Chapter 96: Searching for Justice- The Murder of Kristina Hickey and The Abernathy Exoneration

0:00 Hi guys. I'm Courtney and I'm Lisa, and welcome to the next chapter in the Book of the Dead, brought to you by Dark Cast Network Indie Podcasts with a Twist. Hello, Hello, welcome to the next chapter of the Book of the Dead. Today, as part of a podcast on to bring traffic and awareness to different organizations, the case I have for you is dedicated to the Cold Case Coalition. The Cold Case Coalition's mission is to help with unsolved homicides and disappearances, either directly or by helping people make progress on their own with no profit motive. The one that I am specific dedicating the episode two is the one founded by an attorney named Kara Porter, a private investigator named Jason kay Jensen, who if you guys are familiar with my older episodes, remember that I've mentioned Jason in my coverage of Elizabeth Salgado's disappearance and murder, as well as a retired journalist named Tom Harvey. They do amazing work and a lot of states have their own Cold Case Coalition,

1:30 But the one that I'm specifically focusing on for this podcast that on is Utah's so with that I am going to be sharing with you a cold case from Chicago Onet that for a very long time appeared to be solved. This is the murder of Christina Hickey. According to the Chicago Tribune, Christina Hickey, who was fifteen years old, was in her home in Park Forest on a October third, nineteen eighty four, a suburb of Chicago, getting ready to perform in a choir concert. She put on a white and pink dress, matching earrings and high heeled shoes before putting on her coat. She grabbed her purse and said goodbye to her mother, Patricia, and walked out the door at around six thirty pm. Patricia had offered to drive Christina home from the concert that night, but as the school was only about a mile away, Christina said she would walk. She then headed to Ridge East High School, where she was a sophomore, to sing in the homecoming choir, after which she called her boyfriend to tell him she would be home in about fifteen minutes from the phone right outside the athletic director's office, and started the walk back home. Christina never made it home to her mother.

2:52 When Christina failed to return home, Patricia got in the car and drove to Richieast High school looking for her daughter. Went on to call the police at eleven thirty pm, when Christina was nowhere to be found and no one could tell Patricia where her daughter had gone. The next morning, she called the police again, informing them her daughter had still not been found, and called around to Christina's friends, who told Patricia that Christina was last seen at around nine point fifteen walking home. Patricia was at a loss of what to do. For Christina. Not to come home was just not like her, Patricia said, quote, it wasn't like her to be away from home overnight. Once a long time ago, she got mad at me and took off for a couple of hours, but she'd never taken off overnight. Everything was fine at home. We hadn't been fighting.

3:47 Her father lives in Florida, but she'd just seen him about a month ago. Everything was okay. When she was late, she would call me. She was a good kid. This year, she was as a soloist with the choir and had performed in the homecoming show on Tuesday night. I went to see her in the show that night. Less than forty eight hours after Christina was reported missing. On October fifth, two young boys were plying in the bushes on the west side of Park Forest Plaza on Western Avenue in Lakewood Boulevard when they stumbled upon the body of a teenage girl. The boys ran home and told their mothers what they had seen, but the mothers assumed they were just telling stories and they didn't believe them, According to an article for The Southtown Star. An hour later, when the boys kept telling their mothers what they had seen, one of the boy's mothers headed over to the plaza to see what her son was talking about, alerting the Marshall Field security, who then called the police. Dressed in the same clothes she had been wearing when she had left home two days prior, Christina Hickey's body was found lying in the dirt behind the bushes. She had been stabbed multiple times and her dress was torn, exposing her left side from shoulder to nable, and her braw had been cut and pushed away on that side towards her neck.

5:12 According to defrostingcolcases dot Com, Christina's arms were behind her back and her right arm had been tied with the belt of her coat. Police estimated that she had been killed sometime late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, According to the chief of Police, they determined she had been killed at the plaza. He said, quote, we found signs of a struggle marks in the dart from a heel during their examination of the scene. According to court records, officer Jeffrey Henderson said that they observed that the area where Christina was found was not visible from Marshallfield's entrance door due to the bushes and the way that the land was sloped. Nancy Cruz, the security guard, also told police that on the evening of October third, the building's exterior lights as well as the lights in the parking lot were not working, so the area was incredibly dark.

