Case 282: April Tinsley

Published: May 4, 2024, 7 a.m.

*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***
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\nIn 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne, Indiana received handwritten letters threatening that they would be the next victim of a child killer.
\nAuthorities were immediately concerned. DNA from the letters matched samples they had stored from an unsolved crime that was committed more than a decade earlier \u2013 the murder of eight-year-old April Tinsley.
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\nNarration \u2013 Anonymous Host
\nResearch & writing \u2013 Milly Raso
\nCreative direction \u2013 Milly Raso
\nProduction and music \u2013 Mike Migas
\nMusic \u2013 Andrew D.B. Joslyn
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