Jennifer Bastian Part 1 of 2

DNA: ID

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Episode 113 Jennifer Bastian Part 1 of 2

On March 4^th, 1986, the unthinkable happened for the Bastian family of Tacoma, WA. Their sweet, energetic and athletic little girl Jenni, age 13, didn’t come home from a bike training session in Point Defiance Park. Police believed Jenni and her bike had been taken from the park by a predator, and the FBI counseled the family to await a ransom call. But the call never came. And when Jenni was found murdered and hidden in a cleverly disguised cave among the brush, her case joined another horrific child murder in being attributed to a child serial killer plaguing Tacoma. Michella Welch had been killed just four months earlier in another Tacoma park, and her case, too, was unsolved. For the next quarter century, Tacoma investigators pursued the child killer who had taken two of Tacoma’s innocents in such brutal fashion. But with the advent of modern DNA testing and analysis came answers – and they were not what anyone was expecting.

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0:57.0	The This episode contains details of child, murder, and sexual abuse.
1:29.1	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
1:33.2	It was 1986.
1:34.9	Patty Bastion was frantic.
1:36.9	Her 13-year-old daughter, Jennifer, Jenny, to her family, was not home more than two
1:42.1	hours after the time when she'd said she'd be home, which was 6.30 p.m.
1:47.0	Patty had called all of Jenny's friends she could think of, but no one had seen her.
1:51.1	After two fruitless hours, Patty called the Tacoma Police at 8.30 p.m.
1:56.2	She explained that her daughter Jenny had left a note at the family home around 2.30 that day, August 4th,
2:02.6	saying she was going out on her bike to Point Defiance Park.
2:07.3	Jenny was an avid and accomplished road biker and was training for a bike tour to the San Juan Islands
2:13.7	she was going on with the YMCA. She rode to Point Defiance Park and did the five-mile
2:20.3	drive loop there several times a week. Patty answered the dispatcher's questions. Yes, her daughter
2:26.3	always wore her white and red striped helmet. Yes, her bike was in working condition. No,
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