6:09 In fact, unless someone was standing on the edge of the parking lot by the bushes, no one would have seen anything going on. When the evidence technicians arrived on the scene, Alan Kulovitz proceeded to photograph the scene as well as Christina's body, observing a gaping wound in the center of her throat and another stab wound just above her left breast. He determined, based on the blood spatter surrounding her, as well as on her chest and on her clothing, that Christina had died where she had lain and that the terr in her dress had been folded back before she had been stabbed. Her stockings and underwear had been shoved down by her ankles, and her right foot was buried in the dirt where she had kicked repeatedly trying to get away from her attacker. The lividity on her back and legs also showed that this was where she had died. As I've explained in the past, lividity is the settling of the blood, and based on that lividity being present on her back and on the back of her legs showed that Christina had not been moved at all from where she had been found. Police immediately began searching the area surrounding the crime scene, looking for evidence to point them towards Christina's killer. Of the evidence they were looking for, they were focused on finding the knife that had been used to kill her. However, they were unable to find it. They searched the plaza and the neighboring thirty acre field that separated the high school from the plaza, as Christina had likely cut through

7:41 the field and plaza on her way home. On October sixth, Christina's autopsy was performed by doctor Yupulchoi. He observed extensive bruising on the external parts of her body that supported the theory that she had been sexually assaulted, but there was no evidence of sperm found. There was some bruising found internally, but he was not able to determine what caused it. There was also a bruising found on her right arm. Of the stab wounds, doctor Choy observed that the one on her neck was over six inches long and extended to both sides, deep enough to transact her trachea and esophagus. There were scrapes and bruises on her face and along her neck and left side of her shoulder, so doctor Troy theorized that Christina's attacker could have possibly knelts on her neck and shoulder to try and hold her down, or she had been struck with a heavy object.

8:37 There was also evidence that her head had been struck against the hard surface as well. Doctor Troy said that the stab wounds on her chest, one superficial, the other deeper, were most likely inflicted first. Her death was violent and horrific, and it's clear that Christina fought like hell to stay alive. Sometime after Christina's body was found. An employee for the Department of Public Works was mowing the grass near where Christina had been found when he came across her Social Security card and a wallet with some of her other cards in id Inside. Officer Francisia Goardy searched the area and found more items belonging to Christina, like her cosmetics, a shredded address book, and pieces from her corduroy bag that the mower had run over. On October ninth, nineteen eighty four, Christina was laid to rest and the funeral was held at the Lane Sullivan Funeral Home in Park Forest.

9:34 So many people showed up that they had to use auxiliary rooms for the overflow. It was standing room only. Two priests were used to conduct the service, and the service had to be delayed for fifteen minutes because so many people wanted to say their last goodbyes. Hundreds of people came to warn her, including a young man named Christopher Abernathy at Sas seventeen. He told a reporter named Carol Dorset, who had come to cover the funeral, that he had once dated Christina and had loved her. Carol noticed that he had scrapes on his face and lip, and Christopher explained that he had gotten hurt running into a tree. He then informed this reporter that he had an M sixteen rifle in his car and planned to open fire during the service, presumably as a farewell salute.

10:27 This threat was reported to the police, leading to Christopher being questioned. However, it appeared that the police did not find Christopher's threat credible, as he was ultimately released without any charges being filed. Police also failed to find any weapons when they searched his car, in addition to the evidence found at the original crime scene and the field. In terms of Christina's personal effects, police did find DNA evidence that they collected from various items as well as from Christina's bank body. However, they weren't able to test anything due to the restrictions and technology at the time, but they were hopeful it woul become and useful. Incidentally, weeks before Christina's murder, as a little side note fun fact if you will, Alec Jeffries, a British geneticist, had just successfully isolated DNA to obtain a person's unique genetic fingerprint in his efforts to trace genetic markers through families to find patterns of inherited disease causing mutations. According to an article and wired on September tenth, nineteen eighty four, he successfully isolated the strands, and his discovery over the next year would begin to be used in criminal investigations and forensic analysis. So police wered mere months away from being able to properly test this evidence forensically. Now, the investigation stalled with zero leads, and the months passed by

11:59 with Portraysha attempting to rebuild her life without Christina. Christina was Patricia's only child, and it was a struggle to live life without her. Patricia, who was a claim suggester, told the Southtown Star quote, I had a great amount of difficulty dealing with other people's problems. They did not seem quite as important as my own At the time. People call in to complain because they didn't get the check or her bill wasn't paid. I thought, lady, I just lost my daughter. I don't care whether your bill got paid or not. I couldn't handle it. In the beginning. It was hard for me to think of anybody but myself, and of course it was she had just lost the most important person in her life, her only child. I could totally sympathize and understand the fact that the only thing she was thinking about was herself and her daughter and how she was supposed to go on without her.

