Kristen Modafferi: Degrees of Separation

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Kristen Deborah Modafferi was an 18 year old living in Oakland, California. She was originally from North Carolina, and was taking photography and dance classes. On June 23, 1997 at 3pm, she left her coffee house job at the Crocker Galleria in San Francisco--her co-workers thought she was headed to the beach. But 45 minutes later Kristen was seen still in the mall. She was never seen again. Website: https://www.findkristen.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/8796327669/ NAMUS: https://namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/4015 Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/kristen-deborah-modafferi Websleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ca-kristen-modafferi-18-san-francisco-23-june-1997.46/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Kristen Modafferi, please contact the Oakland Police Department at 510-238-3641. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, websites, and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kristen Deborah Mona Ferry was an 18 year old living in Oakland, California.
0:04.5	She was originally from North Carolina and was taking photography and dance classes.
0:09.1	On June 23rd, 1997 at 3 p.m. She left her coffee house job at the Crocker Gallery in San Francisco.
0:16.7	Her coworkers thought she was headed to the beach.
0:19.6	But 45 minutes later, Kristen was seen still in the mall.
0:24.3	She was never seen again.
0:28.0	I'm at Denzel, and this is unfound. I'm going to do. Does anybody remember that game the Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
1:03.5	The challenge was to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and the star of such
1:08.6	films as Footloose and a few good men.
1:12.2	It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the
1:14.6	Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film rolls to bacon within six
1:19.1	steps. I think my bacon number is three and I won't bore you with how that is even possible.
1:25.0	But the concept of that game comes from an idea put forth way back in 1929
1:30.0	that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six people they mutually know.
1:36.0	So conceivably, Prince Harry, who just got married this past weekend, could be connected
1:40.6	to an engineer in Ohio in six acquaintances or less.
1:45.3	So Harry knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody, etc.
1:49.2	Who knows the engineer.
1:51.0	This idea of people being connected is important in investigating crime and
1:55.4	compiling crime statistics because it has been proven that stranger on
1:59.4	stranger crime is fairly rare. Both men and women are more likely to be harmed by someone
2:04.9	they know than someone they don't. So someone within one degree of
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