Lisa Ziegert Part 1

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AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Episode 39 Lisa Ziegert Part 1 of 2

In 1992, aspiring 24 year-old teacher Lisa Ziegert was abducted from her second job – the clerk at a gift and collectibles shop in Agawam, Massachusetts. Her family’s worst fears came true just days later, when Lisa’s body was found on Easter Sunday, dumped in a site many felt would only be known to locals. After decades of false hopes, red herrings, and dead-end leads, Agawam investigators turned to phenotyping to narrow down their pool of suspects. Knowing the genetic makeup of the male who left his DNA on Lisa allowed them to pinpoint 11 suspects who had the right characteristics, and who had never given DNA samples. And one of those 11 was so spooked by the arrival of investigators on his doorstep, he confessed to all of it. It turned out it was far from the first time police on the Ziegert case had interacted with him.
(Be sure to tune in for part 2 of this episode about Lisa's case available now)

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0:28.2	episode. The
0:40.3	...you know, Episode 39, Lisa Ziegert. It was 1992. It was early in the morning and some of the teachers at Agawam Middle School were becoming concerned.
1:17.6	One of the most popular teacher's aides, bubbly, energetic, and warm Lisa Ziegert hadn't shown up to work with her assigned special education students that morning at 7.50 a.m.
1:28.6	The pretty young brunette was reliable and timely.
1:31.8	She was never late, much less MIA.
1:34.6	But on this Thursday, April 16th, Lisa was nowhere to be seen.
1:39.3	The middle school secretary called Lisa's mom Diane, who had no idea where Lisa was.
1:46.0	Little did she know that, meanwhile, in downtown Agawam, a retail employee of Brittany's card and gift shop had arrived to work
1:52.8	in the family-owned business. This was a young woman named Sophia. Lisa Ziegert worked two jobs
1:59.2	as many educators need to do to make ends meet, and her second job four nights a week was as a clerk at Britannies.
2:06.6	Lisa and Sophia both worked at the store, and Lisa had shown up, as expected, the previous evening, to relieve Sophia and start her evening shift, which was from 5 p.m. until closing.
2:19.6	She was scheduled to work solo until 9 when she would lock up and go home. But on this Thursday morning, around 9 a.m.,
2:26.5	Sophia arrived to open the store and immediately went on high alert. Lisa's white Geo storm was
2:32.7	parked in the lot right in front of the store where she had parked it the night before.
2:37.0	And Sophia knew that Lisa should have been at the school at that hour.
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