12:57 She also spoke about how she worries for the children in the neighborhood and the teenagers, especially the girls, because there was no place for them to go to safely hang out with each other, and they were still out walking around at night without an adult or any sort of safety or protection. She also really wanted to see something happen with the Plaza, the place where Christina had been killed. She said, quote the plaza has become so desolate that something like this could have happened. It wasn't necessarily abandoned, but it wasn't a bustling shopping center where there were plenty of people around to hear if something bad were happening. In fact, many of the stories there were closed. Ultimately, Patricia said that even if they found who was responsible for her daughter's murder, it would do little to ease the pain she felt. She said, quote, it's always going to be the same. She was murdered, she's dead, she's gone. That will never change. Whether they bring someone to justice or not finding and prosecuting the killer may only act to maybe a little relief to the question in my mind of knowing who it was.

14:05 Would I know him? Did they know me? Do they know my house? Do they know where I live? Do they know me? That's right? Do I see them every day? Wouldn't that be a kicker? One year after Christina's murder, Christopher Abernathy was arrested after his friend Alan Dennis informed the police that Christopher had confessed to killing Christina. Alan was being interrogated concerning a burglary that had occurred, and he told police what Christopher had said. He alleged that Christopher told him over the summer that he had murdered Christina. Christopher was brought in for questioning on November thirtieth, nineteen eighty five, and he was questioned for forty hours. According to court records, this is what Christopher said happened on the night Christina died in his written confession. Now to propose this, it was confirmed that Christopher had a learning disability and had dropped out of high school his sophomore year, and this learning disability is reflected in the way he wrote out his confession, he said quote. I asked my friend Tony to take me to Park Forest to see some friends. I went to Jules to get me something to eat. I got a twinkie and a can of pop.

15:24 Then I see Chris walk by herself. So I walked up to her and she was crying. At the time, I asked her what was worry. She said she got into a fight with her boyfriend, and I asked her why. She said it was not any of my business at all. So I said to her, if she wants me to walk her home, and she said yes, please. Then she started to get upset more. Then she hit me and I grabbed her arms. At the time, I had a knife with me. I had it in my hand at the time that I was holding her. She pulled away from me. I think that I could have hit her with my open hand. Then I grabbed her again. I still had the knife in my right hand in front of her. Then tried to pull her arms up in front of her. She put my hands by her neck.

16:12 Then I said something to her. I can't remember what I said to her. She turned her neck and then I accidentally cut her neck. I took my picture from her then I ran to Mickeyda's. Then I went to the park for a while. Then I went and called Tony to pick me up, and then I went home. Now, I do want to stress that nowhere in his signed confession did he say that he killed her, nor did he mention any sexual assault. A lot of what he said in this confession, frankly, doesn't make a lot of sense, and it's important to reiterate that Christopher had been questioned for forty hours at this point, and during that time he had repeatedly begged to speak to his mother, to which he was told no. Now, finally the police told Christopher that he would be allowed to go home if he wrote and signed a confession. Instead, Christopher was arrested and charged with first degree murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault, and armed robbery. He had also been given a polygrop test, which he submitted too willingly and he failed. Now, due to Christopher being two months shy of eighteen when Christina was killed, that meant he was ineligible for the death penalty according to Illinois law. According to The Southtown Star, Christopher's mother, Anne Kolis, was furious that her son was arrested and gave a statement at his bond hearing. She said, quote he was at Ingles Hospital when the murder happened.

17:38 The Park Force police picked him up last year and let him go, and now they are doing it all over again, allegedly, though Ingles Hospital had no record of Christopher being there at the time of Christina's murder. She also explained that the injuries on his face that were seen when he attended Christina's funeral were from him drinking at a gathering and running into a tree when he was leaving the party. She also claimed that Christopher was heartbroken when he read about Christina's murder in the paper and had cried about it, and she had driven him to the funeral herself. Now, Frank Grego, Christopher's attorney, filed a few different motions to have evidence suppressed. He had attempted to stop the grand jury indictment, citing that Detective Carl Custer's suspicions about Christopher being guilty and not actual evidence should have been reason enough for the indictment not to go forward, but that was rejected. He was also attempting to have the confession suppressed, as Christopher had made this confession after being held by police with Otto Warren for over thirty six hours and did not have his lawyer present. Additionally, he had asked for the bond hearing to be delayed because he still had not received any documentation or evidence from the police. Up until that point.

