Cathy Sposito Part 1 of 2

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Episode 100 Cathy Sposito Part 1 of 2

In April 1987, Cathy Sposito was brutally killed on a popular, scenic hiking trail in broad daylight in Prescott Arizona. Despite multiple earwitnesses to her murder, her killer eluded police. A massive investigation turned up two prime suspects, but there was no smoking gun. Then, a 1990 sexual assault on the same trail mirrored the MO, and again, the killer escaped. This time, the survivor was able to describe her attacker, but his identity remained unknown. The two crimes were linked only theoretically until DNA evidence connected them, and tied them to the same man. And that man was given a name by forensic genealogy, which solved the two cases at once.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
0:03.0	Brought to you by Abject Entertainment.
0:05.3	Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network,
0:09.7	including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac Speaking,
0:16.4	Beyond Bizarre True Crime, Citizen Detective, and Campus Killings.
0:21.9	All of these podcasts are available for you to binge on right now, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:27.4	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
0:40.3	The It was 1987.
1:14.6	It was 1987. Russell Haney had a job to do. Someone was paying him to reserve one of the in-demand picnic tables in the camping area at Thumbute State Park. It was a summer weekend
1:20.6	and a local Prescott, Arizona family, was planning a large party at the park for friends and relatives.
1:26.6	So they paid Russell, who was a
1:28.4	transient, lived in the park, and worked odd jobs to sit at one of the, quote, better tables,
1:33.6	and hold it for them until the party kicked off around 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 13th.
1:39.7	Russell took his role seriously and arrived at the Thumb Butte Park picnic area at 6.30 a.m.
1:45.6	He selected a table stationed at the base of the trailhead that fed into the two trails ascending to Thumb Butte.
1:52.6	Sitting there, Russell had nothing but time to observe his surroundings.
1:56.8	And at 7 a.m. or so, a young woman came peddling up on her bike.
2:01.5	Russell noticed that the young woman was wearing red shorts and a 7 a.m. or so, a young woman came peddling up on her bike. Russell noticed that the young woman was wearing red shorts and a blue backpack and a bright yellow
2:06.2	bike helmet. Her long, dark hair spilled out from under the helmet. She pulled up and chained
2:11.5	her bike to the Forest Service sign, took off her helmet, strapped it to her backpack, and started
2:16.5	toward Thumbute. As she passed him,
2:19.2	Russell briefly said hello to her, and she responded before trekking up the East Trail Hill.
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