Asenath Dukat /// Part 1 /// 583 | Forensic Files

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a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] thank you [Music] as schools all over Ohio and across this
great nation prepare to close down for the summer and Kids gear up for the much needed summer break it is this time of
year every year that many remember and think about little acineth Luis ducat friends and family called her ceni
she was a third grader at Barrington Elementary in the Columbus Ohio suburb of Upper Arlington
the city of Upper Arlington and the people who live there are some of the best that Columbus has to offer
this is an affluent area families stay here for generations to live in this tight-knit community to
raise their children up in a safe peaceful area and thrive in nearby Columbus many Ohio State graduates stay or plant
their Roots here in the city of Upper Arlington cine school and home were located in
what was thought to be a very safe sleepy upper-class neighborhood but unfortunately there was something
bad bubbling up there was something evil lurking In This Very neighborhood several girls reported to their parents
that they didn't always feel safe walking in the neighborhood more than one girl said that she felt
like she had been followed and not just on one occasion it was difficult to understand what was
happening the neighborhood as everyone thought was still the same old sleepy upper-class
neighborhood and maybe these were just the imagined fears of children however that something bad that was bubbling up
to the surface boiled over on June 3rd 1980 just days before the end of the school year
this is when littlecini was intercepted by that evil element somewhere along the
very short walk from Barrington Elementary School and her home which was just blocks away
[Music] the distance was less than a mile a 20-minute walk this is a walk that ceney made many
times and one that was even shorter for her as kids know all of the shortcuts and cut
throughs but on that bright and sunny day something got her in the short window of just four hours
sini was first missing and then she was gone forever [Music] according to the Ohio attorney general
Dave Yost website on June 3rd 1980 at 4 34 pm Messina ducat was reported missing by her parents
after she did not arrive home from school the victim's parents indicated the ceni
walked home from school and would usually arrive home at 4 pm after an extensive search sini's body
was discovered in a drainage ditch at the corner of Riverside Drive and Waltham Road
Which is less than one block from her residence at about 7 30 PM the same evening
the investigation revealed that her death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head and manual strangulation
investigators believe that the victim was abducted and murdered at a location other than where she was found
the town was devastated the neighborhood was terrified Upper Arlington lost one of their own
a young outgoing intelligent little girl was attacked in an area where she likely felt the safest
this was her neighborhood where she lived with their four older siblings and her mom and her dad
she was literally just a two-minute walk from her home when she was cornered and
grabbed snatched off of the street killed just a short time later who would do such a Despicable and
monstrous Act how could this happen here and how could an entire community in mourning carry on without this bright
little girl Upper Arlington did carry on but so many have not forgotten sini and
what happened to her it's been over 40 years and the still strong still proud Community Rossini
lived still remember the talkative energetic little girl who did not make it home that one day
that one day when a neighborhood was forever changed and permanently scarred that one day
evil came to town or did it you see there is a lot of evidence in sini's case to suggest evil did not come
to town that evil was already there always there lurking in the streets of this sleepy upper class neighborhood
there's good reason to believe that sini may have even known her killer or one of
the persons responsible the killer or killers may have known that there was only one
way to keep this girl quiet after she was taken and assaulted but the community has refused to keep
quiet about what happened what was taken from them what was stolen away from the city in the ducat family
the members of this community are UA and they are UA strong as strong as a bear with a heart of gold
the kids in this neighborhood never forgot sini some to this very day wish that they
would have been walking with the little girl on June 3rd and if so maybe this would not have
happened but unfortunately from where I stand and the way things look to me a tragedy like this was simply going to
happen that bad element was on the rise and that evil was going to Bubble Up and boil over at some point
and it did that day when ceney was at the corner of Waltham and Malvern so it's important to remember the cenee
in her final minutes while she was scared and surrounded she was actually in some not so easily
explained way protecting another little girl probably even one of her friends because this evil did not come to town
it was always there right there in that sleepy upper class neighborhood before the end of the school year sini's
classmates in memory of wrote The Following acronym for and about cini but in her proper name the zenith
this is from Mrs subbert's third grade class at Barrington Elementary School [Music]
a scene at ducat friendly third grader she always had a sunny smile her eyes glimmered
sparkled like stars nice considerate honest polite and aware of other people's feelings
the class as happy thoughts of her she will always be remembered [Music] in August of 1980
Athena's father Alexander was interviewed by the UA news I believe this quote clearly showcases
the strength the resolve and the compassion of the ducat family quote we have suffered a great loss
but it's not a reoccurring one she's gone but the community may have to go through
this again this case doesn't have to be solved for our benefit the Lord will deal with this fellow in
his own way we don't wish to kill her any vengeance sometimes we pray for his soul that he
may be saved but we are concerned about the safety of others he may try to wreak this tragedy on
someone else I can't picture a person who is capable of rape and murder living a normal life
I am sure we will hear from him in one way or another Alexander ducat August 6 1980.
