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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Freshman girl interns at Denver radio station 2 weeks, snatched from bus, raped & murdered. WHO KILLED HELENE PRUSZYNSKI?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Genealogical databases and DNA from a beer mug leads Colorado police to a suspect in the death of Helene Pruszynski. Police believe the 21-year-old radio station intern, was grabbed while walking from a bus stop in Englewood. 61-year-old James Curtis Clanton, a Florida trucker, is accused of raping Pruszynski, stabbing her to death, then leaving her body in a field. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss:Mark Tate: Represents Chatham County, South Carolina; suing Opioid ManufacturersBruce Johnson: Owner if ISP Investigations, Master Sgt Region One Crime Scene Commander, Chicago metro area (ret)Dr. Caryn Stark: PsychologistDr. Katherine Maloney: Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Erie County Medical Examiner's Office, Buffalo, New York. Levi Page: Investigative reporter, CrimeOnline.com

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0:00.0

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0:29.5

Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner. I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new

0:35.0

co-case podcast, zone 7. We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors,

0:40.6

and nationally recognized experts that are in my zone 7. The group of professionals that I've

0:45.9

called on to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't. We are

0:51.4

going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to zone 7 on the iHeart Radio app,

0:58.1

the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

1:08.2

A college student in intern with her life before her Haleen Praschinsky gets off the bus how many

1:15.5

times have I taken the bus back and forth to work in New York. You get off, your hands are full,

1:23.1

you got a backpack, a pocketbook sometimes, tons of work in your hands, and then suddenly out of

1:30.5

nowhere you're attacked likely from behind. I can just see somebody grabbing her by her backpack

1:37.6

and slinging her around and then she's raped, raped, brutally raped, in the outdoors, in the elements

1:46.5

and she wasn't just murdered. This young girl was murdered nine times over as I recall from the

1:53.6

Medical Examiner's report stabbed nine times in the back. I'm Nancy Grace this is Crime Stories.

2:01.7

Thank you for being with us and let me tell you something how many years did Haleen's family endure?

2:16.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

2:23.8

As snow began to fall in the field where the body of young Helen Praschinsky was found,

2:27.8

obliterating any clues, authorities called off their search of the area.

2:32.0

Douglas County Sheriff's Officers and investigators from the Colorado Bureau of

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