The Murder of Cathy Sposito

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In 1987, college student Cathy Sposito was brutally murdered while hiking in Yavapai County, Arizona. Decades later, through the efforts of volunteers and advances in genetic genealogy, her case and others were solved, providing closure to victims' families. Thank you to Elizabeth Atwood for your help in researching the episode! If you’re interested in becoming a cold case volunteer with Yavapai County, visit Cold Case Volunteers YCSOAZ.gov. Thank you to this week’s sponsors! Lume’s Starter Pack is perfect for new customers. It comes with a Solid Stick Deodorant, Cream Tube Deodorant, two free products of your choice (like Mini Body Wash and Deodorant Wipes), and free shipping. As a special offer for listeners, new customers GET $5 OFF a Lume Starter Pack with code MOMS at LumeDeodorant.com. Remember, it only takes 10-20 minutes a day to reshape your body. Head to TotalGymDirect.com/MOMS for an additional 20% off your order. Plus that includes a FREE AbCrunch attachment AND free shipping. Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/MOMS. To advertise on the show, contact [email protected] or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/MomsandMysteriesATrueCrimePodcast. New merch! Check out Moms and Mysteries Threadless! You can also get new episodes a day early and ad free, plus merch and more at Patreon.com/momsandmysteriespodcast Listen and subscribe to Melissa’s other podcast, Criminality!! It’s the podcast for those who love reality TV, true crime, and want to hear all the juicy stories where the two genres intersect. Subscribe and listen here: www.pod.link/criminality Check-out Moms and Mysteries to find links to our tiktok, youtube, twitter, instagram and more! Make sure you subscribe and rate our show to help others find us! Sources AZ Family Digital News Staff, Pulled from the grave: Man tied to decades-old Prescott college student's murder, AZ Family, 2023 N/A, Cathy Sposito's killer ID'd 36 years after college student murdered on Arizona trail, CBS News, 2023 Corrado, Brent, Garcia, Nicole, Cathy Sposito: Man who killed Arizona woman linked to other crimes, sheriff says, FOX 10, 2023 N/A, Bryan Bennett - Genealogy Explained, Genealogy Explained, 2023 N/A, Police say killer in nearly 36-year-old Arizona cold case died by suicide in Kentucky | News, Wdrb.com, 2023 N/A, Police ID killer in 1987 cold case on hiking trail that has haunted Yavapai County, Associated Press, 2023 Winters, Debra, Sheriff's Office links 1987 Sposito murder, other assaults to man who killed himself in 1994, The Daily Courier, 2023 Smith, Fred, 3 Are Sought to Help Find Hiker's Killer, Arizona Republic, 1987 N/A, Rocks Studied in Hiker's Slaying, Arizona Republic, 1987 Smith, Fred, 2 Rocks Examined in the Dath of Arizona Hiker on Prescott Butte, Arizona Republic, 1987 Remaining sources can be found at momsandmysteries.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to. Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast a true crime
0:27.2	podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa hi Melissa.
0:31.1	Hi Melissa. Hi Mandy how how are you? I am doing great. I am living the dream truly.
0:38.6	I really like the positivity and that sounds really really good. The weather's
0:47.1	been so beautiful. I didn't mean to do the weather. It has it's been really nice so
0:50.8	you know it we're done this was like our last
0:53.7	that's a point positive for us yeah yeah we needed it so we're about to go into
0:58.4	a hellfire for the next few months but yeah kids are my kids are on spring break this week and I or not yeah we talked
1:06.5	about this earlier today Melissa that my kids are on the weirdest schedule when it comes to having breaks from school so they go to a
1:15.2	private school but they don't follow any of the local county's schedule.
1:20.2	So we have like breaks at random times. I have always like joked around and been like I think we have a week off every six weeks. Well I ended up figuring out that's actually true. So we're not on spring break. We actually don't have our spring break until the week after Easter, so the first week in April, but we had winter break back in February,
1:38.0	not to be confused with Christmas break, which was back in December.
1:43.0	But yeah, so we just have tons of breaks and we're not on break right now, but I'm very happy that you are.
1:48.0	But we are on a break from soccer this week because everyone else is on spring break.
1:54.0	So yeah, so when we're on spring break, we'll still have to go to soccer.
1:57.4	Everyone else gets the whole entire week off this week.
2:00.4	I don't ever get a whole entire week off.
2:02.0	So that's just how things go for me.
2:05.0	You know I get it I really do because same thing we have spring break but then my son has
2:09.5	therapy every day like it just never ends. Yeah, it doesn't end. Yeah, so yeah, we're living the dream. There you go. We are really truly
2:18.5	living the dream. Yeah, so I am really excited to get into the story this week just mostly, of course it's a very
2:27.6	tragic story, but I'm excited to get into it because I feel like it's really interesting
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