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True Crime Chronicles

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True Crime Chronicles

VAULT Studios

True Crime, News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Seventeen=year-old Mandy Steingasser was last seen alive in Sept. 1993, getting into the vehicle of a classmate after a night out. Decades later, a jury would hear two different stories about what happened next. 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

This is of all studios production.

0:05.0

I'm Reed Redmond.

0:06.0

I'm Will Johnson.

0:07.0

The show contains graphic material and is meant for mature audiences.

0:11.0

This week on True Crime Chronicles.

0:14.0

A dark night in September 1993.

0:17.0

Somebody dragged a body through the brush.

0:19.0

That was the name that always went around.

0:23.0

It is imperative as we move forward to try this case in the courtroom.

0:27.0

I thought I needed an alibi to where I was.

0:32.0

What for?

0:33.0

And they don't have any proof.

0:36.0

You the jury.

0:37.0

You now know what happened to me this night.

0:42.0

It's been more than 28 years since 17-year-old Mandy Steingaser was last seen alive.

1:03.0

She went missing at the end of what was later described in court as an alcohol-fueled night out with friends in North Tonowanda, New York.

1:11.0

A night that ended with her getting into the car of a classmate, 18-year-old Joseph Belstadt.

1:17.0

The night starts out with a party, according to the testimony in the trial.

1:22.0

Dave McKinley, a reporter with WGRZ in Buffalo, has been covering this case for years.

1:27.0

After which, at some point, Joseph Belstadt says that he gave Mandy Steingaser a ride in his car and that that was the last time he'd ever seen her.

1:39.0

Belstadt later told police he was going to drive Mandy home, but instead dropped her off in town just a few minutes after she'd gotten into the car.

1:48.0

He approached them and told them that, yeah, I was with her last night and this is the last night seen ever.

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