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Will the mysterious details of one teenager's murder lead police to solve two brutal murders committed by the same deadly predator?
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00:00What did you think you were dealing with?
00:04With the ligature around her neck and her pants down,
00:10it appeared to be a sexual predator.
00:12It was very violent.
00:14She went through hell out there.
00:16We knew that it was somebody that was really sick.
00:19We had daughters that were in fear of their safety.
00:24There was a lot of concerned people.
00:28He was a very evil person.
00:32Just pure evil.
00:36Another girl was murdered.
00:38This happened again in our town.
00:40It was a shock.
00:42They were similar in age.
00:44They were in close proximity of each other.
00:48Both had been strangled using an article of clothing.
00:52We thought that those two cases were connected.
00:55Investigators looked at people who had violent sexual assault convictions to see if they were involved.
01:01How real was the fear that whoever killed Christina and Kimberly would strike again?
01:08It was a real concern because if we don't find him, he would be killed again.
01:14This guy's not going to stop.
01:16Hi, I'm Paula Zahn, and tonight we're on the case in Howell, Michigan, a sleepy suburb just west of Detroit.
01:36It was here in this tight-knit community that two young women were abducted off the street during a pair of shockingly similar crimes.
01:46And when their bodies were found, police had little doubt that both had been murdered by the same deadly predator.
01:54From the start, it was clear that solving the cases would be challenging.
01:59Police had few leads and almost no evidence.
02:03In fact, many in law enforcement feared that the only way this prolific killer would be caught was if he struck again.
02:15March 29, 1983.
02:18It was 1.30 on a dreary winter afternoon when police got a disturbing 911 call from a hunter that would force them to confront something far worse than just the elements.
02:32What did he report?
02:35Walking through the state game area in Livingston County, he had come across a half-clothed female found deceased in a wooded area.
02:42At the time, Detective Bob Bazat had no idea he was about to embark upon an investigation that would haunt him the rest of his career.
02:54But one glance at the victim was all it took.
03:00Was it obvious to you how she was killed?
03:04We saw the ligature around her neck and her pants and underwear were down.
03:08So it was pretty obvious as we approached her what we were dealing with.
03:11What did you think you were dealing with?
03:14A sexual predator, definite homicide.
03:18Although the crime scene was troubling, investigators like Ed Moore knew that every piece of evidence they found might be the one that put a killer behind bars.
03:33My initial responsibility was taking pictures of the scene and then processing the scene.
03:43How would you describe the position her body was found in?
03:46She had no clothing from the waist down.
03:48She was dressed from the waist up.
03:51She had on a black t-shirt, a hooded sweatshirt, and then she had a coat that was pulled down behind her back, but her wrists were still in the coat.
04:01Below her right shoulder was her bra that had the straps torn off and was tied in a knot.
04:08Could you tell how the victim had died?
04:11Yes.
04:12She had one of her socks tied around her neck.
04:21Detective Ed Moore carefully collected the other articles of clothing scattered near the victim.
04:27Her blue jeans and one shoe and sock was within 10 to 15 feet to her left side, and her other shoe was approximately 35 feet away from her.
04:47The evidence told a grim story, and the thin layer of wet snow on top of many of the items
04:54helped pinpoint when the attack had taken place.
05:00On the 20th of March, we received about 68 inches of snow during that snowfall.
05:07But it hadn't snowed again for more than a week.
05:11So we figured that she was at that spot before the snow started because she didn't have any snow underneath her.
05:19Police study the ground around the area for additional clues.
05:23Were there any obvious signs of struggle in the area around where her body had been found?
05:30We didn't see any areas of struggle.
05:33The weather probably helped compromise it, but there was no indications of any shoe impressions around her body.
05:42Could you get any sense if the murder happened there or if the body was just disposed there?
05:48We figured that the body was disposed there. She was placed there.
05:54The murder could have happened just about anywhere?
05:56Yes.
05:59And the lack of a crime scene was just one of the factors that made it clear the investigation would be challenging.
