S5 Ep107: Invisible Strings

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History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 1981, a 23-year-old woman was dragged kicking and screaming from her East Lansing apartment in front of an entire building full of onlookers. In 1982, a rebellious teen vanished while hitchhiking in a Detroit suburb. In 1983, almost exactly one year later, another pretty brunette teenager disappeared while hitchhiking in the same neighborhood. Three years, three murdered women, three cold cases. One would become the first case in Ingham County to use DNA as evidence. One would be solved through new advancements in DNA technology decades later. And one would be solved by a team of eagle-eyed students at Michigan State University's School of Criminal Justice. But for decades, their grieving families waited for invisible strings to connect and lead to justice.

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0:00.0	This is a Scream Queen production.
0:05.7	These Violet Delights have Violet Ends.
0:13.0	Violet Ends.
0:16.9	Violent ends.
0:19.8	Greetings, Earthlings. Welcome to Violent Ends.
0:23.5	I'm your host, Jen Carpenter.
0:26.1	You want to know what's cool about having your own podcast?
0:31.0	You get to talk about whatever the fuck you want to.
0:34.9	So today I'm going to take a moment to brag about one of my bad-ass friends
0:40.5	and the amazing work that she's doing. Dr. Karen Holt is a criminologist. You guys,
0:48.1	that's how serious shit's getting over here. I'm friends with a criminologist now. How cool is that? She's also an assistant
0:57.3	professor at Michigan State University's School of Criminal Justice. In 2020, she and
1:04.1	Allison Rojak, also a criminologist and an instructor at MSU's School of Criminal Justice, teamed up with the Michigan State Police to form a
1:14.0	collaborative cold case unit comprised of detectives, criminologists, and criminal justice students.
1:23.2	Per the website, this program allows students to engage directly with detectives in the Michigan
1:29.3	State Police First District Cold Case Unit to assist in their investigation of cold case
1:36.1	homicides and other cases across the state. Students will work in our Cold Case Library,
1:42.2	which houses cold cases from across the district.
1:46.4	Students gather, synthesize, and analyze police investigative files, and use such information
1:52.9	to create a victimology for the case, applying theoretical constructs from broke, I knew I was
2:00.4	going to mess that up. Applying theoretical constructs from broke, I knew I was going to mess that up, applying theoretical
2:03.2	constructs from both victimology and criminology. I'm over here unable to speak a sentence
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