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[Music] crime [Music] okay as schools all over Ohio and across this great nation prepare to close down for
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the summer and Kids gear up for the much needed summer break it is this time of year every year that many remember and
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think about little asth Louise dukot friends and family called her she was a third grader at barington
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Elementary in the Columbus Ohio suburb of Upper Arlington the city of Upper Arlington and the people who live there
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are some of the best that Columbus has to offer this is an affluent area families
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stay here for generations to live in this tight-knit community to raise their children up in a safe peaceful area and
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thrive in nearby Columbus many Ohio State graduates stay or plant their Roots here in the city of Upper
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Arlington C school and home were located in what was thought to be a very safe sleepy upper class
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neighborhood but unfortunately there was something bad bubbling up there was something evil lurking In This Very
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neighborhood several girls reported to their parents that they didn't always feel safe walking in the neighborhood
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more than one girl said that she felt like she had been followed and not just on one
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occasion it was difficult to understand what was happening the neighborhood Hood
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as everyone thought was still the same old sleepy upper class neighborhood and maybe these were just the imagined fears
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of children however that something bad that was bubbling up to the surface boiled
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over on June 3rd 1980 just days before the end of the school year this is when little cinii was
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intercepted by that evil element somewhere along the very short walk from barington elementary school and her home
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which was just blocks away the distance was less than a mile a 20-minute walk this is a walk that Cy made many
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times and one that was even shorter for her as kids know all of the shortcuts and cut
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throughs but on that bright and sunny day something got her in the short window of Just 4 hours C was first
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missing and then she was gone forever according to the Ohio attorney general Dave Yos
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website on June 3rd 1980 at 4:34 p.m. the cenith dukot was reported missing by her parents after she did not arrive
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home from school the victim's parents indicated the cini walked home from school and would usually arrive home at
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400 p.m. after an extensive search C's body was discovered in a drainage ditch at
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the corner of Riverside Drive in walam Road Which is less than one block from her residence at about 7:30 p.m. the
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same evening the investigation revealed that her death was caused by blunt force
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trauma to the head and manual strangulation investigators believe that the victim was abducted and murdered at
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a location other than where she was found the town was devastated the neighborhood was terrified Upper
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Arlington lost one of their own a young outgoing intelligent little girl was attacked in an area where she likely
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felt the safest this was her neighborhood where she lived with her four older siblings
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and her mom and her dad she was literally just a 2minute walk from her home when she was cornered
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and grabbed snatched off of the street and killed just a short time later who would do
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such a Despicable and monstrous act how could this happen here and how could an entire community and mourning
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carry on without this bright little girl Upper Arlington did carry on but so many have not forgotten ceni and what
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happened to her it's been over 40 years and the still strong still proud community
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where se he lived still remember the talkative energetic little girl who did not make it home that one
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day that one day when a neighborhood was forever changed and permanently scarred that one day when evil came to
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town or did it you see there is a lot of evidence in C's case to suggest evil did
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not come to town that evil was already there always there lurking in the streets of this sleepy upper class
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neighborhood there's good reason to believe that cinii may have even known her killer or one of the persons
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responsible the killer or Killers may have known that there was only one way to keep this girl quiet after she was
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taken and assaulted but the community has refused to keep quiet about what happened what
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was taken from them what was stolen away from the city and the dukot family the members of this community are UA and
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they are UA strong as strong as a bear with a heart of gold the kids in this neighborhood never forgot CI some to
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this very day wish that they would have been walking with the little girl on June 3rd and if so maybe this would not
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have happened but unfortunately from where I stand and the way things look to me a tragedy like this was simply going
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to happen that bad element was on the rise and that evil was going to Bubble Up and boil over at some point and it
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did that day when CI was at the corner of Waltham and Malin so it's important to remember that se in her final minutes
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while she was scared and surrounded she was actually in some not so easily explained way protecting another little
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girl probably even one of her friends because this evil did not come to town it was
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always there right there in that sleepy upper class neighborhood before the end of the
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school year C's classmates and memory of wrote The Following acronym for and about CI but in her proper name the
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cenith this is from Mrs seber's third grade class at barington elementary school
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a cenith duot a friendly third grader she always had a sunny smile her eyes glimmered and sparkled like
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stars nice considerate honest polite and aware of other people's feelings the class has happy thoughts of
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her she will always be remembered in August of 1980 a Cena's father Alexander was interviewed by the
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UA news I believe this quote clearly showcases the strength the resolve and the compassion of the dukot family quote
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we have suffered a great loss but it's not a reoccurring one she's gone but the community may have to go through this