06:07Did the victim have any identification on her?
06:09No, and we had not heard any reports, so we didn't know where she was from.
06:15Investigators could only hope that a review of the statewide missing persons database would fill in some of the blanks.
06:23Meanwhile, the victim's body was transported to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.
06:34What did the medical examiner determine was the cause of her death?
06:38The medical examiner listed it as a ligature strangulation homicide.
06:45Were there any obvious defensive wounds on her body?
06:50No.
06:52The Emmy's findings also confirm the motive for the attack.
06:56The medical examiner concluded that she was sexually assaulted.
07:00Was biological evidence found?
07:04Yes, it was.
07:05We took semen, but technology wasn't nearly what it is today.
07:10What was the best you could hope for through testing of that evidence?
07:15Back then, all you're identifying is a blood type.
07:22The troubling evidence detectives saw at the crime scene and the details in the ME's report weighed heavily on them.
07:30This could very easily have happened to any of our daughters.
07:33It becomes much more personal.
07:35I had three daughters, so it gets to you.
07:39Not only being sexually assaulted, but being strangled to death with her own clothing and then being left in a field.
07:49She went through hell out there.
07:53While detectives struggled to put those emotions aside, their colleagues had uncovered a solid lead.
08:04Reports of a missing teenager who had disappeared from a neighboring community nine days before their Jane Doe was found.
08:13She was taken from Redford, Michigan, which is about 50 miles from Howell.
08:17The missing person in that case was 19-year-old Christina Castiglione, and the photograph officers were given erased any doubt that she had been the victim found in the field.
08:31That meant detectives now had to perform the most gut-wrenching job in law enforcement, telling the young woman's family that she was never coming home.
08:49It gets pretty emotional.
08:52It's heartbreaking.
08:56When police arrived at the Castiglione's home, loved ones were still praying for Christina's safe return.
09:04Were you all at home together when the officers broke the tragic news?
09:08Yes.
09:09When I saw them all walking up the driveway and the priest was with them, I thought, this is not good.
09:15They're coming to say that they found her.
09:23The news of Christina's death shattered her family.
09:27I do remember my dad hollering at the priest and told him to get the hell out of his house, because if there was a God, his daughter would be with him today.
09:34For Anna, then just 20, it seemed impossible to believe that her younger sister was gone.
09:44It was a hectic time. We had detectives in and out of the house. It was a shock.
09:52Christina had just graduated high school. She was loved by everyone she knew.
10:00How would you describe Christina's personality?
10:01She was a very social person, very caring, loved animals, loved children. She did a lot of sports. In the summertime, she would teach children basketball. Just a real good person.
10:18But instead of looking forward to a lifetime of celebrating birthdays and milestones with her sister, Anna was now answering questions about who might have wanted Christina dead.
10:29They were talking to me about people I used to know. I said, I have no idea who did this.
10:36Everybody loved her.
10:38Anna and her parents told police that Christina had no enemies and there was no reason for her to have been in that state park 50 miles away.
10:47We had no idea why she would have been where she was found.
10:58Still, detectives believed that if they could uncover how she had ended up in that remote area, it might point them to a suspect.
11:06I'd say 95% of the time, in homicide cases, the victim knows the suspect. It's not just a random type deal.
11:17Who did you think could have been responsible for such a violent attack?
11:22At that time, we weren't really sure. We just knew that it was somebody that was really sick.
11:29Police investigating Christina's murder went back through her missing persons case file and read it cover to cover.
11:51It was already more than a week since the teenager had disappeared. So, detective Bob Besat knew he was playing catch up.
12:04What were some of the first steps you took in the investigation?
12:07We were trying to talk to as many people as we could, tracing her steps. Who's the last person that's seen her?
12:12Redford Township worked with us on trying to piece back together what may have happened.
12:25The mystery began on Saturday evening, March 19th.
12:29Christina had spent the afternoon socializing with the girls.
12:34But as the sun went down, she was ready to head out.