the ducats were and remained UA and UA strong this is true crime garage and this is the still unsolved murder
case of a Zenith cenee ducat [Music] this is a case that we have wanted to cover for a while now a couple years in
fact and it's only been covered a little bit and here we are today Captain covering it for the very first time and
there have been some speed bumps along the way that got in the way of us covering this at an earlier date and we
will discuss those at a later time in these episodes but we are here today to talk about the unsolved murder of
aceneth ducat acina ducat was born July 24th 1971. and on our day in question she was
eight years old she went by the nickname Seany and later that day when her parents would report
her missing she was listed as four foot five and a half inches tall weighing about 68 pounds she had brown hair and
brown eyes and she was in the third grade at Barrington Elementary School which was located on Barrington Road in
Upper Arlington which is a suburb of Columbus Ohio our day in question is June 3rd 1980. this is a Tuesday and
this would be a bright and sunny Tuesday on this day aceneth left school at 3 10
p.m this is 10 minutes later than her usual dismissal time cini and her classmates had to serve a 10-minute
detention for Rowdy Behavior disrupting the class this delay caused her to miss the crowd that she would have regularly
walked home with so typically she's walking home less than a mile this walk would take her less than than 20 minutes
so make it from the door of her school to the front door of the ducat Family Home and on this day she's going to be
walking alone because those other friends from other classrooms have left and already made the Trek from the
school to their homes there were several eyewitnesses that saw her walking home that day it's believed that she
disappeared sometime between 3 20 and 4 00 p.m on that day now what we do have here Captain is that we have a situation
where Mom gets worried because cini usually arrives home every day at the same time and when her daughter her
youngest child is not there see me she starts to get a little nervous and this is going to be followed by
sending out the other kids of the ducat family to go out on their bicycles and walk the streets and ride their bikes to
look for their little sister it's also going to be followed with Mrs ducock calling the school to ask where her
daughter was and calling a couple of her friends parents I imagine this would be
friends that she would typically walk home with and she's going to find out about this 10-minute detention and
realize very quickly the sceny was probably traveling by herself walking home alone that day from school again
this 10-minute detention didn't come about until the day of on June 3rd 1980. she's also going to call her husband
Alex or Alexander and let him know that their daughter did not come home from school yet Alex Works within walking
distance of the family's home he will actually end up leaving work a few minutes early on this day to help go
look for little cine so I'm not that clear on the details but it was either the whole class that got a detention or
a group of kids because they were talking too much in class but kind of odd that they would be handed out a
10-minute detention for that day normally you'd have to serve your detention on another day yeah I'm
guessing a couple things here Captain one it makes sense to me it's the end of the school year kids get a little Rowdy
they probably weren't listening to the teacher teacher gets upset and has to continually warn the kids and then
decides you know what I've got to make a example here and let them know that they
can't just do whatever they want so here's a 10 minute detention probably served by the whole class we got to keep
it short though I'm guessing because some of those kids are going to be riding buses home some of these kids as
we said like cini will be walking home I've heard it reported that like 1980 was something different than the setup
that we have today that many more kids walked home back then if you looked up where the ducats lived and this
Barrington Elementary School it's less than a point ninth of a mile I believe it's typical for kids that live in the
same neighborhood as the school to commonly walk to school so I don't believe that it's any different 1980
than it would be today of the amount of kids that were walking to and from school
when I was growing up Captain when you were growing up if our school was in the same neighborhood you just walked
because the buses didn't travel that short distance or mom and dad would drop you off at the school well Colonel can
you give us a general overview of this case and then we can come back through and do a very detailed account of the
events yes so as we said ceney was walking home from school it's believed that she was last seen within just
blocks of her home that day her body was eventually found at approximately 7 30 PM so let's note those times here before
we get to that very detailed timeline of June 3rd we have people that say that they have seen sini around 3 20 p.m
maybe even a few minutes after that so we believe that she obviously went missing during some point after that 320
325 marker on that day her body is found at approximately 7 30 p.m that day so what we're really working with here
