MURDERED: Mia Zapata

The Murder Diaries

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 755 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 1993 27 year old musician and The Gits frontwoman, Mia Zapata, left her friend’s apartment around 2AM. An hour later, her body was found. She had been murdered. The drawstrings from her own band’s sweatshirt had been used to strangle her. It would take over a decade before Mia would receive justice. This is her story… RESOURCES: Link to The Gits Documentary (2005): https://dai.ly/x2fn41o Unsolved Mysteries – Season 8, episode 9 (Aired 2/1/1996) Forensic Files Season 12 Ep 7 Video of RatHouse https://www.youtube.com/user/KristinNirvana/about Monty Python clip: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ce6d6081-6c0a-41eb-93db-2c34df9c55f0 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mia-zapata-murderer-dead-1170206/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mia_Zapata https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2014/03/will-mia-zapata-be-remembered-march-2014 https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Singer-s-killer-gets-37-years-1143741.php https://web.archive.org/web/20130406042509/http://thegits.com/?page_id=410 https://casefilepodcast.com/case-77-mia-zapata/ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930826&slug=1717883 https://musicoholics.com/first-look/that-one-fateful-night-what-happened-to-mia-zapata/ https://nehistripes.com/2018/07/27/legendary-status-mia-zapata-and-the-gits-more-than-30-years/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mia-zapata-punk-musician-murdered-in-1993-changing-seattle-grunge-scene-694965/ https://www.thestranger.com/news/2003/01/16/13100/finally https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mia-zapatas-killer-convicted-255027/ https://caselaw.findlaw.com/wa-court-of-appeals/1329872.html http://www.louisvillemusicnews.net/webmanager/index.php?WEB_CAT_ID=50&storyid=2905&headline=Zapata_Murder_Trial_Verdict https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2014/03/will-mia-zapata-be-remembered-march-2014 https://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/09/zapata/ Music Used: Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Chill Wave by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3498-chill-wave License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.1	the Murder Diaries podcast. We bonded over tacos and true crime after we matched on Bumble BFF.
0:51.9	You know, like any normal millennial using an app to meet new friends.
0:55.7	Every Thursday, we upload a new episode.
0:58.3	In each episode of the Murder Diaries, we tell true crime one story at a time.
1:03.4	One week, it's my turn.
1:05.0	And the next week, it's mine.
1:07.6	You still think it's in my head, but I'm walking with the day.
1:21.1	Listen, we never know how to start when we have things to say before we actually get into the episode.
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