June 10, 2025
Chapter 107: The Good Die Young-The Murder of Mia Zapata
Among the legendary singers of the 27 Club who captivated the world with their music and lyrics, is a woman who is not as well known—one whose powerful voice and thought-provoking lyrics set her apart from the men dominating the industry. Mia Zapata and her band, The Gits, were on the verge of becoming a household name in Seattle's grunge and punk rock scene when everything was ripped away one night in July of 1993. Mia Zapata's violent murder shocked Seattle as a whole. Who would want to kill a woman, with no enemies, who was so dynamic, vibrant, and creative, and how did they get away with murder for a decade?
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The story I have for you today is that of
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a number of the twenty seven Club. Many of you
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musicians as well as actors and other creatives, who have
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fated to die by this age, whether because they were
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special or remarkable in some way, or because their deaths
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at twenty seven meant that they had accomplished some predetermined
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destiny and their purposes had been fulfilled. While many of
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these musicians died by their own hands in freak accidents
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deaths were more sinister. The case I have for you
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is of one such death. Among the musical royalty of
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the twenty seven Club, comprised of legends such as Jimmy Hendrix,
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Kirk Copein, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse. Is a woman
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who is making waves in Seattle's punk, rock and grunge
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scene with hurrah and heartbreaking lyrics and a voice that
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some say rival to the greats whose life was cut
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short in the most brutal of ways. This is the
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murder of Miya Zapata. Mia Catherine Zappato was born in Chicago, Illinois,
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on August twenty fifth, nineteen sixty five, to Richard and
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Donna Zapata. She was the youngest of three children. She
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had an older sister named Catherine and a brother Eric.
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and her father was a music executive. She grew up
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in an upper middle class area of Louisville, Kentucky, called
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Douglas Hills. According to an article for the Seattle Times,
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while Mia grew up enjoying the comforts that her family's
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money provided her, such as good schools, regular vacations, and
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regular trips to New York. After her parents' divorce, her
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father spoke of how Mia traversed two different worlds. Quote
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she lived on two different sides of the street, the
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straight side one parochial schools, affluent family, and tennis clubs,
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but when she crossed the street, material things didn't mean
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anything to her. Mia grew up wildly creative and very
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assured of who she was as a person. By nine,
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she had learned how to play both the guitar and
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the piano, and she had a love of poetry and
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would journal regularly about all of her thoughts and ideas.
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indulged by her siblings, who would accompany her songs with
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air guitar, and her sister would set the mood with flashlights.
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Mia was also a talented artist, creating emotionally moving works
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that expressed how wild and complex her mind and heart were.
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Mia showed signs of having dyslexia, and she struggled with
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reading and writing, instead finding comfort in the arts. She
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would go off on her own at summer camp to
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work on her writing or sketching, and as she got
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older and started looking at colleges, she found a home
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at Antioch College when a professor, after she had confessed
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her struggles with dyslexia, told her, quote not to worry.
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Mia attended the Liberal Arts College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Aniok College, according to their website, quote, prepares students to
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live lives of intention, the agency to design their education,
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to own that education, to govern their college, to collaborate
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with their faculty, and extend their classroom learning into the
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real world. So it was a perfect place of learning
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from Mia, who was all about expressing her creativity and
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pushing the boundaries of her friends, who she knew were
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capable of doing more. Her friend Matt Dresdner told the
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inspired and intimidated by Mia. While he was nervous to
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talk to her, she took the initiative and approached him,
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calling him out about his quote lack of initiative as
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a painter. He said, quote she called me out for
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half asking it, and from there she's like, tomorrow, you're
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coming down to the art building with me, and you're
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going to pain she challenged me. From that moment on,
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they were friends, and Dresner was vocal about being in
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awe of MEA's creative spirit. Then he heard her sing
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an open mic night, and he was blown away. He said, quote,
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I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was just
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so transfixed by her, her voice and her presence. It
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brought me to tears. She was so resonant and personal,
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and at that point I was like, God, we got
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to figure out how to start a band, and in
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nineteen eighty six they did. Originally called in homage to
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Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Sniveling Little Rat Faced Gits,
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before shortening their name to just the Gets. The band
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was comprised of Mia as lead singer, Matt as the bassist,
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Andy Kessler as the guitarist and Steve Moriarty as the
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drummer of Mia and Her Voice. Steve told The Rocket quote,
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Mia was an immensely talented vocalist. She could have sung jazz, blues, country,
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and western anything, but she chose punk rock because it
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fit her passionate temperament. And Mia was a passionate person.
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She was a proud feminist and not shy about speaking
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up about things she believed in. She was also something
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of an anomaly in a scene dominated by bands fronted
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by white men Nirvana, Pearl, jam Alison Chains and the like,
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because not only was me an unapologetically outspoken woman, but
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she was a proud Mexican American making waves in the industry.
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In the beginning, while things were new, the bands played
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a few shows on and off, but things changed when
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the group, lured by the cheaper cost of living and
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the fact that it was as far away from Ohio
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as they could get, moved to Seattle in nineteen eighty nine,
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accompanied by MIA's best friend Maria Mapra, and the band
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really grew together, finding their sound and their voice. Andy
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Kessler said, quote, The thing that's interesting is that the
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chemistry and power of it was there right away, and
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it did last from then until the end. We played
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together sporadically during those cos days, but it was when
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we moved to Seattle that I feel like we really
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became a band. The Gets released three EPs from nineteen
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ninety to nineteen ninety one, playing everywhere from dive bars
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to university districts, where MIA's raw vocals captivated the audience
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just as much as her presence on stage. Decked out
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in the uniform of the punkin grunge scene, Doc Martin's tattoos,
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ripped jeans and shirts, and hair matted and braided, dyed
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all sorts of colors, but usually blonde, and decorated with
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metal rings that once caused her hair to rust, to
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which her sister lovingly said Mia probably liked. While MIA's
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lyrics conveyed so many strong emotions like anger and rage,
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she was also incredibly sentimental and much of her personality
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was incredibly complex and not something she fully showed to everybody.
