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🗓️ 5 August 2021
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0:00.0 | Coming up. |
0:01.1 | She left her bike, she was by herself, and started hiking, and then a short time later, people could hear her screaming. |
0:08.6 | For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond. You're listening to The Daily Crime. |
0:28.5 | On June 12, 1987, Kathy Spacito went out to dinner with some friends. |
0:34.2 | What none of them could have realized is that this was the last time they would ever see her alive. |
0:38.7 | To this day, investigators have never made an arrest, and a motive has never been clear. Somebody with a lot of rage and anger who wanted to put it into her life. I'm joined by Erica Stapleton, |
0:52.3 | reporter with 12 News in Phoenix, Arizona. |
0:54.9 | Erica, you've been digging into this homicide case from all the way back in 1987. |
1:00.4 | Introduce us to this story. Where does this begin? |
1:03.0 | Well, Reed, as you said, it begins. This woman, Kathy Spacito, she's 23 years old. |
1:09.4 | It's, you know, heading into summertime in Arizona. She's a |
1:12.4 | college student up in Prescott, which is about an hour and a half northwest of Phoenix. It's a |
1:18.8 | beautiful area. There's a lot of hiking, a lot of sceneries. It's kind of the gateway up to, |
1:23.4 | you know, our north country where we have a lot of other great outdoor activities. But she's 23, |
1:29.7 | you know, young, living her life. And the following morning, after she had that dinner with her |
1:36.1 | friends, she told them that she was planning to go and hike at a very popular trail. So she |
1:42.0 | rode her bike there, left her bike on the ground, started hiking, and that was it. |
1:48.2 | She was never, never seen again. |
1:51.3 | She was killed. |
1:52.5 | It was, you know, still hard to comprehend even 34 years later because, you know, there |
1:58.1 | doesn't seem to be any sort of rhyme or reason. |
2:00.2 | It, you know, there was no indication that anyone was, you know, after her. |
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