter is a former Marine, who changed his identity, fled to South America. |
| 1:36.3 | And Josephine seemed to be the only one interested in finding him and bringing him to justice. |
| 1:42.1 | After years of searching, she may have accomplished her goal. |
| 1:46.5 | The suspect was found, arrested, and is currently awaiting trial in San Diego. |
| 1:52.9 | But this is not just a story of a tenacious mother. It's also a commentary on a system |
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