TENDERED HEARTED SINGER SONGWRITER "MUTILATED" WALKING DOG, ATLANTA'S PIEDMONT PARK

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Katherine “Katie” Janness takes her dog Bowie for a walk in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. after seeing her girlfriend, Emma, who was working down the street as a bartener. After work, Emma went home, but Katie wasn’t there. Emma calls Katie's cell phone, then texts. Emma goes out to look for Katie.

Emma uses the Find My iPhone app on Katie's phone. It shows Katie's phone is about 100 yards inside Piedmont Park, which was very close to Katie and Emma's home, Emma thinks maybe Katie had dropped the phone, so she goes into the park to find it, but what she finds is a very gruesome scene. The first thing she saw was Bowie. Bowie was dead. Not too far away, Emma finds Katie's body.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Dale Carson - High Profile Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent, Former Police Officer (Miami-Dade County), Author: "Arrest-Proof Yourself, DaleCarsonLaw.com
Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Angela ArnoldMD.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital, Voted My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice 2022 to 2024
Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective, Host of YouTube channel- ‘The Interview Room’, ColdCaseFoundation.org
Dr. Kendall Crowns- Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University
Eric Perry - Anchor/Reporter at Fox 5 Atlanta (WAGA)

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0:00.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:06.0	Breaking news tonight, a beautiful and tender-hearted singer-songwriter mutilated, dead, while walking her dog in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.
0:17.7	Could Dog DNA crack the case? Why weren't any of the Park surveillance cameras working that night of all
0:27.0	nights? Tonight, who murdered singer-songwriter Katie Janice.
0:33.0	Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories.
0:36.0	Thank you for being with us.
0:38.0	Atlanta 911, operator 795 now.
0:40.0	We'll see address to your emergency.
0:42.0	Sir, I'm at the see your emergency. Sir, I'm at the entrance to a B-my-park.
0:45.0	I just was searching for my girlfriend, because I got a heart that she's bad.
0:49.0	She's here at B-my B-my-my-B-B-M-B-B-M-B-I,
0:51.0	please help.
0:52.0	She said, I'm going to be my heart? You said somebody said they'd be my heart?
0:54.0	Yes, help.
0:56.0	Please send help.
0:58.0	Please. All right, yes ma'am, I'm going to send help for you.
1:01.0	Oh my God. Why is this case unsolved?
1:05.0	Why is this case unsolved?
1:09.0	Katie brutally murdered her body mutilated and plain view in the park for Pete's sake.
1:19.6	A park that many of us have jogged around and around, gone to picnics, gone to concerts, right there in plain view.
1:30.0	Why is this case not solved? You were hearing part of the 911 call that tells me a lot after I dissect it, but listen to more.
1:40.0	Where is she having apart?
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