In today's special update episode, we'll look at 10 cases which received updates in the past year.

In some of these cases, the updates have resulted in arrests.

In others, there have been the development of new leads, renewed investigations, and new evidence.

In today's episode, we'll discuss updates from episodes 1, The Mysterious Death of Kurt Sova, 15, The Unexplained Death of Andrew Satic, 16, The Shocking Murder of Candice Hiltz, 29, The Disappearance of Teresa Lynn Butler, 33, The Disappearance of Heather Elvis, 37, The Disappearance of Danielle Stislicke, 52, The Murder of Irina Janolanka, 75, The Disappearance of Christian Ferguson,

and will have two short updates regarding episodes 55 and 64, The Disappearance of Diamond and Tiana Bradley, and The Disappearance of Rachel Cook.

This is Trace Evidence, Case Updates.

Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.

Today we're going to review updates regarding cases previously covered on Trace Evidence.

In each update, I'll give you a summary of the case and then go into new developments.

So, let's get right to it and go to the first case we're going to be reviewing today, which is The Mysterious Death of Kurt Sova, episodes number 1 and 40 of Trace Evidence.

In the first episode of Trace Evidence, I examined The Death of Kurt Sova, a 17-year-old who disappeared for five days and then was found deceased in a ravine in Newberg, Hightso, Ohio.

I revisited Kurt's case in episode 40, including much more information which I hadn't discovered during the research for episode 1.

On Friday, October 23, 1981, Kurt skipped his day at school and later in the night attended a party with a friend.

The party was held in a duplex and many of the attendees were strangers to Kurt and older as well.

According to Kurt's friend, Kurt had been drinking heavily and wasn't feeling well, so he took him outside to get some fresh air.

His friend went back into the duplex to get their coats and when he returned, Kurt was gone.

Five days later, Kurt's body was found in a ravine just 500 feet from the location of the party, but Kurt's father had searched that area days earlier and there had been no signs of his son.

Strangely, when Kurt was examined, his cause of death was listed as instantaneous physiological death.

There was still alcohol in his system and even more strangely, it was determined that he had been dead for between 24 and 36 hours.

If that's true, then the question remains, where was Kurt for the other three and a half to four days that he had been missing?

For the rest of their lives, Kurt's parents fought to find him. They alleged they had been threatened and told to stop asking questions.

However, both passed away and now nearly 40 years later, the truth of what happened to Kurt remains unsolved.

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