roughly is a window of about four hours where we have a lot of question marks and a lot of blanks to fill in and I
think we will be able to do that with some of this timeline that we will later present but her body was found this is
after an extensive search remember we've already said brothers and sisters are out looking for cini we have
neighborhood kids looking for her mom and dad are out looking for her mom's driving around the neighborhood looking
for her this is followed by an official search that is going to start after the missing persons report is filed with the
Upper Arlington Police Department at 4 34 pm on that same day so we got a lot of people in a small area looking for
this little girl and yet we have four hours where we have to fill in and figure out
what was going on during that time frame her body was found at the mouth of a culvert located at the corner of
Riverside Drive and Waltham Road so to give a very basic description of this area what we have here Captain is
Riverside Drive is a very busy road it was back in 1980 it still is to this day in fact if you look up the population
for Upper Arlington the population is roughly the same today as what it was back in 1980. it's only about 1500
people more so traffic and things like that are not significantly different however the lay of the land is
significantly different especially right here on this corner this area has been landscaped and renovated
several times since 1980. now think of your neighborhood growing up everybody out there in listener land and you know
the busy road that is just outside of your neighborhood that Mom and Dad say hey wherever you go you can go ride your
bikes you can go play with your friends but you do not go near that road you do not go across that road well this would
be that Road Riverside Drive very busy Road Waltham Road is right off of Riverside and it's one of the main
vessels through this neighborhood through sini's neighborhood her body is eventually found near this intersection
of Waltham and Riverside Drive the interesting thing about that to me Captain is this is very close to her
home it's less than two minute walk from her front door to where her body was ultimately found yeah my parents would
always say don't play by that busy intersection but stop hanging out with that kid that thinks he's a colonel too
young to be a colonel so unfortunately her body is found four hours later and this is about a block from her home and
I encourage everyone to look this up on a map because it will shock you how close she was found to her home
and it was determined that she was sexually assaulted and her death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head
and manual strangulation the murder weapon I've actually seen several different weights for this murder weapon over the
years I've see she was killed with a rock someone took a rock and hit her in the
head with it and I've seen this rock to have weigh as little as 12 pounds or as many as 25 pounds
most of the information that I've reviewed over the years suggests that this is a 20 to 25 pound Rock so this is
a pretty big rock now the area that she's found there's a lot of rocks there and this rock was recovered it was still
at the murder scene and that's something that's key to remember here too murder scene she was killed where she was found
so what you're saying is law enforcement believes a perpetrator or multiple perpetrators took her assaulted her
somewhere transport her alive to this location and then the murder took place at that location where she was found yes
that is correct and here's the thing though I think that we're going to be able to lay this out in a very easy to
understand way easy to grasp everything that we have seen over the years in her case I don't think that things were so
clear for law enforcement at the time when they were investigating this case we have the the benefit of 42 years of
looking at this case and looking at the different information that have come up in 42 years they did not one thing that
police revealed was that there had been a previous and a very similar attack in that similar area on May 7th so less
than a month earlier a similar type of victim and a very similar type abduction took place in that same neighborhood now
this would be news to some of the people in the neighborhood but not to everyone
in that neighborhood were there any eyewitnesses to this previous situation before the murder yes there were so we
have the Survivor of the attack and then we also have a potential eyewitness in that situation the thing here Captain is
eyewitnesses are key in this case eyewitnesses for the day that sini was killed and eyewitnesses on this other
attack fact that may or may not be related however what we do know is at the time of sini's murder that police
absolutely did think that it was highly likely that the two were in fact connected so much so that they are
releasing a sketch a composite sketch to the public of the individual that they believe may have been spotted in sini's
attack or at least in the area of where ceni was last seen and this is believed to be a similar
sketch a similar composite sketch to the earlier attack that took place in May again just less than one month earlier
