Any of you listen to the "Crime Junkies" podcast? Pretty solid

posted by Zunardo

1.  Columbus/Upper Arlington, June 1980 - Asenath Dukat, age 8.  Bludgeoned, strangled, and raped while coming home from school.  Body found near home within hours. A suspect on a bicycle was described but never identified.  No arrests ever made. Brazen daylight crime.  Horrifying to think the guy got away with it easily.

 

Man, remember that one vividly.  When I was little, I used to go to the Dukat's house for Mrs. Dukat to babysit.  I don't remember Asenath (she was called Seanie), but I remember that summer.  I was 10 years old and lived a short distance from there.  I just started my Columbus Citizen-Journal paper route and I used to be paranoid as crap that the murderer was out there in the darkness some mornings.  Then all of those "Safety Spot" signs started going up in windows.  

A really sad and terrible story.  I think about that family once in awhile and cannot imagine a loss like that.  

posted by iclfan2

Any of you listen to the "Crime Junkies" podcast? Pretty solid

I do sometimes. I like True Crime Garage as well and they are from Columbus Ohio so they do a ton of cases focused on Ohio.

posted by SportsAndLady

First two episodes of The Confession Tapes on Netflix is the story of Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay being charged in the murders for Rafay’s entire family. I don’t think there’s a single chance either of them did it, yet they’re sitting in a maximum security prison. 
Would like to know what really happened. That episode really creeped me out. 

Man...watched that last night. Good recommendation.

I'm now hooked on The Confession Tapes...

posted by iclfan2

Any of you listen to the "Crime Junkies" podcast? Pretty solid

Good show 

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

posted by Zunardo

1.  Columbus/Upper Arlington, June 1980 - Asenath Dukat, age 8.  Bludgeoned, strangled, and raped while coming home from school.  Body found near home within hours. A suspect on a bicycle was described but never identified.  No arrests ever made. Brazen daylight crime.  Horrifying to think the guy got away with it easily.

 

Man, remember that one vividly.  When I was little, I used to go to the Dukat's house for Mrs. Dukat to babysit.  I don't remember Asenath (she was called Seanie), but I remember that summer.  I was 10 years old and lived a short distance from there.  I just started my Columbus Citizen-Journal paper route and I used to be paranoid as crap that the murderer was out there in the darkness some mornings.  Then all of those "Safety Spot" signs started going up in windows.  

A really sad and terrible story.  I think about that family once in awhile and cannot imagine a loss like that.  

Dr, did you see yesterday's breakthrough on the 1980 Asenath Dukat case?  UA police said they finally matched DNA from the crime scene to a Brent Strutner, who graduated from UA the year before and grew up in the area.   

Apparently Strutner had quite a few mental and drug issues.  Lots of run-ins with police all over the county and the state.  Committed suicide four years after the murder, so detectives are closing the case as solved.

Lots of interesting info in this link on what the police had on him as a suspect - interviews, eyewitness accounts, etc.  Nothing to qualify for an arrest, but in hindsight is very telling.

https://longwalkhomeua.com/the-first-suspect

Saw that story yesterday - good to know they never gave up on the case and believe it to be solved.  Can't imagine the horrific atrocity the child went through and the family has had to endure. 

posted by Zunardo

Dr, did you see yesterday's breakthrough on the 1980 Asenath Dukat case?  UA police said they finally matched DNA from the crime scene to a Brent Strutner, who graduated from UA the year before and grew up in the area.   

Apparently Strutner had quite a few mental and drug issues.  Lots of run-ins with police all over the county and the state.  Committed suicide four years after the murder, so detectives are closing the case as solved.

Lots of interesting info in this link on what the police had on him as a suspect - interviews, eyewitness accounts, etc.  Nothing to qualify for an arrest, but in hindsight is very telling.

https://longwalkhomeua.com/the-first-suspect

I had not seen this.  Thanks for posting.  I hope it is a tiny bit of peace for their family to at least have a name.  Wow.

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

I had not seen this.  Thanks for posting.  I hope it is a tiny bit of peace for their family to at least have a name.  Wow.

Sounds like the family has known for years but UA police officially closed the case

posted by sportchampps

Sounds like the family has known for years but UA police officially closed the case

Yeah, I guess so.  Wonder why it took this long.