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Unsolved Mysteries

Recruiter on the Run

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

After 22-year-old Cati Blauvelt is found stabbed to death in the basement of an abandoned party house in Simpsonville, SC, her estranged husband, Army Recruiter John Blauvelt, swears he hasn’t seen her in months. Weeks later, John is AWOL, with his new teenage girlfriend in tow. The girlfriend eventually turns up in Oregon but, six years later, John Blauvelt is still on the run, while Cati’s loved ones pray for justice to be served. To find out more about this case visit: https://unsolved.com/podcasts/recruiter-on-the-run/ 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

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0:56.8

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1:04.4

It's just a horrible person. I think he just like looks for this high in life that he just wasn't

1:10.6

getting through the military, through marriages, through kids, through drugs, through drinking,

1:16.0

and he just kept pushing and pushing until he got it. I just hope he's not out there hurting anybody else.

1:24.8

I'm hurting anybody else's family the way he did mine. He's done enough damage.

1:37.9

It's October 24th, 2016. 22-year-old Katie Boydder Blavvelt is finishing her shift at a pet store

1:44.9

in her hometown of Simpsonville, South Carolina. As she leaves the store, her cell phone rings.

1:50.5

It's her 18-year-old niece asking Katie to hang out. They make plans to meet in one hour,

1:56.1

but Katie never arrives. Calls and text messages to Katie's phone go unanswered.

2:01.7

Her family has no idea where she could be. Two days later, Katie is found, stabbed to death in

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