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Australian True Crime

True Crime Bedtime Stories: The Snapshot Killer

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

True Crime

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today we're featuring an episode from a new podcast, True Crime Bedtime Stories. Click here to listen to their episodes on Apple Podcasts, or simply search for them on your favourite podcast app.

 

Show notes:

 

In today's episode, we'll learn about the kind of man your mother always warned you about.

 

A charming stranger with a camera full of flattery and mystique, a man with a knack for spotting vulnerable young women with stars in their eyes and convincing them they were safe with him.

 

Christopher Wilder would go on to be known as the Snapshot Killer.

 

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0:00.0

We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

0:04.3

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

0:07.4

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

0:10.3

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

0:15.2

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

0:19.9

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. Welcome to True Crime Bedtime stories. bedtime a man with a camera full of flattery and mystique, a man with a knack for spotting vulnerable

0:56.8

young women with stars in their eyes and convincing them they were safe with him.

1:02.2

Christopher Wilder would go on to be known as the Snapshot Killer. Elizabeth Kenyan was a vibrant young woman admired for her warmth and beauty.

1:24.4

At just 23 years of age, she was a beaming presence at Coral Gables High School, where she had

1:30.8

dedicated herself to teaching emotionally disturbed children.

1:35.0

This commitment to helping others was emblematic of her kind-hearted nature,

1:40.0

yet it was clear to those that knew her that Elizabeth also longed for the glamor of the fashion modeling world,

1:47.0

a realm where she had once shown brightly as an orange bowl princess,

1:52.0

and a finalist in the Miss Florida contest. Her life at this

1:57.1

point seemed a balancing act between these two contrasting worlds with her thick brown hair, a resting smile, and a

2:05.4

charismatic energy that drew people to her, Elizabeth made friends

2:10.2

effortlessly. It was this magnetism that inevitably turned men's heads wherever she went,

2:17.0

leaving an indelible impression on those who were fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of her.

2:23.0

On the 4th of March 1984, as she had done on countless weekends before,

2:28.0

Elizabeth set off from her Coral Gables apartment

2:32.0

to visit her parents in Pomompano Beach.

2:35.0

However, this particular weekend was different.

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