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again this case doesn't have to be solved for our benefit the Lord will deal with this fellow in his own way
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way we don't wish to killer any Vengeance sometimes we pray for his soul that he may be saved but we are
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concerned about the safety of others he may try to wreak this tragedy on someone else I can't picture a person
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who is capable of rape and murder living a normal life I am sure we will hear from him in
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one way or another Alexander dukot August 6th 1980 the ducats were and remain UA and UA
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strong this is true crime garage and this is the still unsolved murder case of a cenith cinii
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[Music] ducat this is a case that we have wanted to cover for a while now a couple years
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in fact and it's only been covered a little bit and here we are today Captain covering it for the very first time and
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there have been some speed bumps along the way that got in the way of us covering this at an earlier date and we
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will discuss those at a later time in these episodes but we are here today to talk about the unsolved murder of aith
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duot ath ducot was born July 24th 1971 and on our day in question she was 8 years old she went by the nickname
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ceni and later that day when her parents would report her missing she was listed
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as 4 5 1/2 in tall weighing about 68 lb she had brown hair and brown eyes and she was in the third grade at barington
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elementary school which was located on barington Road in Upper Arlington which is a suburb of Columbus Ohio our day in
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question is June 3rd 1980 this is a tues and this would be a bright and sunny Tuesday on this day asith left school at
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310 p.m. this is 10 minutes later than her usual dismissal time CI and her classmates had to serve a 10-minute
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detention for Rowdy Behavior disrupting the class this delay caused her to miss the crowd that she would have regularly
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walked home with so typically she's walking home less than a mile this walk would take her less than 20 minutes to
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make it from the door of her school to the front door of the dukot family home and on this day she's going to be
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walking alone because those other friends from other classrooms have left and already made the Trek from the
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school to their homes there were several eyewitnesses that saw her walking home that day it's believed that she
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disappeared sometime between 3:20 and 4 p.m. on that day now what we do have here Captain is that we have a situation
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where Mom gets worried because C usually arrives home every day at the same time
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and when her daughter her youngest child is not there seeny she starts to get a little nervous and this is going to be
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followed by sending out the other kids of the duot family to go out on their bicycles and walk the streets and ride
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ride their bikes to look for their little sister it's also going to be followed with Mrs dukot calling the
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school to ask where her daughter was and calling a couple of her friends parents
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I imagine this would be friends that she would typically walk home with and she's
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going to find out about this 10-minute detention and realize very quickly that c was probably traveling by herself
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walking home alone that day from school again this 10-minute attention didn't come about until the day of on June 3rd
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1980 she's also going to call her husband Alex or Alexander and let him know that their daughter did not come
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home from school yet Alex Works within walking distance of the family's home he will actually end up leaving work a few
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minutes early on this day to help go look for little C so I'm not that clear on the details but it was either the
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whole class that got a detention or a group of kids because they were talking too much in class but kind of odd that
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they would be handed out a 10-minute detention for that day normally you'd have to serve your detention on another
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day yeah I'm guessing a couple things here Captain one it makes sense to me it's the end of the school year kids get
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a little Rowdy they probably weren't listening to the teacher teacher gets upset and has to continually warn the
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kids and then decides you know what I've got to make a example here and let them
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know that they can't just do whatever they want so here's a 10-minute detention probably served by the whole
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class we got to keep it short though I'm guessing because some of those kids are
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going to be riding buses home some of these kids as we said like Ci will be walking home now I've heard it reported
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that like 1980 was something different than the setup that we have today that many more kids walked home back then if
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you looked up where the duats lived and this this barington Elementary School it's less than a nth of a mile I believe
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it's typical for kids that live in the same neighborhood as the school to commonly walk to school so I don't
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believe that it's any different 1980 than it would be today of the amount of kids that were walking to and from
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school when I was growing up Captain when you were growing up if our school was in the same neighborhood you just
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walked because the buses didn't travel that short distance or Mom and Dad would drop you off at the school well Colonel
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can you give us a general overview of this case and then we can come back through and do a very detailed account
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of the events yes so as we said CI was walking home from school it's believed that she was last seen within just
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blocks of her home that day her body was eventually found at approximately 7:30 p.m. so let's note those times here
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before we get to that very detailed timeline of June 3rd we have people that say that they have seen CI around 3:20
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p.m. maybe even a few minutes after that so we believe that she obviously went missing during some point after that 320
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325 marker on that day her body is found at approximately 7:30 p.m. that day so what we're really working with here
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roughly is a window of about 4 hours where we have a lot of question marks and a lot of blanks to fill in and I
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think we will be able to do that with some of this timeline that we will later present but her body was found this is
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after an extensive search remember we've already said brothers and sisters are out looking for ceni we have
