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00:17Teenage kids sometimes get involved in strange things.
00:23We were looking for a missing 16-year-old wandering around at 2 o'clock in the morning
00:28by herself on U.S. 131.
00:32That's the last time anybody had seen her at all.
00:39She was involved with this man that worships this book of shadows, witchcraft.
00:45An anonymous tip says that she is going to be in a Wiccan sacrifice.
00:53We'd go to the cabin in the woods.
00:55There was kind of like an altar, occult-type symbols.
01:00It was definitely some type of ritual.
01:06Another local woman disappeared.
01:10We had two missing women from the same area.
01:16Witnesses see this guy off the side of the road with a shovel trying to dig.
01:20Whatever happened, happened on that road.
01:45Northern Michigan is very rural.
01:52There's thousands and thousands of acres of forest, wooded areas.
01:59There's not a lot of people around.
02:03It's very remote.
02:06In the middle of nowhere.
02:14Bad things happen.
02:24We have people coming from all around northern Michigan during mushroom season.
02:29They come to pick mushrooms in spring.
02:33On May 18th, 1996, a man was hunting for morale mushrooms near Huffman Lake.
02:39And he came across a brush pile, observed what he thought to be a human skull.
02:48He immediately backed off.
02:50He didn't touch anything, and he contacted the state police post.
02:56The area was a two-track road, directly off of Huffman Lake Road, in a very remote area.
03:04This mushroom hunter meets me at the road, leads me back to this spot in the woods.
03:12At the site, there was a brush pile.
03:14There were a few bones scattered around that had been moved by the critters.
03:20Around the leaves, I could see the top part of the skull.
03:25We didn't know if the victim was a man or a woman.
03:30It was most definitely the skull of a human.
03:37Well, the crime lab came out and cordoned off the scene.
03:41And the first thing was photographs, marking the area.
03:47And then, as they removed the brush pile, there was more of the skeleton there.
03:54It had decayed so bad that it was definitely going to be up to a forensic pathologist
03:58to determine the exact cause of death.
04:02You don't die and cover yourself up with brush.
04:05Somebody had to do that.
04:09It was certainly a murder in my mind.
04:30Traverse City, Michigan has no major highways to get there.
04:33People in the big city just wouldn't understand how out of the way it is.
04:40It always felt like a good place for kids to get in trouble.
04:50Growing up in Traverse City in the 90s was more of an exploration of looking for a party.
04:59There wasn't a whole lot to do.
05:01We did a lot of driving around.
05:06You would go out into the forest or out on the lake and kind of create your own entertainment.
05:20I met Kathy Horn probably when she was 14 or 15.
05:25She was a sophomore and I was a junior in high school.
05:28We just hit it off.
05:31She became my best friend.
05:34Kathy and her mom, Janice, moved to Traverse City from Detroit in about 1992.
05:41Just the two of them.
05:43They got an adorable apartment on top of this bakery right downtown.
05:49Kathy was a bubbly girl, very carefree.
05:52Her nickname was Jivarun because she was very talkative.
05:55Kathy was smart.
05:57She wanted to be a marine biologist and swim with dolphins.
06:03She was ready to go tackle everything in the world.
06:09Kathy did push boundaries.
06:14She had tattoos.
06:16A cross on her ankle, a star and moon on her breast.
06:20It was uncommon back then.
06:23I think it was maybe teenage rebellion.
06:27Kathy did what she wanted.
06:30Kathy had a very free spirit and she was just kind of wild at heart.
06:40September 23rd, 1994, Friday night and we decided to go out to Gaylord.
06:47About an hour and a half drive from Traverse City, go up to the coffee house that we like to
06:52visit and just hang out.
06:55Kathy wanted to pick up her friend Scott in Mancelona on the way.
06:59We picked him up and his girlfriend Lori and his other friend Tommy and then continued our drive to Gaylord.
07:17We get to the coffee shop and, you know, we sit down and have coffee or whatever.
07:29About midnight, Scott, Lori and Tommy wanted to go home.
07:34I had gotten into a really good conversation with somebody and I wasn't quite ready.
07:39Our friend David, he was older, somebody that we had met prior in the summer.
