For almost three years, the case of Katerina Wreath's brow languished without information or

evidence that could bring a true ending to the search for answers. And then, when someone was

finally arrested, charged, and convicted of her murder, a hard-fought battle by the suspect's own sister unearthed evidence

in a dusty courthouse basement that changed everything about the case nearly two decades later.

Now, just this year, 2025, investigative genetic genealogy has identified the person

that investigators believe is actually culpable for

Katerina's death. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Katarina Reitz-Brough on Darkdowneast.

It was around 10.45 a.m. on the morning of May 21st, 1980, and a family member was just arriving at the home of 48-year-old Katarina Reitzbrow for a visit. As she stepped up to the front door of seven and a half Rosewood

Avenue in Air, Massachusetts, knocking once and then again, she was met with silence.

With a tentative turn of the doorknob, the woman stepped inside to find a terrifying scene.

The kitchen was spattered with blood. A TV was chattering away and the kitchen faucet was running,

but Catarina wasn't anywhere she could see. She tried calling out for her, but again was meant with

nothing. It wasn't until Air Police arrived at the scene that Catarina was finally located.

She was deceased in her bedroom. The autopsy found that she was

stabbed 30 times. Five of the stab wounds penetrated her heart. According to reporting by the

Evening Gazette, police believed that Katarina had been attacked while she was washing dishes,

and her assailant was either voluntarily let in, meaning it was someone Katarina may have known and trusted,

or they'd entered through an unlocked door

because there were no signs of forced entry.

Yet there were signs of a struggle everywhere.

Court records indicate that the attack began in the kitchen

and Katarina fought back with a fury. She struggled with the assailant through the house began in the kitchen and Katerina fought back with a fury.

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