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neighborhood kids looking for her mom and dad are out looking for her mom's driving around the neighborhood looking
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for her this is followed by an official search that is going to start after after the missing person's report is
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filed with the Upper Arlington Police Department at 4:34 p.m. on that same day so we got a lot of people in a small
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area looking for this little girl and yet we have 4 hours where we have to fill in and figure out what was going on
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during that time frame her body was found at the mouth of a culvert located at the corner of Riverside Drive in
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walam road so to give a very basic description of this area what we have here Captain is Riverside Drive is a
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very busy road it was back in 1980 it still is to this day in fact if you look up the population for Upper Arlington
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the population is roughly the same today as what it was back in 1980 it's only about 1,500 people more so traffic and
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things like that are not significantly different however the lay of the land is significantly different especially right
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here on this corner this area has been landscaped and renovated several times since 1980 now think of your
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neighborhood growing up everybody out there in listener land and you know the busy road that is just outside of your
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neighborhood that Mom and Dad say hey wherever you go you can go ride your bikes you can go play with your friends
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but you do not go near that road you do not go across that road well this would be that Road Riverside Drive very busy
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Road Waltham Road is right off of Riverside and it's one of the main vessels through this neighborhood
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through C's neighborhood her body is eventually found near this intersection of Waltham and Riverside Drive the
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interesting thing about that to me Captain is this is very close to her home it's less than two-minute walk from
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her front door to where her body was ultimately found yeah my parents would always say don't play by that busy
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intersection but stop hanging out with that kid that thinks he's a colonel too young to be a colonel so unfortunately
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her body is found 4 hours later and this is about a block from her home and I encourage everyone to look this up on a
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map because it will shock you how close she was found to her home and it was determined that she was sexually
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assaulted and her death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head and manual strangulation the murder weapon
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I've actually seen several different weights for this murder weapon over the years I've SE she
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was killed with a rock someone took a rock and hit her in the head with it and I've seen this rock to have weigh as
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little as 12 lbs or as many as 25 pounds most of the information that I've reviewed over the years suggests
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that this is a 20 to 25lb rock so this is a pretty big rock now the area that she's found there's a lot of rocks there
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and this rock was recovered it was still at the murder scene and that's something
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that's key to remember here too murder scene she was killed where she was found so what you're saying is law enforcement
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believes a perpetrator or multiple perpetrators took her assaulted her somewhere transport her alive to this
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location and then the murder took place at that location where she was found yes
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that is correct and here's the thing though I think that we're going to be able to lay this out in a very easy to
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understand way easy to grasp everything that we have seen over the years in her case I don't think that things were so
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clear for law enforcement at the time when they were investigating this case we have the benefit of 42 years of
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looking at this case and looking at the different information that have come up in 42 years they did not one thing that
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police revealed was that there had been a previous and a very similar attack in that similar area on May 7th so less
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than a month earlier a similar type of victim and a very similar type abduction took place in that same neighborhood now
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this would be news to some of the people in the neighborhood but not to everyone
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in that neighborhood were there any eyewitnesses to this previous situation before the murder yes there were so we
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have the Survivor of the attack and then we also have a potential eyewitness in that situation the thing here Captain is
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eyewitnesses are key in this case eyewitnesses for the day that CI was killed and eyewitnesses on this other
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attack that may or may not be related however what we do know is at the time of C's murder that police absolutely did
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think that it was highly likely that the two were in fact connected so much so that they are releasing a sketch a
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composite sketch to the public of the individual that they believe may have been spotted in C's attack or at least
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in the area of where CI was last seen and this is believed to be a similar sketch a similar composite
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sketch to the earlier attack that took place in May again just less than 1 month earlier
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Big Time detective Ed Ty was one of the lead investigators in Cena's murder case
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he put together some really invaluable information on this case that I think still holds a lot of weight to this day
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and this is how we can get a clearer picture of those 4 hours that went by from the time that she was last seen to
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the time that her body was discovered at the mouth of that Culver this is a timeline put together by detective Ed
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time and it starts roughly at 300 p.m. and it's going to take us all the way up until about 7:30 p.m. that night now a
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lot of these names have been redacted and then on top of that these times are not exact most of them
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are going to be approximate so I think it was key to give an overview of the general information of the case and what
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is known of that day first before we start getting into the specifics because this could get a little confusing
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without having that information prior at the start of detective times timeline we
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have 3:10 p.m. and it's stated here that the victim asena ducot and the rest of her third grade class was dismissed
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after they had been held over for 10 minutes for a class detention normal dismissal time was 300 p.m. as we've