07:44He agreed to drive them home to Mancelona.
07:49Kathy decided that she wanted to go as well.
07:52She was supposed to meet up with our friend Matt Baker in Traverse City in the morning the next day
07:57to see the Grateful Dead.
08:01Mancelona is probably halfway between Traverse City and Gaylord.
08:06So Dave said that he'd drive her to Traverse City.
08:11They got in the van and they drove off into the night.
08:21Monday, September 26th, 1994, was a school day.
08:26I went to school as normal.
08:28I didn't see Kathy there and I hadn't heard from her all weekend.
08:32We didn't have cell phones or beepers or anything like that back then.
08:37But Kathy always let one of her friends know where she was.
08:41I went to her mom Janice's house and asked her, do you know where Kathy's at?
08:46Have you seen her?
08:48Janice freaked out a little bit and said, I thought she was with you.
08:54Because she was with me all the time.
08:56She said, what do you mean she's not with you?
08:58Janice hadn't seen her in three days.
09:00My hackles went up and then I was afraid.
09:06I knew something wasn't right.
09:09Janice decided to go to the police station and file a missing persons report and I went with her.
09:19Kathy's mother, Janice, and Kim said that Kathy Horne was missing
09:24after she had gone to Gaylord on the 23rd of September to a coffee house there.
09:32Now, three days later, we ended up putting her into LEAN,
09:36which is a law enforcement intelligence network.
09:41Kathy was 16 years old and 5'2", 114 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
09:50Kathy worked as a busser at a restaurant.
09:53We found out that she didn't pick up her paycheck
09:56and didn't show up for work for a number of days.
10:00We checked, and she did have a bank account.
10:03She had $120 in there that hadn't been touched.
10:08A girl that age, if she's going to run away, she's going to take that money.
10:12Those kind of things are flags for something's wrong.
10:22Shortly after Kathy Horne disappeared, I was contacted by the Traverse City Police Department
10:28because this was a multi-jurisdictional case.
10:31I was asked to look into her disappearance.
10:34She was last seen at the Times Coffee House in the Gaylord area.
10:39So I went out there.
10:42According to the manager, Kathy and her friends sometimes hung around there at the coffee house.
10:48She was wearing a blue plaid shirt.
10:51She had brought a bluish-gray wool-type blanket with her.
10:57Kathy and her friends had arranged a ride with a person named David Zinke,
11:02and they left around midnight.
11:06I set out with a trooper to find the driver of the vehicle, David Zinke.
11:11We were able to locate him at a property in Huffman Lake Road.
11:17David Zinke admitted that he, in fact, had given these individuals a ride.
11:21They were drinking, smoking marijuana in the van from Taylor to Mancelona.
11:27And after they got out, supposedly he was supposed to go to Traverse City with Kathy.
11:31But as they were starting to head south, he told her he didn't have enough money or gas
11:35to get her to Traverse City, and 100 yards or so down the road,
11:40she got out and tried to catch up with her friends.
11:50We have a 16-year-old girl wandering around at 2 o'clock in the morning by herself on US
11:56131.
11:59There's nobody out at that time of night around there.
12:02It's completely dark.
12:05That's the last time anybody had seen her at all.
12:13We asked David if we could have consent to look in his van,
12:16which was a total pigsty, full of junk.
12:20We searched the vehicle,
12:25but there was nothing that we found that gave us any evidence
12:28of what might have happened to Kathy Warren.
12:31We were suspicious of David Zinke,
12:33but we had nothing concrete to put towards him.
12:38During the interview with David,
12:40he indicated that some of the individuals that were with her,
12:43he thought were kind of shady.
12:45We find out who these individuals are,
12:47and one of them was Scott Blyat.
12:49We learned that he was somewhat of a vagrant living in a tent in somebody's backyard.
12:55Didn't look like he was working at the time.
12:59He did run a criminal check,
13:01and I discovered that he had been involved with law enforcement.
13:04So obviously he was an extreme person of interest.
13:08We learned that he, in fact, had a conviction for negligent homicide.
13:15She told us about Kathy possibly being involved in a cult.