12:38She had been at a friend's house waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up.
12:42And then her boyfriend didn't show up.
12:46Christina eventually decided to make the short trip back home on foot.
12:52She was walking towards our house.
12:55And she stopped at a pay phone and called one of her friends who lived two blocks away from us and said,
13:00I'm coming to your house.
13:01That call was the last time anyone spoke with Christina.
13:11But it wasn't the last time she was seen.
13:16Who was the last person to see Christina?
13:20The last person to see her would have been her boyfriend.
13:22According to Christina's boyfriend, he had seen her from the car he was in with several people,
13:33as she made her way up the road towards her friend's house.
13:37What time of night was this?
13:39She was seen walking on Five Mile Road at about 8 p.m.
13:41How would you describe the road?
13:43Five Mile Road is a very suburban road.
13:45There were streetlights. It was a very well-traveled area.
13:48Investigators were puzzled and had a lot of questions for Christina's boyfriend about what happened next.
13:56Why didn't he pick her up?
13:58He was in a vehicle with a bunch of his friends and Christina didn't necessarily like the friend group that he was associated with.
14:05So he had chose to pass her and then got dropped off at a party store less than a mile down the road.
14:11And waited for her to arrive because she was walking in that direction.
14:14Did she ever make it to the party store?
14:17She did not.
14:20So within minutes of his driving by her, she disappeared?
14:25Yes.
14:29Christina's boyfriend said he tried to find her.
14:33He started walking back towards her and he went to several houses around the area.
14:38People that they kind of hung out with, they were looking for most of the night.
14:41None of the friends had reported seeing her and then the next day is when she was reported missing by her parents.
14:51Officers fanned out and retraced Christina's last known movements.
14:56Redford Township knocked on every door.
15:00They checked with hospitals, her employer, they were on the case and they were working hard at it.
15:04But there were no signings of Christina nor a single clue as to her whereabouts.
15:11Until her body was discovered 50 miles away.
15:14Now, as homicide detectives took over the investigation, they believed the place to start was clear.
15:25They needed to have a face-to-face meeting with Christina's boyfriend.
15:29When you first heard his story, were you surprised that on a cold night he didn't pick her up?
15:34The story from the boyfriend didn't make sense.
15:37The fact that he had bypassed her and then got dropped off down the road rather than stopping and getting out right where she was at, definitely threw up a red flag for investigators.
15:46You try to put yourself in that spot, and I'm thinking, man, I would have stopped. Why didn't he stop?
15:52That's very suspicious.
15:54Was it possible that he was making up that story to cover his tracks?
15:58100%. That's what we thought.
16:04And her boyfriend's credibility came further into question once they heard why he and his friends had driven past Christina.
16:13They were doing drugs.
16:15He had promised her that he wouldn't hang out with these guys because of his drug issues.
16:20He himself had a drug problem.
16:26Those details added to detectives' concerns.
16:30And since they knew that most lies contained an element of the truth,
16:35they wondered if what really happened that night was that Christina had seen her boyfriend in the car,
16:41and when he met up with her, she was angry about his broken promise.
16:47If so, had a heated argument ensued, which led to something tragic.
16:53Did he have a window of opportunity to have killed Christina?
16:58Yes, he would have had a window to kill her.
17:01She wasn't reported missing until the following day.
17:07Christina's loved ones had reached a similar conclusion.
17:11Did your family believe he was involved?
17:15My father did right off the bat.
17:16And now investigators wondered if the physical evidence they had collected would prove those suspicions were right.
17:27He looked like a prime suspect, obviously.
17:41Investigators trying to solve Christina Castiglione's murder
17:45hoped the crime scene evidence would help strengthen the case they were building against her boyfriend.
17:53But forensic testing in 1983 wasn't nearly as conclusive as it is today.
18:00All they could do was blood type it.
18:02They couldn't do anything more than that.
18:04They knew that the suspect was type A.
18:07Did his blood type match the evidence in the case?
18:11It did.
