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The Terrifying Predator of Thumb Butte Trail & Disappearance of Emma Fillipoff - Twisted News

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today we’re looking into an unlikely predator who stalked the hiking trails of Arizona... and a young woman who was last seen barefoot outside a hotel in Canada when she vanished. Get ready for Scary Mysteries Twisted News.📽 Our Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/scarymysteries🎧 Our Other Podcast - Every Town: https://everytown.buzzsprout.com🎧 EXCLUSIVE PODCAST EPISODES: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1235579/subscribe 💀 Follow Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scarymysteries 💀 Follow Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrew.fitzg👁 Follow Our TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewfitzgerald💥 Follow Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scarymysteriesofficial🗣 Business Inquiries: scarymysteries1@gmail.com Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Twisted News everyone, I'm Andrew and today we're looking into an unlikely

0:06.0

predator who stalked the hiking trails of Arizona, a young woman who was last seen barefoot

0:12.1

outside a hotel in Canada when she vanished.

0:16.2

Error of a scary mysteries Twisted News 1.

0:22.9

The Predator of Thumb-View Trail

0:28.2

The cool early morning hours of June 13, 1987, Prescott, Arizona's Thumb-View Trail

0:35.9

echoed with a chilling scream that ran across the Arizona desert.

0:41.1

That scream belonged to 23-year-old college student, Kathy Spasito, a name that would soon

0:47.5

become synonymous with one of Prescott's most haunting mysteries.

0:53.4

Kathy that day had embarked on a solitary hike along that trail, a path popular among

0:59.4

locals and tourists alike.

1:02.3

The natural beauty of the place and close proximity to downtown Prescott made it an emblem

1:07.7

of serenity and safety, where joggers and hikers would breathe in the crisp air and admire

1:13.8

the vastness of the landscape.

1:17.1

So no one was expecting that on this day such a serene location would turn into a site

1:23.2

of horror.

1:26.1

Other hikers would recount hearing or harrowing cries for help, but at the time they managed

1:31.4

to locate the source, it was too late.

1:33.8

Got these life have been brutally taken.

1:37.3

She'd been bludgeoned with a rock and a wrench, suffered a gunshot wound to her eye and

1:42.2

finally, a stab fatally in the head.

1:46.7

This was no random act of violence.

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