13:21We went down to the cabin,
13:23and I'm looking around this property,
13:25and it's kind of giving me the creeps.
13:28It was definitely some type of satanic worship.
13:51In early October,
13:53we were looking for missing 16-year-old Kathy Horn.
13:57The investigation led us to Scott Blyat,
14:01one of the persons that was in the vehicle with her,
14:04the night that she was last seen.
14:06And he had the criminal record that involved a negligent homicide case.
14:12So obviously at that point, he was on my radar screen.
14:23I found Scott Blyat living in a tent in somebody's backyard in Masselona, Michigan.
14:28And he explained to me that night that Kathy Horn disappeared.
14:33A person named David Zinke had given them a ride from Gaylord to Masselona.
14:45Along the way, they had been smoking marijuana and drinking.
14:52He wasn't sure exactly the route they took.
15:01They got to Masselona, Michigan, and they all got out to talk.
15:06Kathy Horn wanted to proceed on to Traverse City.
15:09And as far as he could remember, Kathy got back in the van.
15:13He says the van did not stop and headed south on 131.
15:18Scott confirmed that Kathy's plans were to meet her friend Matt Baker at a park
15:24to follow the grateful dead.
15:26She was adamant about getting back to Traverse City.
15:30I thought that Scott Blyat was very credible,
15:34seemed very concerned about her whereabouts.
15:37Scott also gave us the full names of the other individuals that were in the van.
15:41Tommy Jackson and Lori Smith.
15:44We went to interview them, and they were a little fuzzy about that night.
15:48But they had not seen Kathy since she disappeared.
15:52Their stories were all consistent with Scott Blyat.
15:56We got a hold of Matt Baker.
15:59He had not seen Kathy, and she had not come to the park in Traverse City.
16:04It was very common to go and travel with the Grateful Dead.
16:08It just seemed like she probably just set up transportation plans with somebody else
16:12and decided to go tour with the band.
16:15It didn't strike me as odd.
16:18We followed up on the Grateful Dead groups,
16:20and there was no indication ever that she had shown up with any of these groups
16:25that followed the Grateful Dead around.
16:29And we conducted numerous interviews all around the county,
16:33but we had no idea what happened to Kathy.
16:38I was really starting to worry about her.
16:40It was terrifying, because my best friend was gone.
16:43We didn't know who she was.
16:47Kathy's mom did everything that she could.
16:49She called news stations.
16:51She asked permission to spend the weekend with her girlfriend and return Monday.
16:55And then she looked at me and smiled at pretty small of hers.
16:58She said, don't worry, Mommy.
17:00I could take care of myself.
17:02And that's the last I heard from Kathy.
17:06Janice had missing person flyers, you know, with Kathy's face plastered all over it.
17:15Kathy's mother, Janice, wrote, said that Kathy had been dating an older boy who was 18 or 19 named Mike
17:22Hoekstra.
17:23And so, obviously, he was someone we wanted to contact.
17:28On October 3rd, we conducted an interview with Mike Hoekstra at his mother's residence in Gaylord.
17:34Mike tells me that he was not even in the Gaylord area when Kathy disappeared.
17:40Mike Hoekstra said he had no contacts with her since he had moved to Grand Rapids.
17:45But teenagers don't always tell the truth, and we didn't know what to think.
17:56We asked Mike Hoekstra, along with Tommy, Scott, and Lori, the other people that had been in the van with
18:04Kathy,
18:05to take polygraph tests also, and they passed.
18:11I ruled Mike Hoekstra out as a suspect in the case.
18:15I'm pretty well convinced that none of them have anything to do with Kathy's disappearance.
18:22We also asked David Zinke, the original driver of the van, to take a polygraph, but he didn't show up.
18:31It was obviously suspicious, but everything was totally circumstantial.
18:36I had nothing on him.
18:42Over the week after Kathy Horn went missing, nobody had seen her or heard from her.
18:49We had canine units out there looking in wooded areas.
18:53There was people on horseback, people on ATVs, volunteer search groups.
18:59Of course, northern Michigan is acres of swamp and forest.
19:04Some spots are very, very remote.
19:06So really trying to locate somebody is pretty hard, if not impossible.
