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🗓️ 30 April 2021
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0:00.0 | Coming up. |
0:02.1 | I mean, this woman is haunted, haunted by this crime. |
0:06.2 | I mean, she will, she still tells me she walks the floors at night and just thinks about her baby brother. |
0:13.8 | For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson. You're listening to The Daily Crime. |
0:21.6 | Early in the morning hours of May 10th, 1980, over four decades ago, a 15-year-old boy was |
0:26.7 | shot and killed in Ohio. |
0:28.8 | Recently, Brian Dugger, lead investigator for WTOL-TOL Channel 11 in Toledo, started looking |
0:34.0 | into the case, and I'm joined by Brian on today's show. |
0:37.2 | So Brian, tell me about this young man, what we know about him and his last night alive. |
0:41.4 | Yeah, Mark DeStefano was a, he was a 15-year-old kid. |
0:45.1 | He had gotten in trouble a couple days before for smoking in the boys' room at his school. And there was a dance on the night of May 10th. |
0:59.4 | And I guess it would have been May 9th because he actually ended up being killed on May 10th. |
1:04.0 | But, uh, so he was not allowed to go to the dance, but he was allowed to go to the after party. So I think what everybody said about |
1:13.6 | Mark is that he was just really a fun-loving guy who always had this big smile. He was the |
1:20.2 | jokester in the family. He was a good-looking kid. He was 15 years old. He had a long, curly hair, slight build, |
1:31.4 | but apparently he had many older girls who really took a liking to him. |
1:37.1 | And just to get a sense of where this is taking place, describe sort of his hometown and where, |
1:44.0 | you know, is this a real rural location or what's it like |
1:46.8 | then and now? |
1:47.8 | Yeah, it's actually Jerusalem Township. |
1:49.8 | It's a little east of, technically a Toledo suburb, and it is very rural. |
1:55.7 | I mean, there's a lot of cornfields out there. |
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