Oakey "Al" Kite // 219

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In 2004, a well-liked man went missing from Aurora, Colorado after dropping his girlfriend off at the airport. When police conducted a wellness check at his home 2 days later, they found him brutally and methodically murdered in his own basement, with no apparent motive and no suspect in sight. But he had recently rented his basement apartment to a stranger…so was this mystery roommate to blame for his gruesome death? This is the story of Oakey “Al” Kite. BONUS EPISODES patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Unidentified: https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Cooper 2. Unresolved: https://unresolved.me/oakey-al-kite 3. The DNA of Murder: https://www.amazon.com/Hotel-Homicide/dp/B07YT166ND/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1B9EIKUUVUQ6N&keywords=the+dna+of+murder&qid=1657316196&sprefix=the+dna+of+murde%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1 4. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/homicides-and-sexual-assaults/victim-oakey-al-kite-jr 5. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25163639/oakey-albert-kite 6. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/e6abxg/new_information_on_the_murder_of_oakey_albert/ 7. NBC: https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/crime/murder-of-aurora-man-remains-unsolved-15-years-later-but-police-still-believe-renter-killed-him 8. Encyclopedia: encyclopedia.com/politics/legal-and-political-magazines/turkish-hezbollah 9. Unsolved: ttps://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Emert 10. Crime Zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJnheMYEXxo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on to crime fans? I'm your host Teeve. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West.
0:20.4	Hello everybody. Thank you so much for joining us for yet another episode of Going West. And also
0:26.0	thank you to Mary Jane for recommending today's case. This is a case that I had heard about before
0:32.4	very briefly, but diving in and realizing just how baffling it really is just wow. So thank you
0:40.2	to Mary Jane for putting this one back on our radar. Yes, thank you so much Mary Jane. Also,
0:45.0	I just wanted to let you guys know that we do have extra episodes of Going West over on our
0:49.8	Patreon. So if you're interested in that, head on over to patreon.com slash going west podcast.
0:54.4	And again, thank you everybody for being here. And thank you everybody for leaving us nice
0:58.6	reviews, commenting and sharing the show. Indeed. Ciao. All right guys. Yeah. I mean, I, I'm not looking
1:05.3	forward to talking about this case because it really is one of those ones that you're just like, oh my
1:08.8	god, it's it's a horrible story. And this man was nothing but nice to everybody around him. It
1:15.2	seemed so I'm just really looking forward to hearing what you guys think about it. Yeah, absolutely.
1:21.8	All right guys, this is episode 219 of Going West. So let's get into it.
1:52.5	In 2004, a well-liked man went missing from Aurora, Colorado after dropping his girlfriend off
2:09.2	at the airport. When police conducted a wellness check at his home two days later,
2:16.4	they found him brutally and methodically murdered in his own basement with no apparent motive
2:24.0	and no suspect in sight. But he had recently rented his basement apartment to a stranger.
2:31.6	So was this mystery roommate to blame for his gruesome death?
2:36.0	This is the story of Oki Al Kite.
2:51.2	Oki Al Kite, Jr. was born on May 7th, 1951 in Rocky Mount Township, North Carolina,
3:08.8	to his mother Edith Davis Kite and his father Oki Al Kite senior. And he also had an older sister
3:15.4	named Barbara Kite. Now to differentiate himself from his dad, Oki Al Kite, Jr. started going by
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