18:13But investigators also knew that type A blood was extremely common.
18:19And the match wasn't strong enough evidence to arrest Christina's boyfriend.
18:28Police spent hours in the interrogation room trying to find a hole in his alibi.
18:33But the emotional young man stuck to his odd story about riding past her just moments before she disappeared.
18:43And surprisingly, the timeline they developed through witness accounts seemed to back it up.
18:50Friends associated with confirmed that he did, in fact, go within the Redford area looking for her that night.
18:55His interview, his statement, everything kind of fit.
19:01Police discovered there was actually no period of time where he was alone long enough to have traveled 50 miles to dispose of Christina's body.
19:10Still, investigators were eager to see what happened when the young man was given a polygraph.
19:20When Christina's boyfriend took a lie detector test, what were the results?
19:24His results came back as him being truthful.
19:28He passed with flying colors.
19:31And police also tested anyone who was with Christina's boyfriend that night.
19:37Once we got their statements and then they passed polygraph tests, we were comfortable that he was not involved.
19:44The results put investigators back at square one.
19:55What did investigators really have to work off of?
19:58Just the boyfriend's statement that he had seen her walking but she never showed?
20:04That was it. There was no evidence. There was no eyewitnesses.
20:08The main theory was that she was abducted into a vehicle.
20:11It was just whether or not it was a stranger or somebody she knew.
20:20Could you find anyone who would have had a reason to hurt Christina?
20:26There was a lot of time and effort put in just trying to develop suspects.
20:30But we couldn't find anybody that would want to harm Christina.
20:33It was difficult because how do you investigate something where there's no evidence and there's no tips?
20:38It's basically boots on the ground, detectives knocking on doors.
20:43Everything was a dead end.
20:47Desperate for a lead, investigators turned to the State Police Behavioral Science Unit hoping they could learn more about the type of person they were looking for.
20:59Did investigators believe that whoever killed Christina had likely killed before?
21:08Yes. They believed that it was somebody who had done this before, somebody who had propensity for violence, somebody who was a sexual deviant.
21:15Detectives poured through dozens of case files from crimes in the surrounding areas, searching for attacks that might match their killer's M.O.
21:28But their hard work paid off when they discovered an eerily similar abduction and murder of a 16-year-old that had taken place a year before Christina's murder.
21:39In fact, the deeper they dug into the attack, the more likely it seemed that it had been committed by the same perpetrator.
21:53Similar circumstances, a similar age female had gone missing.
21:56Both of them had family in the same area at the time and both were found deceased, sexually assaulted.
22:05The location they were taken from, it just kind of made sense that they were connected.
22:10It seemed like the clues were a huge break in the case.
22:14If investigators were right, they were now on the hunt for a deadly predator who had already killed two young women.
22:25But it also raised a chilling question, was it just a matter of time before he struck again?
22:44As investigators continued to work around the clock trying to solve the murder of Christina Castiglione, their focus shifted to a brutal homicide that had taken place almost exactly one year before.
23:01The victim in that case was 16-year-old Kimberly Louissell.
23:06What were some of the similarities between Kimberly and Christina's cases?
23:15They were similar in age.
23:17They looked very similar and were in close proximity of each other.
23:21The operating theory at the time was that she was abducted into a vehicle.
23:26And just like Christina Castiglione, Kimberly's body had been found partially clothed in a field far away from where she was last seen.
23:37Both of them ended up in two separate state-owned lands.
23:41According to the medical reports, she had been beaten, she had been repeatedly raped.
23:46It was a brutal end of Kim's life.
23:53And there was more.
23:56At the time they disappeared, both teenagers were walking home after a ride they had expected never arrived.
24:04In fact, police were convinced that Kimberly was abducted after using a pay phone not far from where Christina had disappeared.
24:14She had made several calls to try to get someone to pick her up.
24:18So witnesses actually remembered seeing her?
24:20Correct.
24:21We had one witness that described someone matching Kim's clothing half a mile west of where that phone booth was.
