Short Stories #4 (The WKCR Radio Hijacking & Kathy Struckhoff)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This episode contains two separate, unrelated stories from the Patreon archive.

In 2013, a user on 4chan posted audio from an alleged radio hijacking that was purported to have taken place in the mid-1990s. Since then, theories have sprung up that the station affected, New York's WKCR, was hijacked in 1995, while others speculate that the audio itself is fabricated.

In 1995, the body of 38-year-old Kathy Struckhoff was found alongside a road in New Port Richey, Florida. She was believed to have last been seen speaking to a suspicious man at a nearby bar, and investigators speculated that the man had been her killer.

Episode researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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0:56.0	Please do not suffer in silence. Hey everyone. It's Michael. Today's episode is a bit different from our usual fare.
1:11.0	Today we are going to hear two episodes from the Patreon archives, both of which are extremely
1:16.0	unnerving and mysterious in their own ways.
1:19.2	The first is an alleged radio hijacking from New York in the mid 1990s, of which details only surfaced about
1:25.7	a decade ago in some online circles.
1:28.6	The second is the unsolved murder of a woman from Florida, which has been almost entirely forgotten over the past 30 years.
1:36.1	Join me, as we try to unpack these two strange stories on this very special episode of Unresolved. W KCR is the radio station in the area of New York City, which can be found by tuning into station 89.9 FM.
2:01.0	The station was originally granted its license by the FCC in October of 1941,
2:07.0	and has remained a constant presence on the New York airwaves ever since.
2:11.0	Originally established to be used by Columbia University's
2:15.0	Radio Club, the C-U-R-C. It has become known as the University's unofficial
2:20.4	radio station in the decade since, which is used to broadcast university-related news and
2:26.1	commentary. WKCR has a long and storied history, but has become notorious in the New York area for helping many jazz, alternative, and hip-hop musicians gain exposure.
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