19:12Everybody is puzzled as to where this girl had gone.
19:15I'm getting a very uneasy feeling at this point in the investigation.
19:19Anything could have happened to Kathy Moore.
19:39Kathy Moore was missing for about two weeks,
19:43and we're still not anywhere with finding out where she's at.
19:50We have searches going on all over the county.
19:54There were posters all over town with her picture all over northern Michigan.
19:58It was in the newspaper.
20:01But we're not getting tips that she's been seen anywhere.
20:05Still a mystery.
20:15We did interview a number of people.
20:20And they told us about Kathy possibly being involved in a cult.
20:29Kathy was definitely one to be curious about witchcraft and paganism.
20:33She claimed to be a witch.
20:35When she wrote her name, she would put a pentagram next to it.
20:43It certainly throws up a red flag.
20:46We needed to look into it.
20:48This individual by the name of Don Sklaric's name came up from a couple different sources
20:52who supposedly followed some type of wicca or witchcraft.
20:58This group was into this thing called Book of Shadows.
21:03And Kathy Horn really wanted to be a member of the group.
21:08Our sources told us that this book says that if you take somebody's power,
21:14that power then becomes your power.
21:15And it made it sound very ominous.
21:19I didn't know what to make of all this.
21:22I didn't know whether she was being hidden by this group or what was going on.
21:30And then we received a tip that Kathy Horn was at Don Sklaric's cabin
21:35and that she had been staying there.
21:47I had a trooper with me.
21:49We went down to Don Sklaric's cabin in the southern part of Otsego County.
21:54Looking at the property, I noticed there was kind of like an altar in the backyard.
22:01It was obvious there was some type of activity that was going on.
22:08And we knocked on the door and the door was ajar.
22:13And nobody answered.
22:15So we went in to see if Kathy was in there.
22:21Once inside the cabin, which was just a one-room cabin,
22:26there was a lot of occult-type symbols.
22:31And I'm looking around this property and it's kind of giving me the creeps.
22:35Weird-looking stars on the wall, satin robes and that type of thing.
22:42It was definitely some type of ritual-type activity there
22:47with indications of satanic worship.
22:53It was a very strange atmosphere.
22:58But we didn't find any trace of Kathy.
23:02And Sklaric wasn't there.
23:06It was known that Don Sklaric was a cook at one of the restaurants in town.
23:11But we couldn't just arrest him.
23:13There was no evidence that he had committed a crime.
23:22It had been so long and nobody had seen Kathy.
23:26There was a candlelight vigil.
23:29It was this moment when the community kind of understood that something was really bad happening.
23:36And if Kathy was rebelling, this was also a moment to get on the news to be like,
23:42hey, you know, we want you to come back home.
23:45Please, you know, contact me.
23:47Call me.
23:52Then on Halloween night, the post received an anonymous tip
23:56saying that Kathy Horne was down at Don Sklaric's cabin
24:02alive and going to be sacrificed in a Wiccan ritual at midnight.
24:10The service department had taken a missing report on a local mother.
24:15And then another mushroom hunter found what he believes is a human skull.
24:22As detectives, we had to think, is there somebody out there doing a serial murder?
24:44At the end of October 1994,
24:48teenager Kathy Horne has been missing for five weeks.
24:53Northern Michigan is very rural.
24:56Teenage kids sometimes get involved in strange things,
25:00especially on Halloween night.
25:05At night, an anonymous tip says that Kathy Horne is alive,
25:11but is going to be in a Wiccan sacrifice at midnight.
25:22The call on the tip line said that Kathy was down at Don Sklaric's cabin,
25:28a man who we believe was a Wicca cult leader.
25:34I contacted the post and instructed Trooper Nassar to proceed down to the cabin and look into it.
25:44At the cabin, Trooper Nassar was able to make contact with Don Sklaric.
25:50Kathy Horne wasn't there.
25:52There was just a few people there,
25:53but there was no type of ceremony or anything going on.
25:59Don Sklaric was very adamant that Kathy was not on his property,
26:03had not been on his property,
26:04and he had nothing to do with her missing or had not seen her.