24:32Were their manner of deaths also similar?
24:35Yes, both had been strangled using an article of clothing of theirs.
24:38All of those little things we look at as pieces of a puzzle and we thought that Christine and Kim's case were connected.
24:47Even though police had no physical evidence to back up their theory, the cases were investigated as one.
24:59And that opened up new avenues for detectives to explore.
25:03Did you look into any of the suspects in Kimberly's case?
25:07We did. We started working together with the state police.
25:10We were trying to cross investigations and suspects and see if there was any connections.
25:15They were even interviewing Kimberly's ex-boyfriends and her family about Christina to see if there was any ties that they could find there.
25:22Did they know each other?
25:23By all accounts, they did not.
25:26Was there any detail from Kimberly's case that helped move Christina's case forward?
25:32No, nothing that really helped push Christina's case forward.
25:41Police found the lack of progress troubling.
25:44And it was even more disturbing for the parents of teenage girls in Livingston County, who were forced to wonder if their child might be next.
25:56There was a lot of concerned people when you'd walk down the street and people knew that you were in law enforcement, wanting to know, have you found anything?
26:05We had daughters that were in fear of their safety. The urgency was very high.
26:09You have two victims and this guy's not going to stop unless he's caught.
26:15Did any promising tips come in?
26:18None. The tips that came in were people who believed they saw something, who wanted to give a name that they thought of somebody who could be involved, but ultimately they were all ruled out.
26:30For detectives like Bob Bazat, every name scratched off the list was painful.
26:36The unsolved cases never left his mind.
26:41Is it true that you've had a picture of Christina on your desk?
26:46Yeah, just as a reminder to make sure I did something every day on her case.
26:50Nothing detectives did brought them any closer to identifying a suspect.
26:55It was a helpless feeling.
26:57Any time that you can't bring closure to a family and something this horrific, it is frustrating because you're looking for answers to help the family.
27:10But police had nothing that even resembled an answer.
27:15And with each passing day, their fears of the call that will report the killer's next victim grew.
27:22Detectives were very concerned that they had a serial predator on their hands. Did he strike again?
27:28He did not. It just stopped in 1983.
27:31Did that surprise them?
27:33It did. Investigators just didn't understand how one person did multiple murders and then just stopped.
27:39Although detectives were obviously relieved that no more teenagers were murdered, it also meant that their chances of finding a vicious killer were slowly fading away.
27:56Did the investigation hit a standstill?
27:58Yeah, in about 1986, tips stopped coming in. There was nothing really more to follow up on. DNA technology still had not progressed to where we could do anything more with the evidence. The case had gone cold at that point.
28:13What did you think needed to happen to solve the case?
28:17A miracle. Honestly, a miracle. The detectives on these cases poured their heart and soul into them. And for some reason, they were just unable to find that missing piece.
28:25You know there's something out there. It's just a matter of trying to find it.
28:35But for decades, the big break investigators needed to crack the cases remained out of reach.
28:43Just how determined were you to try to bring the family some answers?
28:47I was very devoted to the case. You looked at the physical evidence, you looked at the interviews, the polygraphs, everything together and you're saying, OK, what am I missing here?
28:57You have other detectives come in and you say, OK, these are the facts. Any more ideas?
29:05Did you lose faith that the case would ever be solved?
29:08I wouldn't say I lost faith. I knew in my heart they were still trying to find who did this.
29:14But that faith only made investigators feel worse when it became clear that the answers everyone so desperately wanted would not arrive in time to ease the pain of Christina's parents.
29:26One of the saddest things about this whole story is the mom and dad both passed away.
29:33My mom had said she just wished she knew what happened to her daughter.
29:37And then my dad was the same way. The night before she passed away, I told her, go see Christine.
29:41Still, Anna remained committed to getting justice for her sister and Kimberly.
29:53And so were investigators.
29:56And the evidence they needed to officially connect the two murders and find a vicious killer was almost within reach.
