S2 Ep48: Reesa Trexler and Christy Mirack

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss two cases. In the first, a teenager is killed in a small city in North Carolina in 1984. For decades, the police had a prime suspect, but are they really the killer?

Then, in 1992, a popular teacher was murdered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. What shocked the people of Lancaster more than the murder, was the man who was convicted of committed it.

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0:00.0	Hello and thanks for joining us for this episode of Into the Killing. Before we start today's
0:05.1	episode, we just want to mention that we recently launched a new YouTube channel called Paranormally
0:09.6	Listed. On that channel, we examine unexplained phenomena. For example, we have videos about
0:15.5	killers who were haunted by the ghosts of their victims, monsters who may have killed people,
0:19.6	and alleged UFO crashes that
0:21.9	predate the Rosmall incident. In the next few weeks, we plan on releasing two videos a week,
0:27.0	so you should check it out. You can find it at YouTube.com slash paranormal listed.
0:32.7	And now, for our first case, we're going back to June 1984.
0:38.3	On June 6, 1984, the video game Tetris was released in the Soviet Union.
0:43.6	It was created by software engineer Alexa Pugitinov, and it was available on the electronica
0:48.4	60, which was a computer sold in the Soviet Union.
0:52.7	Tetris has gone on to be one of the best-selling
0:54.8	video games of all time. On June 8th, an F-5 tornado touched down in the town of
1:00.7	Barnabelle, Wisconsin. The town was nearly destroyed. Nine people were killed, 200 were
1:06.4	injured, and there was $25 million in damage. In June, 1984, 15-year-old Risa Trexler lived in Salisbury, North Carolina.
1:17.6	Salisbury is about 43 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina.
1:22.4	In the 1980s, it had a population of around 22,000 people.
1:32.3	It was the headquarters of the grocery store chain, Food Lion. On June 15th, 1984, Risa had two male friends over at her house.
1:39.3	Risa's sister, 13-year-old Jodi, was also there. It was the first week of summer vacation.
1:47.0	Risa and her friends were watching MTV.
1:51.0	At around 3.30 p.m., Risa's friends left, and she was home alone with her sister, Jody.
1:59.0	At some point, Jody realized that Risa wasn't in the house.
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