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DEVIANT

The Murder Of Christy Mirack

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In December 1992, 25-year-old teacher Christy Mirack is attacked in her East Lampeter, PA apartment just minutes before she’s supposed to leave for work. Investigators find signs of a violent struggle and a full DNA profile from her killer, but there's no match. For more than twenty-five years, the case sits in limbo as state and national databases expand with no hits. In this episode, host Dan Szematowicz follows the investigation from the original crime scene, through decades of unanswered questions, to the breakthrough that finally identified her killer: a discarded water bottle, a strand of chewed gum, and a new forensic tool that didn’t exist in 1992. And even after a guilty plea and a life sentence, one question still has no answer...why? SUPPORT THE SHOW: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast SOURCES: Lancaster County District Attorney Press Releases Pennsylvania Supreme Court Order (2025) Pennsylvania State Police DNA Match (via DA statements) LancasterOnline / LNP Coverage Associated Press ABC27 / WGAL / CBS21 Reports WHYY / NPR Pennsylvania Court Records: Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is it. The world, as you know, it is over. Completely done. It's not about to be over. It's over.

0:09.1

Some of the scientists who helped build AI are now sounding the alarm.

0:13.5

I was selling AI as a great thing for decades, and I was wrong. I was wrong. There is a longer term existential threat

0:24.4

that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves. We have

0:30.1

no idea whether we can stay in control. While others say that AI will usher in unfathomable abundance,

0:36.6

I've always believed that it's going to be

0:38.2

the most important invention that humanity will ever make.

0:41.2

This really will be a world of abundance.

0:44.0

And among these fears and these fantasies,

0:46.6

we seek the story of our future.

0:49.4

Listen to the last invention

0:51.2

on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music,

0:53.5

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:03.5

Sometimes a crime should just be open and shut. All the evidence is there. The physical evidence.

1:10.1

The forensic evidence. The facts The physical evidence. The forensic evidence.

1:12.0

The facts of the crime.

1:13.6

The timing.

1:14.9

Everything lines up.

1:16.4

DNA is recovered.

1:18.2

Stack all those things on top of each other.

1:20.7

And police usually have their person pretty quickly.

1:24.2

Sometimes, though, even though everything adds up, could take years decades or never in this episode we talk about one of those cases and how in law enforcement just like in the rest of life sometimes the harder you work the luckier you get. This is Deviant.

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