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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Summary

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 left breast. Nearly two months later, a suspect named George Abney is charged with the murder after making a confession, but he maintains that it was coerced. At trial, Abney’s defence team alleges that the crime is a ritualistic killing linked to witchcraft which may have been committed by a Navajo “skin-walker” and the jury ends up finding Abney “not guilty”. Was George Abney actually responsible for the murder of Sarah Saganitso? Or was the real killer a practitioner of Navajo witchcraft? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a bizarre case which may be the only documented murder trial in which the crime was blamed on a “skin-walker”. Additional Reading: https://www.newspapers.com/image/516638192/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515977717/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/516635285/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515953068/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515965652/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/121259318/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/121255817/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/121776105/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/121264554/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515964099/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515966377/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/516636809/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515942316/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515950740/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/121028439/ Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:19.2	Enjoy the episode. June 12th, 1987. Flagstaff, Arizona.
0:27.0	After finishing her shift at the Flagstaff Medical Center, 40-year-old Navajo woman, Sarah Saginizso never returns home,
0:33.7	and her nude body is found in a nearby wooded area the following day.
0:37.5	Her exact cause of death is asphyxiation via suffocation,
0:41.6	and there appear to be bite marks around her left breast.
0:45.0	Nearly two months later a suspect named George Abney is charged with the murder
0:49.0	after making a confession which he maintains was coerced.
0:53.3	At trial, Abney's defense team alleges that the crime is linked to witchcraft and was committed
0:58.2	by a Navajo skin walker.
1:00.4	Since the jury winds up acquitting Abney, the actual truth about Sarah's murder remains up for debate.
1:06.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
1:13.0	Oh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, and uh, uh, and uh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:29.8	uh, and uh, uh, and uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:48.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be looking at what is undoubtedly one of the most bizarre crimes we've ever covered on this podcast,
1:56.0	the 1987 murderer of Sarah Segenitzo.
2:00.0	Throughout the month of October, I've been counting down to Halloween by releasing episodes
2:04.2	about unsolved coal cases which are alleged to have ties to supernatural elements, and debunking
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