230 - The Murder of Trisha Meredith

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On an unseasonably warm night in Northwest Indianapolis, nineteen year old Trisha Meredith made the two minute walk from her new apartment to the laundry room. Accompanied by her boyfriend, he went back to make a call while Trisha stayed behind. Sometime during the thirty minutes, an unknown killer entered the room and attacked Trisha.

Evidence at the scene showed Trisha had fought, tooth and nail, against her assailant. She sustained multiple defensive wounds before she sought shelter, trying unsuccessfully to squeeze behind a washing machine to avoid the blade of her attacker. When her boyfriend returned, he found Trisha bleeding profusely after being thrown into a utility closet.

The crime occurred in broad daylight, at a busy time of day, in a wide open laundry room with a massive set of windows in front, giving passersby a clean and unimpeded view. Yet, there were no witnesses to either the murder or the killer's escape. Nearly four decades later, the truth of that bitter evening remain unknown and Trisha's killer is still unidentified.

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0:00.0	19-year-old Trisha Meredith was on the precipice of a bright new future.
0:13.5	Moving out of her family home, she and her boyfriend became tenants at the Spring Hill
0:17.5	apartments on Indianapolis' northwest side.
0:21.1	While it was an exciting time for Trisha, it was also a scary one.
0:25.4	She'd never lived away from home before and confessed to her mother that when she was alone,
0:29.8	she couldn't help but feel frightened and vulnerable.
0:33.2	Less than a week after moving in, Trisha would be brutally murdered in the apartment complex's
0:39.0	laundry room. She was found in a small utility closet, having been stabbed and sliced more
0:45.3	than two dozen times by an unknown assailant who vanished into the early evening light.
0:50.8	Somehow, despite an intense struggle in a grizzly and bloody scene,
0:55.0	no one had been witnessed to the attack nor to the killer's escape.
0:59.3	It was a horribly brutal murder pulled off in broad daylight at a busy time of day
1:05.1	right in front of a giant bay window that faced out to dozens of apartment balconies,
1:10.3	windows and doors. This is Trace Evidence, Episode 230, the murder of Trisha Meredith.
1:20.6	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.
1:32.3	Today, we examine the unsolved 1986 murder of 19-year-old Trisha Meredith.
1:38.6	Right, compassionate, driven and loving, Trisha was thrilled to begin the next chapter of her
1:43.9	life. Unfortunately, that life would be cut short by a brutal and vicious killer who found her alone
1:51.0	in a small laundry room at her new apartment complex. In a span of less than 10 minutes,
1:57.2	he stole away everything Trisha was and everything she was going to be.
2:02.3	For decades later, he remains at large, free to walk the streets and kill again.
2:08.6	This is the murder of Trisha Meredith.
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