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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Gorgeous 20-year-old snatched at bus stop on way home from work, bound, tortured, raped & murdered. UNSOLVED! WHO MURDERED EVE WILKOWITZ?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Gorgeous New Yorker Eve Wilkowitz was just 20 years old when someone brutally murdered her and leaving her body on a lawn in 1980. Eve's sister has vowed to never give up until the killer is caught. Now, 40 years later, new DNA methods may hold the clues police need for an arrest. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss: Tony Destefano - Newsday Journalist Phil Vetrano - Father of slain jogger, Karina VetranoShera LaPoint - Genetic Genealogist, The Gene HunterJohn Cardillo - Host of "America Talks" on Newsmax TV, Former NYPD Dr. Kris Sperry - Retired Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Georgia

Transcript

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0:00.0

March 25, a woman notices a bare foot figure lying on a neighbor's lawn, just a few doors

0:15.2

down.

0:17.0

That figure, a beautiful young woman, Eve Wilcoots, lashing, boarding a late night train,

0:26.4

home from work.

0:29.5

To this day, the mystery surrounding Eve Wilcoots goes on.

0:36.7

I'm Nancy Grace.

0:38.1

This is Crime Stories.

0:46.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:51.8

She was very sweet.

1:04.4

She loved horses, horses were her passion.

1:07.8

She loved to read.

1:08.8

Eve was the older one, and the two sisters were living in Oakdale when they endured the loss

1:05.6

of their mother to breast cancer.

1:07.2

Eve later wanted some independence and moved out to live with a boyfriend and be sure.

1:11.9

She was afraid of him.

1:12.9

She felt something wasn't right.

1:14.6

But Eve had started to find a life in Manhattan with a promising job at McMillan publishing.

1:19.9

A young writer there took an interest in Eve, and he was the one who dropped her at Penn

1:24.0

Station for the last train to Bayshore on that Friday night in March.

1:28.4

The only thing I know is she got on the train from Penn Station.

1:32.0

You know she was on the train.

1:33.6

Eve Wilcoots made a final trip on the Long Island Railroad to Bayshore.

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