26:09When confronted about the witchcraft thing,
26:12he explained that it really wasn't witchcraft or anything evil.
26:15They just kind of worshipped Mother Earth
26:17and, in fact, was more than willing to take a polygraph test.
26:25He showed up the next day,
26:28passed the test.
26:30Based on my experience, his body language,
26:33the fact that he took the polygraph and passed it,
26:35I did not consider Don Sklaric a person of interest anymore.
26:50As the months went by,
26:52Janice, Kathy's mother, never let off the gas.
26:55She was always pushing and searching
26:58and trying to find something
27:01that would give us some kind of clue where Kathy was.
27:05I would hope and pray,
27:08bring her home.
27:09Let her come home to us.
27:18In September of 95,
27:20I was alerted by the Otsego County Sheriff's Department
27:23that they had taken a missing report
27:25on a local mother named Nancy Green.
27:28Her mother had not been able to reach her for several weeks.
27:32She was a local woman.
27:33She was a nice person,
27:35well-known to everybody in the community.
27:39But there wasn't really much information
27:41about her whereabouts.
27:46Now we had two investigations going at one time,
27:49two missing women from the same area.
27:53It started to make me wonder
27:55if they could be associated with each other.
27:59As detectives, we had to think,
28:02is there somebody out there doing a serial murder?
28:07We didn't get a lot of information.
28:10Time passed.
28:11The investigation was starting to get cold.
28:22May 8, 1996,
28:25during Morrell mushroom season,
28:27the post received a call from some mushroom hunters
28:30that they had found some clothing,
28:32which they found suspicious on a Pike School Road
28:35in a remote area of Otsego County.
28:40When I got there,
28:41I looked at the clothing items,
28:43which were pretty badly deteriorated.
28:46We wondered if they belonged
28:48to one of the two missing women.
28:53I contacted Kathy's mother.
28:56Janice wrote and asked her to come to the post.
28:59And I laid the evidence out on the table.
29:04There was a yin-yang necklace,
29:06and there was some other clothing items.
29:10She immediately recognized the clothing as Kathy's.
29:14And she lost it.
29:18Janice became very despondent
29:20because we have this clothing,
29:22but we don't have a person with the clothing.
29:24And at this point,
29:25we know that something happened in the woods.
29:28There was no doubt in my mind
29:30that Kathy was dead.
29:47By 1996,
29:49Kathy Horn's been missing for nearly two years.
29:53Nancy Green was also still missing.
29:57But on May 8th,
29:59mushroom hunters near Huffman Lake
30:01discovered clothing, jewelry,
30:03and a shirt in the woods.
30:07Kathy Horn's mother, Janice Rowe,
30:09recognized the clothing as Kathy's.
30:14Obviously, she was upset.
30:16At that point,
30:17we knew that Kathy was a victim of foul play.
30:22I contacted the Otsego County Road Commission
30:25and had them dig up that entire area,
30:28thinking that Kathy's remains might be there.
30:32But no human remains were found.
30:36But I know whatever happened to Kathy
30:38happened on that road.
30:44Several days later,
30:45on May 18th, 1996,
30:49another mushroom hunter found what he believes is a human skull.
30:55He calls to report what he sees.
30:58At this point, Kathy Horn's missing almost two years.
31:02Nancy Green was missing about a year or so.
31:07We didn't know if this was one of them,
31:09but I immediately responded out there with a trooper.
31:13These alleged remains were found right near Huffman Lake,
31:17back on a two-track road in a very remote area in the woods,
31:21approximately five miles from where Kathy's clothing was found.
31:25When I got there,
31:27it was obvious to me that, in fact,
31:28it was a human skull
31:31covered with a brush pile.
31:33It was impossible to identify
31:34who this person was at this point,
31:36but I could clearly see
31:38that there was a grayish-blue blanket there.
31:42And I knew that Kathy Horn
31:45had a grayish-blue blanket with her
31:47the night that she had disappeared.
31:52At that point, I contacted the crime lab
31:55to come out there and process the scene.
31:58As they removed the brush pile,
32:00they collected evidence,
32:02and then the remains were transported to the pathologist.