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Her sister, Kristen said, quote, there is a side of Mia,
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a quality about Mia that nobody could ever touch or know,
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Like the side of Mia that lovingly kept the bouquet
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she had held at Kristen's wedding, displaying the dried flowers
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in her bedroom as a reminder of that day. She
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was also very shy and would oftentimes take time for
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herself in the band's van after a show to write
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or just to think. That's not to say, though, that
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Mia didn't have her struggles. A friend of hers said, quote,
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at times she drank a lot inside. I think she
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was happy, but there was also a struggle of day
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to day life, her art, the band, and her painting,
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how to reach people, how to communicate In Seattle, the
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group worked at various bars and restaurants to make ends meet,
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and built a small but loyal fan base that grew
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with each show they played as the audience connected with
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the words that Mia had written. Andy Kessler told The
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Rocket quote, Mia was naturally gifted with words and people.
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she was the lyricist in punk rock. Of his daughter's writing,
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Richard said, quote, she absorbed emotion from the people who
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confided in her. Her gift was to draw the pain
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or joy that others were feeling and convert them into
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poems and songs. As their presence started to grow, the
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Gifts built a small network of fellow bands they would
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practice with at their home in Capitol Hill, transforming the
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basement into the Rat House, a pseudo clubhouse where all
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of their friends and fellow bandmates were welcome, some even
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having mail forwarded there when they didn't have a permanent address.
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Ens Mia was at the center of creating this sense
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of Camarderie among everyone. Valerie Agnew, the Drammer for seven
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Year Bitch, said, amya quote, she was like nobody I've
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ever met before. She was so sincere. She was a
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huge influence on me and everybody in my band. In
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nineteen ninety, according to k e XP, the Gifts landed
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a spot opening for Nirvana, who themselves were on the
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verge of catapulting into stardom, and it led to the
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booking of US and European tours, as well as the
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recording of their album Frenching the Bully. Fame was never
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the goal though, especially for Mia. In fact, according to
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her friends, her goal was to one day own a
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cabin in the woods with an old jeep and a
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sheep dog. However, it was hard to ignore the allure
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of success that came with their growing presence on the
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music scene. By the spring of nineteen ninety three, the
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Gifts as a whole were setting their sites ungrowing in
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the industry. They had hired a professional manager, moved out
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of the rat House, and some even quit their jobs
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to focus on the music. Mia even started taking boys
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lessons to fine tune her vocals and cut back on
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alcohol to preserve her voice during their summer tour. By
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June of nineteen ninety three, they were even in talks
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with Tim Summer of Atlantic Records to get signed and
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were excited for what the future would be for the band.
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But everything changed four weeks later. On July sixth, nineteen
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ninety three, the day before the Gets were to fly
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out to New York to start another tour, Mia was
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twenty seven years old and she met up with her father,
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who had driven up from Yakima, where he was living,
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to see her. They went to lunch at a Thai restaurant,
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strolled over to Tower Records, and took a trip to
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the Seattle Art Museum. Around three pm, she came back
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to the home she was now living in in Rainier Valley,
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did some laundry and walked the dog before heading over
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to Winston Apartments in Capitol Hill at six point thirty
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to rehearse with her boyfriend, Robert Jenkins's band, until about
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eight thirty, when she headed to the Comet Tavern. The
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Comet Tavern was a regular spot for the Gits and
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their friends to hang out. That night, according to various sources,
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Mia drank a lot, although no one is clear on
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what the reason was for her to fall off the
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wagon after not drinking for the last couple of weeks.
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According to The Seattle Times, some thought it was because
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she was angry with her boyfriend and wanted to break
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up with him or had already done so, and others
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said she was celebrating the start of tour. Some even
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thought she was drinking to more in the one year
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anniversary of the death of Stephanie's Sargent, a guitarist for
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the Seven Year Bitch. At around midnight, Mia headed back
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to the Winston Apartments from the Common Tavern to talk
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to her boyfriend, and by all accounts, she was agitated
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and really wanted to speak with him, but he wasn't
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in the studio, so she headed up to the second
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floor to see her friend's Tercy Victoria Kenley, who went
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by the nickname TV. According to the Seattle Times, TV
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said that Mia was upset and distracted, mumbling under her
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breath about something, and at one point Mia abruptly left
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TV's apartment, before returning a few minutes later with an apology.
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TV told Mia to stay at her apartment for the night,
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but Mia declined, saying and she was going to get
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a cab and go home, even though Mia was pretty
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vocal about not liking caps, she'd rather walk. Mia left
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TV's apartment at around two am, and he'd be kept
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watch as Mia headed down the stairs to the exit.
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The next hour and twenty minutes of MIA's night, though,
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are a bit of a mystery. There are a few
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different directions Miya could have headed that night. She could
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have walked a few blocks north to her friend Maria
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Mobbers home. She could have headed to a Texico station
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she was known to frequent two blocks west. Mia could
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have gone east towards the restaurant she worked at, or
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she could have gone south to her home. But wherever
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Mia was headed, she never made it, according to court records.
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At about three thirty am, the Seattle Fire Department was
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alerted by a sex worker that a woman was lying
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on the pavement in a dead end street at twenty
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fourth Avenue South between South Yesler and South Washington Street.
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When paramedics arrived, they found Mia Zapata lying on her back,
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her feet crossed at the ankles and her arms spread
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wide in a crucifixion post. The sweatshirt she had been
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