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Unsolved Mysteries

911 Confession

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After a 911 caller tells police he strangled a woman and left her body on the living room floor of a Michigan home, police find 48-year-old Sara Knight, her body covered with a sheet, her cell phone, and the names of family and friends to contact beside her. The caller is quickly identified as Sara’s husband, Harold “Butch” Knight, who fled to Maine and then vanished into thin air. Six years later Butch Knight remains a fugitive, and Sara’s grieving friends and family continue to fight for justice. To find out more about this case visit: https://unsolved.com/podcasts/911-confession/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:55.6

On a bitterly cold Tuesday in January 2015, the home of Harold and Sarah Knight is quiet and dark.

1:21.6

Located in Fenville, Michigan, the house sits on a rural road about 20 miles from the blustery shores of Lake Michigan.

1:28.9

Inside, the furnace has been turned off, and it's so cold the water in the toilet has frozen over.

1:34.8

In the living room, there's a sheet draped across the middle of the floor,

1:39.2

and underneath it is a shocking sight.

1:41.6

The icy corpse of 48-year-old Sarah Knight. She's been strangled to death.

1:55.6

I'm Steve French, and this is Unsolved Mysteries, 9-1-1 Confession.

2:01.1

That day, I remember it because it was so bitterly cold.

2:14.7

It was one of those days that if you're standing outside, I mean, you felt that your ears were burning,

2:19.9

your fingers. I mean, you couldn't stand more than a couple of minutes outside.

2:22.9

You had to, you know, get some place and get warm.

2:25.2

At the time of the unusual 9-1-1 call on January 13, 2015, Craig Gardner is a veteran case detective with the Alligan County Sheriff's Department.

2:35.7

I was sitting in the office, and we received a call from our central dispatch saying that they got an anonymous call to this batch center,

2:44.4

and the caller stated that he had killed her, he had strangled her, and she is dead, and that she's laying on the living room floor,

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