Helene Pruszynski
DNA: ID
AbJack Entertainment
4.8 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:05.2 | Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network, including |
| 0:10.0 | The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Three Men and a Mystery, Malice, Riddle |
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| 0:40.3 | The Episode 12, Helene Prisinski |
| 1:12.1 | It was 1980. |
| 1:14.8 | 21-year-old college student Helene Prisinski had left her native Massachusetts during her senior year at Wheaton College |
| 1:21.4 | and had traveled with her friend Kitsy Snow to Denver, Colorado, where the two girls had internships lined up. |
| 1:28.9 | They were staying with Helene's aunt and uncle, the Blix, at 4644 South Pennsylvania Street in Englewood. |
| 1:36.9 | Helene was interning at K-H-O-W radio in downtown Denver. |
| 1:41.2 | She started her internship on New Year's Day. |
| 1:43.8 | This was the perfect job for her, |
| 1:45.3 | as she aspired to be a journalist, and at the news radio station, she would get some real-life |
| 1:49.7 | experience in the profession she aspired to. On Wednesday, January 16th, at the end of the workday, |
| 1:56.5 | Helene left work as usual and boarded the RTD bus that would take her back to Englewood, |
| 2:01.7 | but she never returned to her aunt's home. |
| 2:05.1 | Worried at first and then panicked, the Blix drove around the neighborhood, checking local restaurants and the bus stops. |
| 2:12.3 | They knew deep down that Helene would not have gone anywhere without telling them. |
| 2:16.8 | Finally, distraught, Wanda Blix called the Englewood police after 10 p.m. |
| 2:22.2 | Officer Richard Wellborn came to the house and the Blix told him that Helene was missing. |
| 2:27.1 | They stressed that she was extremely punctual and reliable, did not date, |
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