Kellie Poppleton (9 of Hearts, California)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.6 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Fourteen-year-old Kellie Poppleton was brutally assaulted and murdered on December 2, 1983, and for almost 40 years, calls for justice have gone unanswered. But now, with advancements in DNA forensics, detectives are more hopeful than ever that they might be able to find their killer. They hope that the renewed interest in this case will give them the final piece of the puzzle and to bring the family the justice that is so long overdue.

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0:00.0	Our card this week is Kelly Poppleton, the nine of hearts from California.
0:08.4	I've been looking forward to sharing Kelly's case with you all because it is so close,
0:13.8	and I mean like investigative inches away from finally being solved.
0:18.8	And after almost 40 years of her case going unsolved, detectives are now ready to share
0:23.8	new information that has never been released to the public.
0:28.6	And that with your help could get Kelly's family the answer to the question that they've
0:33.2	been asking for decades.
0:35.5	Who killed Kelly?
0:37.4	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.
1:07.4	It was about 5.30 pm on Friday, December 2nd, 1983, and this evening was anything but
1:20.5	normal for a man named Hans Kruger.
1:23.2	Unlike every other Friday night before, Hans wasn't just leisurely making his way home.
1:28.6	Something happened on his drive.
1:30.8	And when he tore into the driveway of his small California mountain townhome, he rushed
1:35.8	the phone to make this call.
1:37.8	My name is Hans Kruger.
1:38.8	I live in one town, the Killcare Road in the snow.
1:45.8	And on my way home tonight I found a body on the site of Killcare Road at approximately
1:51.8	500.
1:52.8	500 right to the address.
1:53.8	Yeah, it was about halfway between the north and my house here at one thousand.
2:01.8	And then I found out where he was.
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