18:56 The only thing he had was this written confession, and that was it. He said he had given the police in the State's attorney three days to give him everything and they still hadn't done it. Although he did eventually receive all of the documentation necessary. Christopher went to trial in December of nineteen eighty six, and at Christopher's trial, Patricia was shown the blood stained pink dress Christina had been found in by Assistant State Attorney Patrick Quinn. Patricia burst into tears on the stand and confirmed that this evidence was the dress that Christina had put on to go to the concert on the day she was killed.

19:38 Christopher's public defender, Frank Rego, said in his opening statement that Christopher was known to say things that weren't true, suggesting that everything that he had been accused of telling Alan Dennis was fiction made up by Christopher. Also read at the trial was the oral statement that Christopher had allegedly made by Assistant State Attorney Paul Perry that said quote. Defendant said that he had known Christina for about a year before her death. On October third, nineteen eighty four, he saw Christina in the vicinity of the Park Forest Plaza. Christina was crying. Defendant asked her what was wrong. She said that she had had a fight with her boyfriend.

20:19 Defendant asked her the reason for the fight, and she replied that it was none of his business. Defendant then asked her if she wanted him to walk her home, and she said yes. As they were walking, defendant kept asking her about the fight. She became upset and hit him. He pushed her like to cheer her up. They started arguing. They were next to the Marshall Field Store when he might have hit her without realizing it. Then he probably accidentally knocked her down. He got on top of her, pursed her dress up, and pulled her panties down. He was trying to have sex with her. He had a butterfly knife with a three or four inch blade in his hand. He had her pinned. He didn't realize the knife was in his hand at the time. Then she was struggling then he might have without realizing, stabbed her once or twice in the chest. She threw him off and he got back on her. He pinned her arms to her chest. Then she tried to pull her hands away, and instead of pulling, she pushed them up. Then she turned her head suddenly and he might have cut her neck on accident. He grabbed her purse and her slip, took his picture out of the purse, and threw the purse and the slip away. Two days later, he was treated at South Suburban Hospital for injuries to his face, chests, ribs, and arm that he suffered when he ran into a tree.

21:44 Now I have to say that this oral statement is a bit confusing because that's not what was signed when Christopher was at the police station. It seems like they were filling in some blanks of their own volition, because that's not again, what he signed. That's not what he wrote. Dot I read that to you. They don't exactly match. They definitely added a little bit more detail. Now it's very possible that what he said in his oral statement was obviously written down by someone else, and maybe what he wrote down didn't exactly match because he couldn't exactly remember what he had said. It's possible, but it's interesting that they don't match. It's also important to note that during the trial, no physical or DNA evidence was ever presented to the jury. The entire basis of the state's argument was the confession and polygraph test. Now, the defense brought in witnesses to testify on Christopher's behalf. A friend, Lisa Roebel, testified that she met up with Christopher on October third, and they had gone to her grandmother's house in mid Lothian, where they had cut the lawn and had dinner. She said he left at around eleven thirty pm, and during her cross examination she said that they had also gone to another friend's house at ninth thirty pm.

23:00 She also said that she had spoken with Detective Coustra twice but had not mentioned being with Christopher on October third. In December of nineteen eighty five, she testified that she had gone with Detective Coustra to Marshall Fields and was able to point out where Christina had been found because Christopher had shown Lisa where her body had been. After Christina's wake, Detective Couster testified that Lisa told him she didn't see Christopher on October third. Lisa's mother, Virginia, also testified that Christopher and Lisa had dated from July to December of nineteen eighty four, and that they left from Lisa's grandmother's home between six thirteen seven, getting back to her home at around ten before sitting on the porch until Christopher left at eleven thirty. Alan Dennis also got on the stand and testified that in the summer of nineteen eighty five, Christopher told him he was responsible for Christina's murder, after Allan had asked him if he was involved.

23:57 He also confessed that they had met in nineteen eighty and that at some point he had beaten Christopher very badly, which could explain his broken ribs or bruise ribs and scrapes and bruises that he was treated with at the hospital. In their closing argument, the prosecution alleged that the motive behind Christina's murder was Christopher's sexual advances being denied. The prosecution also said that the details mentioned in his confession could only be known by the killer. Frank Rago argued that Christopher was quote looking for attention and now he realizes he is in trouble and this has gone too far. He also alleged that the confession was made under duress and that it was a made up story and didn't make any sense besides the fact that many of the details mentioned in his confession were in newspapers cover and Christina's murder, which I can confirm is fact because most of my research is based on newspapers from nineteen eighty four. Additionally, there were fingerprints found on a notebook the crime scene that had not been tested, and they were at the very minimum. Even if say technology had an advanced enough by that point to forensically analyze DNA, they could visually analyze fingerprints. That was something that was able to be done.

