The Trail Went Cold – Episode 249 – Sarah Saganitso

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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June 12, 1987. Flagstaff, Arizona. After finishing her shift at the Flagstaff Medical Center, 40-year old Navajo woman Sarah Saganitso never returns home and her nude body is found in a nearby wooded area the following day. Her exact cause of death is asphyxiation via suffocation and there appear to be bite marks around her […]

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0:21.2	June 12th, 1987.
0:24.5	Flagstaff, Arizona
0:26.1	After finishing her shift at the Flagstaff Medical Center, 40-year-old Navajo woman Sarah
0:31.7	Sagan-Nitso never returns home and her nude body is found in a nearby wooded area at the following day.
0:38.0	Her exact cause of death is his fixation by a suffocation and there appeared to be bite marks
0:43.2	around her left breast. Nearly two months later, a suspect named George Abney is charged with
0:48.8	the murder after making confession which he maintains was coerced. At trial, Abney's defense
0:54.9	team alleges that the crime is linked to witchcraft and was committed by a Navajo skinwalker.
1:00.1	Since the jury winds up acquitting Abney, the actual truth about Sarah's murder remains up for
1:05.2	debate. After that, the trail went cold.
1:36.1	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:48.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be looking at what is undoubtedly one of the
1:52.8	most bizarre crimes we've ever covered on this podcast, the 1987 murder of Sarah Sagan-Nitso.
1:59.7	Throughout the month of October, I've been counting down to Halloween by releasing episodes
2:04.2	about unsolved cold cases which are alleged to have ties to supernatural elements and debunking
2:09.6	some of the misinformation and sensationalistic details which have sometimes spread about these
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