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Christina Castiglione Part 2 of 2
This is part 2 of the Christina Castiglione case; if you have not listened to part 1 yet, stop now and go back and listen to that part first.
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0:00.0 | A new cold case squad was organized by Sheriff Bazot in 2009 to address 12 unsolved cases from Livingston County and 60 from Washington County. |
0:10.9 | One of the cases was Christina Castiglione's. |
0:14.0 | The task force continued to investigate tips, leads, area homicides, and similar cases. |
0:20.0 | But their main focus was obtaining DNA samples from |
0:23.5 | men named in the case file. These were men such as Tim N, who was Ronald Y's roommate, |
0:30.0 | Dennis, the phone company guy, all the men who knew Christina, like Mike A, her ex-Ted, and Chris, |
0:36.6 | her boyfriend. The cold case team also focused on a local |
0:40.8 | person of interest, Michael F. Michael F. had been arrested for sex crimes and was a known |
0:46.1 | violent offender, whose crimes were committed in the same general time frame as Christina's murder. |
0:52.3 | He also lived on Fisher Road in Howell, about three |
0:56.0 | quarters of a mile from where Christina's body was dumped in Oak Grove. |
1:01.8 | Anxious to find out whether this guy had killed Christina, the cold case team decided to do a |
1:06.7 | trash pull on him. In October 2011, Detective G. Childers grabbed Michael F.'s trash from outside his |
1:13.7 | house on Fisher Road. He brought the trash to the sheriff's office and pulled out five items that |
1:19.3 | looked like they might contain DNA and sent them to the lab for analysis. They must not have gotten |
1:25.1 | workable DNA because on December 16th and 17th, Detective Childers |
1:29.9 | was planted as a worker at the Brighton, Michigan Meyer store under a fictitious name. |
1:36.2 | His assignment was to obtain DNA from Michael F. who worked in the dairy department. |
1:41.3 | Childers consulted store management who agreed to the scheme and they placed him as a temporary worker in the dairy department on the dairy department. Childers consulted store management who agreed to the scheme and they placed him as a |
1:45.7 | temporary worker in the dairy department on the days that Michael F. worked, pretending that they needed |
1:51.3 | extra help during the busy holiday season. Faining busyness, the detective watched Michael open |
1:57.8 | yogurt boxes using a box cutter, which he would put in his mouth while |
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