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already discussed at 3:10 p.m. we have a lady that is driving home she returns to
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her home on walam road walam road is not only part of the intersection where her
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body was found near but this will be part of her route home back to her house now this lady says that at about 3:10
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p.m. she pulls into her driveway on walam road and she observed an unknown male white wearing blue jeans a white
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shirt and possible blue jean jacket walking out of the field and this is a field that is
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located directly across from the intersection of Waltham and Hillside this location is 8 city blocks west of
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the barington elementary school so very near C school at approximately 3:15 to 3:20
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p.m. a classmate of C sees her walking observes her walking westbound on Waltham Road Crossing Arlington Avenue
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now at 3:15 p.m. this is just 5 minutes after the lady that lived on walam returned home she goes outside to do
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some lawn work and notices that the man that she saw earlier is no longer there she does not see him at this time we
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also have a second classmate of CIS see her walking West on wam at Coventry and barington around the same time it's
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important to remember that any individual that's seen at this time in this area could be a suspect we have a
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driver that reports at approximately 3:20 p.m. I think this time is probably a little early in the timeline but again
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we're going off of this eyewitness off of their report that says at approximately 3:20 p.m. while driving
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westbound on walam road and at malver Road he observed a male white with dark glasses carrying a limm girl into the
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yard of and then the name is redacted off of Melbourne Road he also saw a red bicycle lying along the curb in the
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south side of Waltham and malver road so this is interesting because later of course we know that CI is abducted and
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killed in this area this motorist at this time does not believe what he is witnessing to be anything of importance
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until of course later that day at 7:30 when we find out the worst thing that a neighborhood could experience experience
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he's saying simply that he saw the bike he saw a girl being Carried Away by a guy he made the assumption that she had
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wrecked her bike was injured and this was either her brother or father tending to her and carrying her away so what he
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believes that he sees is something very innocent something very normal however he's going to find
00:32:02
out hours later that something not innocent and not normal at all happened in this general area maybe at this same
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time and we're going to have a lot more eyewitnesses to this male on a bicycle yeah at approximately 3:20 p.m. we have
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another witness who says that they observed a male white with dark hair approximately 18 to 21 years age riding
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Westbound at gulford and Fairfax on a bicycle he was wearing a white shirt and dark trousers this seems to match up
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with the previous descriptions we have by other eyewitnesses again we see the bicycle and we see a similar outfit
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along with a similar age description for this unknown male at 3:25 we have a similar report of another individual
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that lives on tree road that says that they observed a male in his 20s 6ot tallish average build with brown hair
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white short sleeve shirt dark pants running South and carrying a small child the witness goes on to say that
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she also saw a red bicycle on the south side of Waltham in the bushes by the pine trees now can you imagine if you
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saw a teenager or somebody in their early 20s carrying a child this is not going to look natural this is not going
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to look like they're playing around at the same time though you got to keep in mind around this 3:00 hour we have two
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schools in this neighborhood so you're going to see a lot of kids kind of out walking around or on bikes at this time
00:33:46
right the other thing too that we need to point out because that description that I gave is just a little tricky
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there the witness lives on tont she's not saying that she saw or witnessed this on Tremont Road she's saying that
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she witnessed this near walam road on the in the bicycle was on the south side of walam road so this individual lives
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nearby but was driving in this general area where they witnessed this man or young man carrying a small child we also
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need to point out that this Tuesday in 1980 was a primary election day and we have two locations in this neighborhood
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that are voting locations so we have additional people that are out and about on this day for the purpose of voting
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and we get our first witness eyewitness who says that on their way to voting saw
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something that might be of interest to our case so this is a woman who lives on Riverside Drive says that she walked to
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vote at First Community Village First Community Village Village is very near where cini dukat's body was later found
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she says that she crossed the covert on her way and observed a male white standing on the south side of the creek
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at approximately 100 yard east of her she said that there was something red and blue cloth likee on the ground in
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front of him this occurred between 3:25 p.m. and 4:20 p.m. now another thing to note there as well I know that she's
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giving us a window of time that is approximately an hour but this individual is crossing the same Culvert
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where CI dukat's body will later be found I've walked and crossed this Culver several times I would find it
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incredibly difficult to believe that anybody whether they were looking around or not would not have seen her lying
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there on that day at that time so what this tells me is even though we don't know exactly what time this woman is
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walking and crossing the cul she says between 3:25 p.m. and 4:20 p.m. whatever time
00:36:05
she cross that cul CI is not there she's not there at this time and that's going
00:36:11
to be key to our case now at approximately 340 to 350 p.m. we have another woman who returns to the Culver
00:36:19
after voting and decides to pick up a rock from the creek that she's going to take home and use as a paper weight The
00:36:26
Rock came from the location where the body is later discovered again this person gives us a different window 340
00:36:34
to 350 p.m. so now we can say based off of these two eyewitness statements that even if we go to the earliest parts of
00:36:43
their timeline of their window that they provide for us that at 3:25 to 3:40 p.m.
