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🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
0:02.7 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.1 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:13.0 | We hope beyond all hope that the tragedies we talk about every day never touch us or our loved ones. But if we are unlucky |
0:22.7 | enough to have someone we care about taken away by a killer, we hope that the investigators |
0:27.6 | involved will fight for justice. On December 21st, 2018, a man was convicted for the murder of an |
0:35.3 | eight-year-old girl. A girl whose murder was solved by a |
0:38.8 | relentless group of investigators who never gave up. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones |
0:45.3 | chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. April Tinsley was described as a typical eight-year-old girl. |
0:57.3 | The first grader was beloved by her family and friends, |
1:00.4 | was a member of the children's choir at her Fort Wayne, Indiana Church, |
1:04.1 | and enjoyed the freedom of walking from house to house to play with friends. |
1:09.2 | Unfortunately, that freedom was about to be taken advantage of. |
1:12.9 | On April 1st, 1988, less than a month after her eighth birthday, April and her two friends |
1:19.5 | began their walk to a different house to play when she realized she forgot her umbrella at the |
1:24.4 | previous location. She went back to get it around 3 p.m. |
1:28.7 | and never made it back with her friends. |
1:31.1 | When she failed to come home in time for dinner that night, |
1:33.8 | April's mother reported her missing, and pretty quickly, |
1:36.9 | the Fort Wayne Police Department formed a search that included 250 of their officers |
1:41.6 | and 50 more volunteers. |
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