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48 Hours

Post Mortem | Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier’s Wife

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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48 Hours Correspondent Peter Van Sant and Field Producer Kat Teurfs discuss John Blauvelt, a one-time military recruiter who went on the run with his teenage girlfriend after stabbing his wife, Cati, to death. When U.S. Marshals finally tracked him down six years later, he was using a different name and living with a new girlfriend across the country. They discuss the murder weapon, the pirate tattoo authorities used to identify Blauvelt, and the journal where he wrote "I did it." 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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Welcome back to 48 hours post-mortem. I'm your host Anne Marie Green, and today we are talking to correspondent Peter Vance and field producer Kat Turfs about the case of John Blavelt, a military recruiter found guilty of stabbing his young wife, Katie, in Simpsonville, South Carolina, back in 2016.

1:31.4

However, before authorities had enough evidence to arrest him for murder, he went on the run

1:37.1

with his 17-year-old girlfriend, Hannah Thompson. So, Peter, Kat, thank you so much for joining us.

1:44.1

Hi, Ann Marie. Hi, Anne-Marie. Great to be back. And a reminder to Kat, thank you so much for joining us. Hi, Ann Marie. Hi, Ann Marie. Great to be back.

1:46.7

And a reminder to everyone, if you haven't actually watched this 48 hours or listen to it,

1:51.3

you can find it in your podcast feed just below this one. Go listen and then come on back so we can

1:57.1

have this conversation. So I want to start things off by talking about the weapon. It's a knife,

2:03.5

and it's not a particularly large knife. And I know when I saw it, I thought you have to get so

2:08.9

close to someone to kill them with this knife. It has to be sort of an intimate engagement.

2:15.0

Peter, you were in the room with the murder weapon. I'm wondering what it was like.

2:19.6

I know you've seen a lot of different pieces of evidence in murder cases, but what was it like to be

2:24.3

in the room with this piece of evidence? It's a real solemn, heartbreaking moment. This is the weapon

2:30.7

that was one of the last things that Katie Blavelt saw on this earth. It was selected by

2:36.7

her killer. This killer was a trained soldier. He knew how to use knives. And Kinley-A-B., the

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