The Brutal Unsolved Murder of Katie Janness & Her Dog Bowie (Patreon Unlocked)

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society Podcast.

In July 2021, Katie and Bowie were taking a late-night walk through Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. This was their routine as Katie worked as a bartender.

When Katie did not arrive as scheduled to pick up her partner Emma from work, Emma set out to look for her. She used a phone tracking app and discovered that Katie’s phone was in Piedmont Park. Emma went to the park and there she discovered the lifeless bodies of both Katie and Bowie.

Katie had been brutally stabbed to death - she had 50 stab wounds to her face, neck and torso. The letters F A T had also been carved into her body.

Now, four years later, the murders of Katie and Bowie remain unsolved. A $25,000 reward is being offered for information in the case.

Read our blog for Katie and Bowie here - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2025/08/11/the-unsolved-murder-of-katie-janness-and-her-dog-bowie/

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Stephanie here. This week we have a little treat for you guys. This episode is an episode from
0:06.2	Patreon that we are releasing as a regular episode. So it's only been available on Patreon until now.
0:12.9	And if you join us on Patreon for around a dollar a week, you can get all of our main episodes without any ads.
0:18.6	And we also do an extra bonus episode every week. Some of our
0:22.5	recent Patreon episodes have included a series about the Travis Decker case, the disappearance of
0:27.5	Brandon Swanson, and an episode featuring some terrifying celebrity stalkings. It's a great place
0:33.3	for us to do some episodes on cases that aren't really long enough for a full episode yet so check
0:40.7	us out over there we also have a great community where we talk about things like crime obviously
0:46.2	we do book reviews we talk more about our lives peep is here she's yelling keep you want
0:53.4	everyone to join Patreon?
0:56.6	She does.
0:58.1	So check us out over there.
1:00.5	You can visit us at patreon.com
1:02.4	slash true crime society.
1:04.2	Hopefully we'll see you guys there.
1:05.4	Thanks.
1:05.8	Bye. What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast, Patreon, with Stephanie and Olivia. It is August 3rd here right now. Again, don't know when this episode will actually come out. So could be current-ish, could be from a month ago. Who knows when you're listening to it. But like we've said,
1:45.9	a billion times or pre-recording to get ahead. To see how it works out when things start happening.
1:53.0	Yeah. So I'm 37 weeks right now, which is crazy as of today. Wow. Really at the end now. So only like three weeks left.
2:05.5	Yeah, it's scary. I'm like, every time anything happens, I'm like, this is it. But my class that I'm
2:13.5	waiting for is the Saturday, and I really want to go to it. So I'm hoping to at least hold out one more week. Then I don't care. Yeah, after that, you'll be ready. Baby, you should be ready. You'll be fine right then. Yeah, even though people are like, you don't really need the class. Like, they're going to help you. It'll just make me feel better. So. Yeah, more prepared. Yeah. Um, Peepe is here. She's screaming her head off. She was.
2:34.3	Olivia heard it. me feel better, so... Yeah, more prepared. Yeah. Um, Peeb is here.
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