Sophie Sergie Part 2 of 2
DNA: ID
AbJack Entertainment
4.8 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This is part 2 of the case of Sophie Sergie murdered in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1993.
To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link:
https://www.patreon.com/DNAID
To buy DNA ID Merch, visit this link:
https://www.customizedgirl.com/s/dnaidpodcast
Follow DNA: ID on Social Media
on Twitter at- https://twitter.com/DNAIDPodcast
on Facebook at- https://www.facebook.com/DNA-ID-True-Crime-Podcast-103667495017418
on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/dnaidpodcast/
Podcast home page- https://www.spreaker.com/show/dna-id
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4720335/advertisement
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to DNAID. |
| 0:03.0 | Brought to you by Abject Entertainment. |
| 0:05.4 | Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network, |
| 0:09.9 | including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Beyond Bizarre True Crime, Zodiac |
| 0:16.4 | Speaking, Scene of the Crime, and Three Men and a Mystery. |
| 0:21.0 | All of these podcasts are available for you to binge on right now, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:26.5 | Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The |
| 0:40.3 | The Okay, let's pick up where we left off talking about Stephen Downs, who was the man pinpointed |
| 1:11.5 | by the forensic genealogy, and who had resided in Bartlett Hall at the time of Sophie's |
| 1:16.1 | murder. Investigators learned that Downs was currently living in Auburn, Maine. The Maine |
| 1:21.8 | state police worked hand in hand with the Alaska State troopers to surveil Downs. An officer Ham knocked on Downs door with a ruse of investigating some car break-ins in the neighborhood |
| 1:32.0 | to try to get a sense of whether Downs lived alone and get his phone number. It worked. |
| 1:37.4 | They started following Downs, hoping to grab a surreptitious DNA sample by gathering up something he discarded in public. |
| 1:45.4 | But even though they surveilled him for weeks, they didn't manage to obtain anything qualifying. He didn't put his trash out for weeks on end. |
| 1:51.9 | They also implemented wiretaps of Downs' phone, thanks to Officer Hamm getting his cell phone number, |
| 1:57.7 | in hopes of catching him saying anything incriminating. They put a pole camera up on a |
| 2:02.5 | utility pole across the street from his house to try to establish a pattern of habits and movements. |
| 2:08.0 | Investigator McFerrin was able to watch the poll footage and listen to Downs phone calls from |
| 2:12.7 | his office thousands of miles away in Anchorage. They surveilled Downs for over a month. |
| 2:18.6 | Finally, they decided it was time to move. |
| 2:21.9 | On February 13, 2019, members of the Maine State Police knocked on the door of the Auburn home where Stephen Downs was living. |
| 2:30.1 | The troopers had decided it would be much less threatening to Downs if they had local authorities |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AbJack Entertainment, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of AbJack Entertainment and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.