Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and the story I have for you today

is one that has left me so frustrated on so many levels and for so many people.

It's another prime example of how the ripple effect of a murder

can engulf the lives of everyone around it

and cause irreparable damage. This is the story of Christie Mullins. Oh, Clintonville, Ohio is one of those quintessential suburbs that seems perfect for raising a family.

It's in everybody, knows everybody type of place.

And back in the 70s, that feeling of neighbors looking out for neighbors is apparent.

But at about 2.30 in the afternoon on Saturday, August 23rd, 1975, that veneer of safety is

shattered when police get a call from a man who wants to report that he's

found a body in a wooded area behind a local shopping center. When investigators

get there they meet the caller 25-year-old Henry Newell. And Henry is able to lead them

about three quarters of a mile into the woods, and back there, laying in the brush, is the brutally

beaten body of a girl.

And Brett, when I say brutal, I mean, this girl is unrecognizable because there is just so much damage to her face.

Her hands have been tied in front of her with a plastic coated wire, her top

has been pulled down around her waist, and they notice that she is barefoot. Now even though they don't

or can't recognize her, they can tell that she's

young, likely in her teens, so they're hopeful that IDing her isn't going to take long,

like someone has to be looking for this girl.

So as some officers and texts begin processing the scene,

other investigators speak to Henry

to find out what he was doing back there in the first place.

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