32:06He was unable to determine the exact cause of death.
32:10Just based on the circumstances of the case,
32:13the victim died of homicidal means.
32:16The body was ultimately identified by dental records
32:20to be Kathy Horn.
32:28We needed to notify her mother, Janice,
32:31so I went over there
32:35and talked to her in person.
32:37But she knew it.
32:38As soon as she saw me,
32:40she said,
32:42it was a mother's intuition.
32:46Janice was quite upset,
32:48but at least she has her baby back now.
32:54When I heard that they had found Kathy's body,
32:57I was floored.
32:58It was just...
33:01I couldn't comprehend that it happened that way.
33:07My heart sank,
33:09but there was a sense of closure.
33:13Now we can stop
33:15waiting for her to come home.
33:24As time goes on,
33:25we are not coming up with any evidence
33:27of what might have happened to Kathy Horn
33:29for Nancy Green.
33:32There's no fingerprints,
33:33there's no eyewitnesses,
33:35and there was no DNA at the time.
33:41The investigations went cold
33:44in the years past.
33:47In September of 99,
33:49there was an article published
33:50in the Gaylord Herald Times
33:52about the disappearance
33:52of Kathy Horn and Nancy Green.
33:57A man who lived in the area
33:59comes forward
34:00and said he saw the picture
34:02of the missing girl
34:03in the paper, Kathy Horn,
34:04and it triggered his memory
34:06of an incident that happened
34:08five years earlier.
34:17He told us that
34:19on a nice fall day,
34:20he was driving around
34:21with his wife
34:22looking at the fall colors.
34:24When they came around the curb
34:25by a hill,
34:26and it's a large green van
34:29parked in the road,
34:31and there was a girl
34:32propped up on the driver's side
34:34by the wheel well
34:35wearing a blue plaid shirt,
34:38clothing that Kathy was wearing
34:40when she disappeared.
34:43They thought the girl
34:45was sleeping and had been sick
34:46because she kind of had
34:47a grayish, ashen look to her.
34:51And then they'd see
34:53this scruffy little guy
34:54off the side of the road
34:55with a shovel trying to dig
34:57in the exact same spot.
35:02Kathy Horn's clothing
35:03was discovered
35:04by the mushroom on Earth,
35:07which was not publicized
35:09and was not known
35:10to the public.
35:12And at that point,
35:13it was very clear to me
35:15that the description
35:16of this man
35:17and the green van
35:19pointed to one person,
35:22David Zinke.
35:25During the course
35:27of the investigation,
35:28we discovered
35:29that Nancy Green,
35:30who was still missing,
35:32had been seen
35:32on Thumb Lake Road,
35:35and she was in the company
35:36of David Zinke.
35:37This was totally circumstantial,
35:39but that confirmed
35:41he was directly connected
35:42to the two women.
35:49So I went to interview him.
35:55At that time,
35:56he was already
35:57in state prison
35:57for other crimes.
35:59He gave conflicting statements
36:01as to what transpired
36:03that night with Kathy Horn.
36:06At that point,
36:07I talked to him
36:08about Nancy Green's disappearance,
36:10and he admitted
36:11that they were friends,
36:12but he had no idea
36:14what happened to her.
36:16It was clear
36:17that I wasn't getting
36:18any further.
36:20After we had the witness
36:21that gave us enough
36:23to push forward
36:24with this case,
36:25we did numerous interviews
36:26with people
36:27that knew David Zinke.
36:29One woman,
36:30Patricia Kohler,
36:31said that shortly
36:32after Kathy disappeared,
36:34David appeared
36:35at her house.
36:36He had cuts on his hand
36:38that she helped him
36:38clean up and bandage,
36:40and he also had wanted
36:42to wash all his clothes
36:44and tried to clean out
36:46the van.
36:47At that point,
36:48we obtained a warrant
36:49to search David Zinke's van.
36:51Once again,
36:52five years later,
36:53which was parked
36:54at his parents'
36:55business place,
36:56we were looking
36:57for biological evidence.
36:59The crime lab
37:00didn't find that,
37:01but they did find
37:02a notebook at this time,
37:05and some of the writings
37:07talked about
37:07statutory rape,
37:09rape and criminal
37:10sexual conduct.