30:11The investigation into the murders of Kimberly Lewisell and Christina Castiglione were a top priority for the cold case task force investigating them.
30:30They believed solving one would ultimately lead to justice for both.
30:36But for now, Christina's case held the most promise.
30:42When you looked into Christina's case for the first time, did you really think it could be solved?
30:49I did. This is the only cold case that we had in Livingston County that had DNA evidence.
30:53And I started really looking at what you could do with DNA.
30:56The team hoped that the development of CODIS, the FBI's national DNA database, would be the key to identifying a suspect.
31:06Investigators were so hopeful with CODIS technology that we would have a known offender.
31:14When the unknown profile was entered into CODIS, was there a hit?
31:20There was not. No hits came back.
31:22Cold case investigators went back to the beginning and attempted to review the massive case files.
31:35But the process was incredibly time consuming.
31:38Our cold case files are unorganized.
31:41We have papers and binders and boxes full of stuff.
31:43The problem seemed like it might overwhelm the effort until Detective Sergeant Larry Rothman reached out to the Michigan State University's Criminal Justice Program.
31:55What kind of help did you need from the students?
31:58Helping to organize the cases and helping to find out what we're missing.
32:02The students digitized every report into an easily searchable database.
32:07It made all the hard work done by previous investigators available to the team with a single keystroke.
32:18And from the start, it was obvious what the biggest hurdle would be.
32:23Finding physical evidence that would confirm investigators' decades-old theory that Kimberly Louissell's unsolved murder was connected to Christina's.
32:33What did you see as your biggest challenge?
32:37We had a lot of physical evidence, but we had no DNA.
32:40Sergeant Rothman checked his newly compiled evidence list, looking for something that could be submitted to the crime lab.
32:48But the technicians he spoke with weren't optimistic.
32:52You look at a case 40 years old, we were told that it would be one of those needle in a haystack type of situations.
32:57But despite the long odds, the lab agreed to process every item.
33:03While he waited for the results, Sergeant Rothman turned to his faith.
33:09I'd been praying that if there was any evidence there whatsoever that God would reveal that.
33:14Then, a few weeks later, his phone rang.
33:17Take me back to the day when you got the results from the testing on that DNA evidence.
33:26We have a connection between the Louissell case and the Castiglione case.
33:31It was amazing, absolutely amazing.
33:34For me, it was an answer to prayer.
33:36So it, in fact, was the miracle that you thought it was going to take to solve this case?
33:41It was. It was a miracle. I think it's pretty clear that's what it was.
33:48A miracle that would allow the two cases to be prosecuted as one if they ever found the man responsible.
33:56All of these cold cases were being solved through forensic genealogy.
34:01That's when we pursued that process.
34:03The DNA evidence was sent to a private forensic lab that created a massive family tree related to the suspect.
34:12Investigators painstakingly whittled the list down until they reached their goal.
34:17Only one name really stood out.
34:19What was his name?
34:21Charles David Shaw.
34:22As detectives dived into Shaw's past, they were convinced they were on the right track.
34:33What did you find out about him when you looked into his background?
34:37I started looking in all of my databases and we immediately located an arrest record in 1981,
34:43where he was arrested for attempted abduction of another female.
34:47What were the details of that attack?
34:49The woman reported that she was in the McDonald's parking lot in her car.
34:53And a male approached her at her driver's side window and sprayed some sort of chemical irritant into her face and then tried to pull her out the window of her vehicle.
35:04The victim managed to fight off Shaw.
35:07And as he fled the scene, she got a good look at his car.
35:12She was able to get a good make and model of the vehicle as well as a license plate.
35:15And investigators caught up with him a short distance away from where the incident occurred and arrested him.
35:21And how much time did he serve in prison for that?
35:23He actually didn't go to prison.
35:25He spent about two weeks in the Livingston County Jail and pled his case down to two years of probation.
35:31And there was more. During his probation, Charles Shaw lived and worked in the area where both Christina and Kimberly were attacked.
35:46Charles David Shaw actually resided on the same street as Kimberly Lewisell's boyfriend.
