The Lewis Clark Valley Murders Part 1: Christina White

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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On the afternoon of April 28, 1979, 12-year-old Christina White disappeared after leaving a friend's home on her bike in the town of Asotin, WA. While no one could have known it then, this would be the first of at least five unsolved disappearances and murders from 1979 - 1982 that would haunt the surrounding community to this day. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological journey through the evolutionary logistics of the crime in an effort to unveil the perpetrator's identity.

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0:14.5	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus joining you once again for a journey into the criminal mind. In this episode, we'll be dissecting the first of an especially fascinating yet horrifying
0:20.5	series of disappearances that have come to be known as the Lewis
0:24.4	Clark Valley murders. From 1979 through 1982, at least five people
0:31.4	mysteriously vanished from a rural region of the United States in the Pacific
0:36.2	northwest, along the border of Washington and Idaho, at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River.
0:44.0	To the west, on the Washington side, sits the town of Clarkston,
0:49.0	which normally has a population of approximately 7,000 residents. To the south of Clarkston, also in
0:56.4	Washington along the Snake River, is a town called Assotan, which has a smaller
1:01.3	population of just 1,251 residents.
1:05.0	Finally, to the east of Clarkston on the other side of the Snake River
1:10.0	sits the largest of the three towns, which is Lewiston, Idaho, population 32817.
1:19.0	Lewiston is bordered on the north by the Clearwater River, while Clarkston is bordered on the north by the Snake River.
1:26.0	At the point the Snake River converges with the Clearwater River, it makes a sharp turn south and constitutes the border between Idaho and
1:36.1	Washington in that region. So we have multiple states, counties, cities, and more specifically criminal jurisdictions at play in the area.
1:47.8	If you were a serial killer from 1979 through 1982, the benefits of such would be entirely apparent. Back in a day, there were no
1:58.5	criminal databases that connected various law enforcement agencies in a way that they could keep one another readily informed of what the other was doing.
2:08.0	In fact, not only was there a technological vacuum present, but due to that reality it was common for the police
2:15.8	in any particular place to not share what they knew with others.
2:21.2	It became defensive and political rather than simply a search for the truth.
2:27.4	And the criminals of the day knew it.
2:29.6	The Zodiac played the strategy to perfection, committing crimes across multiple cities and
2:35.9	jurisdictions in a way that left law enforcement holding their evidence like cards at a poker table,
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