00:36:49
CI is not located she's not in that Culver at that time so our window for those 4 hours is start starting to
00:36:57
shrink a little bit now if we were to take that out to the end of their Windows we're up to 4:20 p.m. I mean
00:37:03
doesn't seem a little insane the day that they find this missing murdered girl where there's a bunch of rocks at
00:37:12
that somebody stopped to pick up a rock to use it for a paper weight it seems very bizarre to me number one but number
00:37:19
two I think that it it's one of those things that come up in in question you know when when police interview you
00:37:27
and you're telling them about your day they want to know why you did everything why why the hell would you stop to pick
00:37:32
up a rock or why did you notice that she wasn't there what what proof do you have
00:37:38
for that why were you looking around why weren't you just minding your own business well I decided to stop and pick
00:37:42
up a rock for a paper weight sounds weird to me however I don't have this person's name as it's been redacted so I
00:37:50
don't know if I should be questioning her statement if she's just a regular Mrs citizen that I don't
00:37:58
question her statement and I believe it to be true and I'm really just trying to
00:38:03
figure out when ceni was placed in that Culver because that's a fact that we know for certain that happened and we
00:38:10
have the statement of police saying that she was killed there so we're trying to
00:38:16
shrink this window of time this four hours to a much smaller amount of time because we have all these different
00:38:21
people that are seen in the area walking about at this time one of those people that were seen is responsible for this
00:38:29
if not more than one that was seen and so we want to really narrow down who it could be that placed CI in that CT that
00:38:40
day well here's something that's also pretty strange in this case Mr ducat like you were stating earlier he works
00:38:47
close enough to the family's home that he could walk home while he is going across that that covert where she is
00:38:53
found so if she was there at the time it's most likely that Mr ducat would have seen his daughter yeah and we're
00:39:00
going to be able to put a lot of people in this area where her body would eventually be found that do not see her
00:39:07
there they do not see her body lying in that Culver and that really shrinks the window here so again he would have had
00:39:15
to walk across this little bridge to get over this Culvert and I'm telling you there's no way unless you got blinders
00:39:22
on man on both sides of your head there's no way that you're not seeing her lying there on the rocks at 4:40
00:39:30
p.m. is when Mr dukot left work and he walked home his normal route would make him cross that Culver right I
00:39:40
don't have an exact time for when he was crossing that bridge that day but we know it was after 4:40 p.m. so our
00:39:47
window is getting even smaller this is going to take us all the way up to 555 to approximately 6 6:00
00:39:57
p.m. when we have a woman who lives on Waltham Road she walk across the Culver on her way to
00:40:04
vote again does not see C in the Culver we're now up to 6:00 her body's going to
00:40:11
be found before 7:30 p.m. I think one of the things that makes cases more difficult like in the 80s is that not
00:40:21
everybody has a clock on them where now almost everybody carries a cell phone your cell phone has some some kind of
00:40:31
clock on it and also you have then time frames of well I saw this happen and then this person text me so I know it
00:40:42
was before that time where in the 80s if you're not carrying a pocket watch or a
00:40:49
wrist watch you probably have no reference of time so some of these people's time frames could be off by you
00:40:57
know 10 to 15 minutes give or take the other thing that we didn't have or wasn't so readily available back then
00:41:05
that we have today is this first Community Village where people are going to and from for voting purposes they
00:41:12
would have had today they got a bunch of cameras set up so they'd be able to go okay Mrs so and so says that she crossed
00:41:18
the cul to come here and vote and we have her walking through our doors at this time and Mr so and so says that he
00:41:25
left and then had to cross the Culvert to get back to his house well we have him leaving our doors at this time and
00:41:32
so we would be able to get more exact times these times to me are still incredibly important and it's important
00:41:39
to shrink this window we have another eyewitness this is two people actually that say between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. we
00:41:49
have a woman with her son her son is Young we know this because he's on a tricycle if he's if he's not young that
00:41:56
would be weird hey sounds awesome sauce to me but the two of them cross the Culver between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. this
00:42:05