35:52Then he later got an apartment within a mile of where Christina lived with her parents.
35:56What went through your mind when you saw that in the file?
35:59I knew it was him.
36:01It made perfect sense.
36:02After four long decades, the pieces of the puzzle had finally come together.
36:08Based on the evidence you had against him, did you think you had enough to charge Shaw with murder?
36:16Absolutely.
36:18That's when Sergeant Young discovered a devastating detail.
36:22We learned that he had died in 1983.
36:27How disappointing was it to learn that he had died?
36:30It was disappointing because I wanted to be able to put handcuffs on this guy and put him in jail.
36:35But there is some solace knowing that he's probably burning in hell right now.
36:41Investigators learned that at the time of his death, Shaw was a deeply troubled man, living alone, tormented by his own psychological issues.
36:54Gerald Shaw's family was very, very cooperative with us.
36:57They told us that he had problems.
36:58He was a disturbed young man and things going on within him that drove him to do these type of crimes.
37:10Still, Shaw's death, just over a year after Christina's murder, helped explain two of the biggest mysteries on the case.
37:19Why the attacks had come to such a sudden end and why Shaw's DNA never made it into CODIS.
37:28Is there any doubt in your mind that if Shaw had lived, that he would have murdered again?
37:33He absolutely would have.
37:34He absolutely would have.
37:36You could see from 1981 until Christina's death that his propensity for violence was increasing.
37:42I think he would have continued along the manner that he was going.
37:45He was a very evil person.
37:47Just pure evil.
37:48Shaw's death also meant there are questions that will never be answered.
38:00In particular, how and why Shaw targeted the two teenagers.
38:05What do you think happened on the night of Christina's abduction and murder?
38:12I believe based on the 1981 case and the way that he operated that he used some sort of force to control Christina and order her into his vehicle.
38:23And then from there, she was killed and sexually assaulted.
38:28And just like Kimberly Lewisell, Christina was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
38:36He saw her alone and took the opportunity to victimize her.
38:45For Sheriff Bob Azat, it was the end of the most painful case of his career.
38:50How satisfying was it to bring the family some answers?
38:54You finally know what happened.
38:56Try to bring a resolution to the family.
38:58If there's any detective out there that's worked on these cases, you know, it gets to you.
39:02I can see it cuts you deep.
39:04It does.
39:06Makes you appreciate family a lot more.
39:07And those deep emotions made investigators meeting with Anna Castiglione a moment no one will ever forget.
39:21What was your reaction when you were informed that Charles David Shaw's DNA was a match to the DNA from the crime scene?
39:30Thank God. I never expected them to tell me that.
39:35Were you angry that he never had to face justice for what he had done?
39:40Yes. He was a horrible person. My sister did not deserve this.
39:45But the bitterness was offset by a sense of gratitude.
39:49What did it mean to you that law enforcement never gave up on Christina's case?
39:54It was absolutely wonderful because this doesn't happen all the time.
39:59They wanted to solve the murder like it was their own son or daughter.
40:05And even though the final resolution had come too late for her own mother and father, Anna knows they are now finally at peace.
40:17They are with her and they're happy now. They got their answers.
40:23And I just think of it that way.
40:28What kind of a woman do you think Christina would have become if her life hadn't been tragically cut short?
40:36I think she probably would have been caring for other people because she loved doing that stuff.
40:41I'm sure I'd have nieces and nephews.
40:42Now, especially being older, I just miss her altogether.
40:47I wish I had a sister.
40:53Police say they will continue to work with the criminal justice students at Michigan State University to bring other families the justice they deserve.
41:04I'm Paula Zahn. Please join us again next time when we're back on the case.
41:09On the next, on the case.
41:12On the next, on the case.
41:14When they walked into Kathy's bedroom, what did they see?
41:18She was stabbed, strangled and beaten.
41:21It's about as bad as it could get.
41:23On her left leg was written, I was here.
41:27Did the killer leave us a message?
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