Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today is one that's hung over a corner of Wisconsin for decades. In the summer of 1969, a teenage girl walked out of a restaurant after her waitressing shift and was never seen alive again. What turned up later, scattered in pieces across Racine County, told investigators that

they were dealing with someone who had skill, patience, and time. Since then, this case has pulled

detectives in every direction from a coworker whose own family has been pointing the finger at

him for years to a man who terrorized his children

by claiming he was the killer.

And just recently, a new lead surfaced,

one that came straight from a crime junkie episode

to one detective's ears.

This is the story of Stephanie Casberg.

Music This is the story of Stephanie Casberg. This is the story of Stephanie Casperg. Wednesday afternoon July 9th, 1969, was a great time for fishing in Racine County, Wisconsin.

The day was overcast, low 70s with a little drizzle.

If you found just the right spot on Root River, you might catch a ton.

One family out that day chose to set up near an old steel trestle bridge on eight-mile road.

The bridge had actually been condemned a few weeks earlier, like shut down to traffic because it's basically falling apart.

But that hasn't stopped people from coming by, including this family.

At some point, while they're out there, their 10-year-old son makes his way down the riverbank to fish

or just explore or whatever, but something on the water's edge catches his eye.

It's hard to tell what it is from afar. It just looks like this weird, lumpy pile of something,

but definitely not natural to the river. Any kid would be curious. So he inches his way closer and closer,

but he stops himself when he realizes what he's actually looking at. It's a foot. And it sends him

running back to his parents. But the totality of what's there is so much worse.

In several piles along the riverbank, half covered by mud and in a mix of torn brown paper

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