again the same location where the body was later found now at 7:26 p.m. officer Mike warley along with two other
00:42:16
individuals Remember by this point in the evening we have neighbors friends neighborhood kids out looking
00:42:24
for C plus we have the police actively looking for C at this time so at 7:26 p.m. we have a police officer along with
00:42:34
two adults from the neighborhood the three of them together sadly discover the body of a Cena dukot
00:42:42
lying at the base of an open Culvert in a stream located on the north side of First Community Village and this is
00:42:50
directly from the police report the victim is lying in approximately 4 in of running water with a large Rock Rock
00:42:56
covering her head her head had been crushed by the large Limestone rock that had been taken from the creek bed she
00:43:03
was fully clothed although there were indications that her pants had been down at one time and then pulled back up it
00:43:11
was observed that the pants were unbuttoned and there was grass in her undergarments well such a sad scene and
00:43:18
we we see so many cases like Deli or west Memphis 3 where the the whole Community is searching for a missing
00:43:26
child or missing children and then they don't discover the bodies until the next
00:43:32
day this one within a couple hours they're discovering her body it's almost like these killers or killer is almost
00:43:40
not worried about even trying to conceal the body whatsoever correct and actually
00:43:46
what I think has happened here Captain is we run into a situation where things started going badly for the killer or
00:43:53
killers and now they're just making impulsive decisions based off of getting the hell out of the area as quickly as
00:44:01
they can again it's awfully confusing and such risky Behavior to see such a horrible act and such a a crime take
00:44:11
place in an area that we can clearly see there's a lot of movement there's a lot
00:44:16
of people out and about for the purpose of voting this around the evening hours but again go back to the 3:00 hour we
00:44:24
have two schools in this neighborhood that are letting out in that 3:00 hour so there's a lot of kids out and about
00:44:33
during the time that she was abducted unless one were to think that she was just hanging out and doing God knows
00:44:40
what for 3 hours before something terrible happened to her and I don't think anybody believes that at all I
00:44:45
certainly don't believe it I think she was snatched on her way home from school and then obviously based off of the
00:44:51
timeline we just went through she had to be gone for several hours before someone
00:44:58
placed her in that Culvert because we have all these people that say they walked across that cul and did not see a
00:45:05
Cena duot at any time well what's so sad too is that she would be more likely to
00:45:12
talk to a kid you know somebody in their late teens even early 20s when you're that age 8 years old you're you're
00:45:20
viewing a even a 20-year-old as one of you you know like oh that's just an older kid you don't necessarily with
00:45:29
kids and teenagers view them as dangerous and so they were able to lure her in and then then this assault takes
00:45:37
place and now they go well there's a good chance that she knew her attacker or attackers because it seems like
00:45:47
they're they thought the only the only way out of this is that we have to kill her so she can't identify us well and
00:45:54
the thing here is that goes back everything that you're saying goes back to all of these eyewitness accounts
00:46:00
right the other people in the area at the time that are spotted by the citizens saying hey yeah I we have one
00:46:08
person saying I saw the victim walking home at this time in this location and we have other eyewitnesses saying I saw
00:46:15
a young male probably 20 years old of average build approximately 6' tall he's in the area at the same time we have two
00:46:26
people that say they believe they saw a similar looking man carrying a small child or a little girl across the street
00:46:35
around the same time that asith would have been abducted on her way home now I want to take this opportunity to clear
00:46:43
up a couple things here because I've seen it reported plenty of times this way that there were some
00:46:50
unusual deviations in C's route that she took home that that day I have discussed this
00:46:58
with several people and confirmed this with people that knew ceni and it was explained to me as such that CI had a
00:47:07
preferred route that she would take from her school to her home and there was a group of kids that she would typically
00:47:15
walk with while some of the other kids in the group had a different route that they preferred and when the kids when
00:47:23
the entire group was there they would take this other route it's a more straightforward route less turns less
00:47:29
twist C's route might be a little quicker but for whatever reason it's been noted by several of her friends
00:47:37
