149 - The Vanishing of Kathryn Adam

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Thirty-five year old Kathryn Adam had made a decision: she was taking her sixteen year old daughter, leaving her husband and starting a new life. It wouldn't be easy, but she was determined to make it work. Then, just when things seemed to be falling into place the unimaginable happened.

On April 29th, 1993, Kathryn left for work in the early morning hours. She never returned, vanishing along with her van. When her daughter reported her missing, police traced her steps to a storage unit where she kept supplies for her job. There they found a pool of blood and signs of a struggle. Not long after, her van was found abandoned a few miles away. It was caked with mud and there was blood inside.

Was Kathryn Adam the victim of a random crime or did someone who knew her, and her schedule, lie in wait that early morning with a gun and murderous intent?

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0:28.0	third parties' exclusion supply.
0:31.0	The Sun wouldn't rise for another two hours, but 35-year-old Catherine Adam was already
0:44.8	making her way to work.
0:46.9	Climbing into her van, she made the short trip from her apartment to the local convenience
0:51.7	store in Salina, Kansas on the morning of April 29, 1993.
0:57.7	After grabbing a cup of coffee in a newspaper, she was opposed to drive to a nearby storage
1:02.4	facility to pick up supplies for work, but Catherine never made it to work that day.
1:08.5	When she didn't return home, her 16-year-old daughter called police.
1:13.2	Tracing her steps, investigators arrived at the storage park, and while they didn't
1:17.6	find Catherine, they did find a large pool of blood just outside the door.
1:23.7	Not long after, her work van was found abandoned at a local restaurant.
1:29.0	The outside was caked with mud, and the inside was soaked in blood.
1:34.8	Massive searches were launched for Catherine, who investigators believed had been seriously
1:38.9	wounded, but spring and summer flooding eradicated any potential trail.
1:44.2	Salina is surrounded by miles and miles of farmland, forestry, and dirt roads, and she
1:51.0	could have been taken in any direction.
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