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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

TENDER-HEART SINGER SONGWRITER 'MUTILATED' Walking Dog, Atlanta's Piedmont Park

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Janness, 40, told her fiancee, Emma Clark, she was taking a walk with their dog, Bowie, and was never seen alive again. When Janness failed to return home, Clark reportedly traced the victim by using a phone app and found both Janness and Bowie dead at the entrance of the park. An officer with the Atlanta Police Department said the victim was stabbed numerous times. Joining Nancy Grace today:Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney, Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC, www.ccealaw.comDr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA www.angelaarnoldmd.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum WomenJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadioSheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert, Founder: Cold Case Investigative Research Institute in Atlanta, GA, ColdCaseCrimes.org, @ColdCaseTipsMichael Seiden - Reporter, WSB-TV in Atlanta, Twitter: @SeidenWSBTV, Instagram: @mseiden1120

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together.

0:22.4

Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your

0:28.4

favorite podcast.

0:35.6

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:44.5

How does a beautiful young woman, a singer, songwriter, working multiple jobs,

0:51.6

go for a walk with her dog and end up brutally stabbed dead? Right now, no answers to the

1:01.1

mystery surrounding the death of beautiful Katie Janis.

1:12.7

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:14.4

I want you to hear part of what we have become privy to. This is part of the 9-1-1 call.

1:29.0

Take a listen to our cut one, Tyler Rollett.

1:59.3

Oh my God.

2:02.2

I got an all-narrgitian name.

2:05.3

We're going to play more of that 9-1-1 call, but I wanted you to hear that first,

2:10.8

because a lot of aspersions have been thrown around about the roommate, the partner,

2:18.5

Katie Janis finding the body. I don't go along with that. I think we need to be looking for the

2:26.1

right person, the real killer. You're going to understand what I'm talking about in just one

2:32.4

moment. In the middle of all this, there is talk of a so-called serial killer to muddy the waters.

2:39.9

There is another young girl found dead, about 20 miles away, also murdered in a public park,

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