37:13Nancy's still missing,
37:15but we had Kathy's remains.
37:17At this point,
37:18with all the evidence
37:19and circumstances
37:20put together,
37:22David Zinke
37:23is now
37:24the prime suspect
37:26in the murder
37:27of Kathy Horn.
37:44In February of 2001,
37:47we had collected
37:48enough evidence
37:48to charge David Zinke
37:50with the murder
37:51of Kathy Horn.
37:58We obtained a warrant,
38:00ridded him
38:01out of state prison.
38:02He denied
38:03having any involvement
38:05with her death,
38:05but we transported him
38:07back to Otsego County
38:08to be arraigned.
38:10In November 2001,
38:13David Zinke's trial
38:14started,
38:15and the prosecutors
38:16presented to the jury
38:17all the circumstances
38:18that led to Kathy's murder.
38:34At the coffee house,
38:35David Zinke
38:36is asked to drive
38:38four people,
38:39including Kathy Horn,
38:40back to Mancelona
38:41in Traverse City.
38:44David and the group
38:45take the back roads
38:46with David at the helm,
38:48drinking,
38:49smoking marijuana.
38:50He was in his 30s.
38:52These were teenagers.
38:56When they got to Mancelona,
38:58David drops off
38:59Tom Jackson,
39:00Laurie Smith,
39:01and Scott Bly.
39:03The three of them
39:04watch the van
39:05disappear out of sight
39:06on its way
39:07to Traverse City.
39:09And now David
39:10had Kathy alone
39:11in the vehicle.
39:16At some point,
39:17he tries to push himself
39:19on her.
39:21But Kathy Horn
39:23carried a pocket knife.
39:26I believe she tried
39:28to fight him off
39:29from a sexual assault
39:31and cut him.
39:34And he lost it.
39:36And he killed her.
39:47He tried to bury
39:48the body
39:49up by Huffman Lake.
39:51But a man
39:52with his wife
39:52drove by
39:53and saw what they saw.
39:55David had to change
39:56his plans
39:57and left the clothing
39:58there.
40:03And took Kathy's body
40:05five miles down the road.
40:10secreted her
40:11under the pile
40:11of brush
40:12and covered her
40:12with a blanket.
40:14And that's where
40:16David Zinke
40:16left 16-year-old
40:18Kathy Horn's body
40:19buried in the woods.
40:25On November 30, 2001,
40:28the jury adjourned.
40:29And within a couple
40:30of hours,
40:30they found David Zinke
40:32guilty of second-degree
40:33murder.
40:34and he was sentenced
40:3635 to 52 years.
40:40For Janice,
40:41for her family,
40:42I was glad
40:43that he was convicted.
40:47One man's
40:48predator instincts
40:50took my heart
40:51along with my daughter.
40:52He stole
40:54everything from me.
40:58It was a relief
40:59to get him off the street.
41:00I hope he rots.
41:04David Zinke
41:05wouldn't admit
41:05to the murder
41:06of Nancy Green.
41:08At the time
41:09that he was sentenced,
41:10her body
41:11had not been found.
41:13Ultimately,
41:14I believe that
41:15David Zinke
41:16was a sexual predator
41:19and a serial killer.
41:22I believe he killed
41:23both Kathy Horn
41:24and Nancy Green.
41:27I thought that
41:28he would have
41:29continued on.
41:30He's evil
41:31and he's where he belongs
41:32and the public's
41:33safer for it.
41:35Quite frankly,
41:36if I'm still alive
41:37when his parole comes up,
41:38I'll go down there
41:39and try and take
41:40that away from him.
41:45I'll remember Kathy
41:47as a loving spirit
41:49and with a bright personality.
41:53She was beautiful.
41:56A beautiful heart.
42:01There's not a day
42:02goes by
42:02that I don't miss her
42:04or picture her smile
42:05or hear her laughter.
42:09That will never,
42:10ever go away.
42:12Miss you, Kathy.
42:14Love you.
42:16Love you.
42:45Love you.
42:45Love you.
42:45Love you.
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