4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Tammy Zywicki was more than just a headline. In this bonus episode, hear friends and loved ones share their favorite memories of the playful, strong-willed soccer player who was obsessed with cats and knew how to break the ice.
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0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:30.0 | Paper Ghosts is a production of I Heart Radio. |
0:37.0 | In the very first episode of Paper Ghosts, I talked about the importance of hearing from loved ones in a missing person or murder case. |
0:47.0 | We rely on them to introduce us to and humanize a victim, share details about a life that was lost, |
0:54.0 | but more significant to me than anything else, a life that was lived. |
1:01.0 | As a victim's advocate, talking to families and friends is the most moving aspect of any story I cover, |
1:08.0 | and always my starting point into a case. |
1:16.0 | Tammy Zawiki's loved ones painted a beautiful picture of who she was, allowing me a glimpse into who she might have become. |
1:23.0 | Because of time constraints, many of these stories didn't make it into the third season of Paper Ghosts. |
1:30.0 | But I thought it would be a disservice if they went unheard, so I'm sharing them here to help us better understand the amazing young woman behind the headlines. |
1:41.0 | That picture up there, that was taken at the beach we were, or that was our summer vacation. |
1:48.0 | And that's the whole family. |
1:50.0 | How old is she there? |
1:52.0 | I guess she was about maybe 16, or 15 to 16. |
2:01.0 | She liked her long hair. |
2:04.0 | Tammy Zawiki was born on March 13, 1971 in Pleasant Hill, Pennsylvania. |
2:11.0 | Her mom, Joanne, describes her as a good-natured, independent person who was rarely seen without her camera, or her cat. |
2:20.0 | Tell me about that picture there. |
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