"Ready for this to end"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On Feb. 5, 1981, 14-year-old Deanie Peters went missing from Ada, Mich. Decades later, investigators have announced an arrest tied to the case. WZZM reporter Brent Ashcroft shares what happened. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, I think these people are certainly ready for this to end.
0:03.9	And at this very moment, having with an arrest, this is the closest it's been to that in 40 years.
0:11.3	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:13.6	You're listening to The Daily Crime. On the night of February 5th, 1981,
0:28.8	14-year-old Dini Peters was attending her brother's wrestling meet
0:32.8	at a middle school in Ada, Michigan.
0:35.6	She got up to use the restroom, walked out of the gym,
0:38.5	and was never seen again. I didn't see a graduate from junior high. I wouldn't see a regent
0:43.0	from high school. I wouldn't see her married or have children. So you think about that all the time.
0:47.3	Somebody out there knows what happened, and I hope and pray that they don't take it to their grave before I go.
0:55.7	It has become one of the longest warning mysteries in West Michigan.
0:59.1	What happened to Deanie Peters?
1:01.0	Decades later, there's been an arrest.
1:06.4	Brent Ashcroft with WZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1:10.0	You've been covering the case of
1:11.5	Deanie Peters for years now. Tell us about her disappearance all the way back in February of
1:16.5	1981. Yeah, Reed, thanks for having me. This has been one of the biggest mysteries not only in
1:23.7	West Michigan for the last 40 years, but in the entire state of Michigan. I believe this is
1:29.4	one of, if not the longest cold cases running in the state. What ended up happening was she
1:35.7	literally did just disappear, like you said. She got up, went to the bathroom, and was literally
1:40.2	never seen again. Friends, her fellow students at Forest Hill Central Middle School
1:46.5	were baffled, could not figure out what was going on. They didn't understand what happened.
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