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So what if I told you that my podcast helped generate a new lead in a decades-old murder case? For over 50
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years, Stephanie Caspers' murder has remained unsolved. Investigators chased suspects, they followed tips, tested
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evidence, and still haven't identified the person who killed and dismembered her. But then, last summer, something
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unexpected happened. So the lead detective on Stephanie's case, Lieutenant Van Sock, was outside doing
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yard work listening to Crime Junkie, and he was specifically listening to our episode about Kristen David, who was a
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young woman found dismembered in Idaho back in like 1981. Now at the end of that episode, I had made a call out. I
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said that we were looking into a specific man, someone that the FBI had once investigated but never named, in
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relation to multiple dismemberment cases across the country. And as we were looking to track this guy and his
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movements, I was looking for any other cases that might have been overlooked. Cases with specific calling cards,
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surgical-like dismemberment, and a particular part of the body never recovered. Remains found alongside a
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river wrapped in newspaper. When Lieutenant Van Sock heard that, he told us that he basically dropped his mower
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because it sounded like the case he was working on, Stephanie's case. So he reached out to us, we compared notes,
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and it turns out that the man that we had questions about in Kristen's case did have ties to the Midwest, possibly
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even Wisconsin, where Stephanie was killed. Now, we're not naming that suspect yet because he is still alive
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and this investigation is ongoing. But behind the scenes, connections are being made, and now we have Lieutenant Van
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Sock on our side, and together we are trying to see if we can get to the bottom of these cases. So stay tuned.