25:16 The jury deliberated for four and a half hours after the week long trial, and came back with a verdict of guilty on all counts on January fifteenth, nineteen eighty seven. Of course, Christopher's mother was devastated, and she pleaded with prosecutor Thomas Consel that he had gotten the wrong man. The Southtown Star reported that Thomas told Anne Collis quote, He'll die in prison, said with a grin. Anne attacked Conseil and broke his glasses before being led away from the area, and the Robles were very upset as well, insisting that what they had said was true and that Christopher was not in Park Forest at the time of Christina's murder. At the sense of Securing, according to the Chicago Tribune, the prosecution read it a statement from Patricia Hickey that said, quote, there is no sentence that will bring my daughter back, But the thought of Abernathy ever being let out of jail to mingle with society and perhaps commit a vicious and brutal attack on anyone else would be more than I could stand emotionally. He has his life, which is more than my daughter will ever have again. I hope and I pray that the courts put him away for the rest of his life, so he can never again enjoy the freedom enjoy of living that he's so carelessly destroyed for my fifteen year old daughter.

26:40 Christopher was ultimately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murder, as well as thirty years each for the other charges. Of course, Christopher and his lawyer appeal the conviction, citing a myriad of issues with the trial. In nineteen eighty nine. According to court records, Christopher was attempting to appeal due to the following issues. Quote The trial court aired in denying his motion to suppressed statements. The trial court unduly restricted the defense's cross examination of the key state witness. The trial court erred in allowing the state's attorney to show a videotape of Christina Hickey to the jury, Certain remarks made by the state's attorney in closing argument and constituted reversible error. The trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on involuntary manslaughter, among others. Their main argument was the denial to have his statements suppressed, on the basis that Christopher claimed he had never been given his Miranda warnings and that he wouldn't have understood them even if he was.

27:43 He said he cooperated the entire time because he had nothing to hide, but that the first time he had ever been given the warnings were in front of the state's attorney. After his arrest. However, he had signed the document verifying that he had been given the warning by detective Coups at the time of questioning on November thirtieth, and that he understood them. Christopher also claimed that he was unaware that he could have a lawyer present during questioning and that he agreed to sign the confession because Kustor told him he could go home. He said he was frightened and just wanted to leave. The court went on to explain that Christopher had signed all necessary waivers allowing for questioning, the administering of the polygraph and haarn DNA samples to be taken, and as a side known, I don't know why police bothered with that because they didn't have any of the evidence tested at all. Now this was denied because the court determined that despite testimony that Christopher had trouble understanding things, he was a very articulate at trial and was able to answer every question asked.

28:53 The court also stated that just because he had a learning disability, it did not mean he was incapable of understanding what was being told or asked of him. Regarding the issue of cross examination, Christopher claimed he was denied the right to question Alan Dennis and explore his probationary status, alluding to the fact that he was not a credible witness because at the time that Allan Dennis told the police about Christopher and what he had allegedly told him. Alan had just been arrested and was being questioned about five burglaries he was accused of committing. The court denied this because Alan had confessed to the burglaries and allegedly did not receive any benefit to speaking about Christopher. Again interesting because the courts decided not to prosecute Alan Dennis for the burglaries, and the reason the court did not instruct the jury to determine if Christopher was guilty of involuntary murder was because they stated that the positioning of Christina's body, the way her dress had been torn and folded before her death, as well as her injuries, were enough to proved that her death was not an accident or the result of a burglary or an assault gone wrong.