that this was the route that she preferred now we do know that she was walking alone that
00:47:43
day and so she would have taken her preferred route now we go back to the idea of unusual deviations well why
00:47:51
would they believe that there were unusual deviations well we know the route that she ultimately took on the
00:47:57
day that she was abducted and killed because we have several things one we have the eyewitness statements of what
00:48:03
time and where she was and where she was walking at those times as well as they brought in a scent dog to track her
00:48:11
movements from the school and her route home that she took so I believe that the earlier portions
00:48:20
of her route that have those deviations are simply based off of a route that she
00:48:24
preferred and that was the route that she chose to take that day now the other deviations that are the later part of
00:48:33
her route those aren't deviations that she was making by choice in my opinion captain that is when she started to get
00:48:42
nervous she was being followed she did not like somebody that she's seeing in the area she felt uneasy and maybe she
00:48:50
diverted from her route to get away or to avoid someone or the scarier thought at some point she's being chased by this
00:49:00
individual well let's dive into some of the details of this murder scene yes because the layout of where cini is
00:49:08
ultimately found is very important to this case and figuring out who is responsible so her body is actually
00:49:17
found near a near the mouth of a culvert this Culvert runs under a service road and mind you if you look at pictures
00:49:26
from 1980 compared to 2022 the layout of this land has changed a little bit over
00:49:33
the years it's been filled out a little more but the other place that is curious
00:49:40
that is nearby this CT where her body is found is a tunnel which the locals or at
00:49:48
least the children of the neighborhood called Frankenstein's cave now we mentioned earlier that your parent
00:49:55
parents if you lived in this neighborhood would tell you do not go to Riverside Drive you do not cross
00:50:02
Riverside Drive walking or on your bike the road is just far too busy it's too dangerous for people crossing on foot or
00:50:10
on a bike but this Frankenstein's cave is a larger tunnel that runs underneath that Riverside Drive now this would be
00:50:19
another location that your parents would likely tell you that you are not allowed
00:50:24
to go to the other thing too as a child you may not want to go there anyway because it's called Frankenstein's cave
00:50:31
if there were anybody to be hanging out there this would be the older kids the teenagers the uh maybe people were down
00:50:38
there drinking beer smoking a joint and somebody had spray painted Frankenstein's cave inside the tunnel on
00:50:46
one of the walls the tunnel wall so this is how it kind of got its name other than that it's a little tricky to figure
00:50:53
out where the name came from But ultimately C's body is recovered at the mouth of this Culvert which is
00:51:01
underneath the service road runs underneath the service road that is near Frankenstein's cave that runs underneath
00:51:09
Riverside Drive again we had multiple witnesses that are traveling that are traversing this area this exact area for
00:51:20
that 4-Hour time period of when she was gone so you have to believe based off of
00:51:25
those Witnesses not seeing her there where she's later found that she wasn't there until much later in the evening
00:51:33
closer to the time that she was discovered again the time that we have on record for the police is 7:26 p.m.
00:51:42
there was also a brief description in The Columbus Dispatch about her autopsy yes according to the June 10th 1980
00:51:54
Columbus Dispatch patch skull brain injury killed dukot girl autopsy shows is the headline a brief description of
00:52:03
that article is as follows in a Columbus Dispatch newspaper article published on
00:52:09
the 10th a preliminary autopsy reported that 8-year-old asena ducot died of skull fractures and brain contusions
00:52:17
inflicted when she was struck on the head with a 20 lb Shale type Rock the autopsy also showed that the third
00:52:24
grader had been raped handprints were left on both sides of her throat as her attacker choked her bruises were found
00:52:32
beneath both eyes and on the left side of the nose Upper Arlington police were to distribute pamphlets describing the
00:52:40
murder suspect to motorist on Waltham Road near where the body was found they HED to find another witness in addition
00:52:48
to the woman who is thought to have seen the killer carrying the youngster into the retirement complex grounds police
00:52:55
also believe that dukat's killer was the same person involved in the attack of another school girl on May 7th police
00:53:04
describe the man as white between the ages of 16 and 20 years old with a Mediterranean look the killer was riding
00:53:12
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