UPDATE: Monster in Fort Wayne, Indiana

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UPDATE: Monster in Fort Wayne, Indiana

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This is April Marie Tinsley, who was abducted on April 1, 1988, from her neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Here is a map detailing the key locations we cover in the case.

This is a picture of the note scrawled on the barn door in 1990.

This is the full note police found in 2004 alone with the killer’s DNA in a used condom.

Here are clips from other notes left at the same time.

Above is the “m” and the start of another letter that we talked about in the episode. It looks to us like the start of an “a” based on the other As in his other letters.

Here is the bedspread police are looking for. Do you recognize it?

Here is the sex toy that police found in a Sears shopping bag near April’s body in 1988. This information was not released until 2012 on America’s Most Wanted.

Based on the Parabon Snapshot done using the killer’s DNA, this is what he could have looked like in 1988 and 2016.

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UPDATE: Monster in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Episode Summary

Listen Now

Episode Info

This is April Marie Tinsley, who was abducted on April 1, 1988, from her neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Here is a map detailing the key locations we cover in the case.

This is a picture of the note scrawled on the barn door in 1990.

This is the full note police found in 2004 alone with the killer’s DNA in a used condom.

Here are clips from other notes left at the same time.

Above is the “m” and the start of another letter that we talked about in the episode. It looks to us like the start of an “a” based on the other As in his other letters.

Here is the bedspread police are looking for. Do you recognize it?

Here is the sex toy that police found in a Sears shopping bag near April’s body in 1988. This information was not released until 2012 on America’s Most Wanted.

Based on the Parabon Snapshot done using the killer’s DNA, this is what he could have looked like in 1988 and 2016.

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