30:06 They determined that her murder was very much intentional, which I agree the evidence supports that her murder was intentional. Ultimately, Christopher's appeal was denied, and while he continued to proclaim his innocence as to his family, that was the end of it until it wasn't. As I said in the beginning, the murder of Christina Higgey is a cold case and based on everything I've said until now, it seems as if it is closed. Christopher Abernathy was tried and convicted, and justice was seemingly served. However, decades after his arrest, some journalism students at Northwestern University began looking into Christina's case and they spoke to Alan Dennis. Alan had a lot to tell them. During this conversation, Alan recanted his original testimony and explained that Christopher had never actually told him anything about Christina's murder. He had been pressured to implicate Christopher because Alan was told by police that if he did, he would be given leniency regarding some minor charges, and that they had given him three hundred dollars to buy clothes for court. While Alan had confirms he had committed upwards of thirty burglaries, he was only charged with two and given a two year sentence. He was under the impression that if he refused to implicate Christopher, he

31:38 would be charged with more burglaries and given a harsher sentence. Now, this new evidence was brought to a law firm and an attorney named Lauren Keisberg began looking into the case. In twenty fourteen, Lauren started working with the Illinois Innocence Project, and she asked the Cook County States Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit to examine in the case. This led to an agreement between the Integrity Unit and the Innocence Project in August of twenty fourteen to have evidence retested for DNA and have it processed. Eight items were processed and none of these items contained any DNA belonging to Christopher Abernethy, including the vaginal swab and fingernail scrapings. Partial DNA was found that belonged to a different person entirely, but it was unable to be tested enough to determine who it belonged to due to the DNA profile being incomplete. State's Attorney Anita Alvarez also stated that in addition to the lack of physical evidence time Christopher to Christina's murder, there were also other disturbing issues with his conviction, including the lack of consideration for his diminished mental capacity during the time he signed the confession, as well as the fact that his sign statement did not include any key details of the crime itself. Anita Alvarez and her team confirmed

33:08 that Christopher Abernathy was never near Christina Hickey on the night she was murdered. In fact, the Roebuls were most likely telling the truth that Christopher Abernathy was not in park Force at all on October third of nineteen eighty four. On February eleventh, twenty fifteen, the Conviction Integrity Unit filed a motion to have Christopher's convictions vacated. That same day, this motion was granted and Christopher was released from prison exonerated of all charges twenty eight years after he was found guilty at forty eight years old. And in twenty sixteen, Christopher Abernathy filed a civil rights lawsuit against former Park Forest police officers Carl Custer and Donald Myers the Cook County State Attorney's office when Stephen Theodore, the owner of the polygraph service used by the police. They were accused of forcing Allan Dennis to falsely implicate Christopher Abernathy, as well as conspiring with Stephen Theodore to falsify the polygraph results.

34:16 In twenty seventeen, Christopher received a certificate of innocence as well as two hundred and twenty two thousand dollars in compensation from the State of Illinois, and in twenty nineteen, Park Forest settled for twelve point seven million dollars, Cook County paid three hundred thousand dollars and Steve and Thomas agreed to pay one thousand dollars to settle the lawsuit. While it is amazing that Christopher Abernathy was exonerated because he was innocent, and I believe that Cook County wanted to be able to say that they solved this murder because they put all their efforts into getting Christopher, no one was looking at Christina's case to find her real killer.

34:58 It sat on touched for almost thirty years. Now. It has been over forty years and there have been no real updates, even though old friends of hers have been doing whatever they can to try and get answers, including compiling a timeline of events and a list of attacks and murders that are similar to Christinas that occurred around the same time. This is why organizations like the Cold Case Coalition are so important, because while one victim in this case got justice, meaning Christopher Abernathy being a victim of the law and judicial system, Christina, the one who was so brutally murdered, is still waiting to have her case solved. And I can't understand how it's been forty years and not only did police get the wrong guy, they haven't made any progress in finding the right one.

35:51 Thank you so much for listening and joining me today. This case frustrates me greatly because, as I said, they waste it's so much time zeroing in on the wrong guy. Christina and her case had essentially been ignored for thirty years. Now that they definitely don't have the right guy and Christopher Abernathy has been exonerated, her case is polled, there's no leads, there is no nothing. Hopefully her mother and her father get justice for their daughter, and hopefully at some point that partial DNA profile gets a hit and the source sense Below will be links to the Cold Case Coalition's website. You can check it out see the amazing work that they do, as well as all of the sources for this case. As always, I hope you have a wonderful week and I will see you in the next chapter of the Book of the Dead. Bye, guys, Thank you so much for listening to this chapter of the Book of the Dead, and don't forget that you can always connect with us on Instagram. You can connect with us on Twitter and you can absolutely connect with us on Patreon. We also have a merch store as well that we have frequent discount codes coming out for so that you guys can get March hand drawn by myself at a better cost. We hope you have a lovely rest of your week and just remember please be kind and don't forget to always stay safe, stay curious,

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