[Music] foreign [Music] cheers mates cheers to you Captain make sure you slap that bass big time Big
Time detective Ed Tyne was one of the lead investigators in acina's murder case he put together some really
invaluable information on this case that I think still holds a lot of weight to this day and this is how we can get a
clearer picture of those four hours that went by from the time that she was last
seen to the time that her body was discovered at the mouth of that Culvert this is a timeline put together by
detective Ed Tyne and it starts roughly at 3 P.M and it's going to take us all the way up until about 7 30 p.m that
night now a lot of these names have been redacted and then on top of that these times are not exact most of them are
going to be approximate so I think it was key to give an overview of the general information of the case and what
is known of that day first before we start getting into the specifics because this could get a little
confusing without having that information prior at the start of detective tynes timeline we have 3 10 pm
and it's stated here that the victim is seen the ducat and the rest of her third
grade class was dismissed after they had been held over for 10 minutes for a class detention
normal dismissal time was 3 P.M as we've already discussed at 3 10 pm we have a lady that is driving home she returns to
her home on Waltham Road Waltham Road is not only part of the intersection where
her body was found near but this will be part of her route home back to her house
now this lady says that at about 3 10 pm she pulls into her driveway on Waltham Road and she observed an unknown male
white wearing blue jeans a white shirt and possible blue jean jacket walking out of the field
and this is a field that is located directly across from the intersection of Waltham and Hillside this location is
eight city blocks west of the Barrington Elementary School so very near sceny school at approximately 3 15 to 3 20 p.m
a classmate of sinis sees her walking observes her walking westbound on Waltham Road Crossing Arlington Avenue
now at 3 15 p.m this is just five minutes after the lady that lived on Waltham returned home she goes outside
to do some lawn work and notices that the man that she saw earlier is no longer there she does not see him at
this time we also have a second classmate of cini's see her walking West on Waltham at Coventry and Barrington
around this same time it's important to remember that any individual that's seen
at this time in this area could be a suspect we have a driver that reports that approximately 320 p.m I think this
time is probably a little early in the timeline but again we're going off of this eyewitness off of their report this
is at approximately 3 20 p.m while driving westbound on Waltham Road and at Malvern Road he observed a male white
with dark glasses carrying a limp girl into the yard of and then the name is redacted off of Malvern Road he also saw
a red bicycle lying along the curb and the south side of Waltham and Malvern Road so
this is interesting because later of course we know that sini is abducted and killed in this area this motorist at
this time does not believe what he is witnessing to be anything of importance until of course later that day at 7 30
when we find out the worst thing that a neighborhood could experience experience
he's saying simply that he saw the bike he saw a girl being Carried Away by a guy he made the assumption that she had
wrecked her bike was injured and this was either her brother or father tending to her and carrying her away so
what he believes that he sees is something very innocent something very normal however he's going to find out
hours later that something not innocent and not normal at all happened in this general area maybe at this same time and
we're going to have a lot more eyewitnesses to this male on a bicycle yeah at approximately 3 20 p.m we have
another witness who says that they observed a male white with dark hair approximately 18 to 21 years of age
riding westbound at goldford and Fairfax on a bicycle he was wearing a white shirt and dark
trousers this seems to match up with the previous descriptions we have by other eyewitnesses again we see the bicycle
and we see a similar outfit along with a similar age description for this unknown
mail at 3 25 we have a similar report of another individual that lives on Tremont Road that says
that they observed a male in his twenties six foot tall ish average build with brown hair white short sleeve shirt
dark pants running South and carrying a small child the witness goes on to say that she also
saw a red bicycle on the south side of Waltham in the bushes by the pine trees now could you imagine if you saw a
teenager or somebody in their early 20s carrying a child this is not going to look natural this is not going to look
like they're playing around at the same time though you got to keep in mind around this three o'clock hour we have
two schools in this neighborhood so you're going to see a lot of kids kind of out walking around or on bikes at
this time right the other thing too that we need to point out because that description that I gave is just a little
tricky there the witness lives on Tremont she's not saying that she saw or witnessed this on
Tremont Road she's saying that she witnessed this near Waltham Road on the and the bicycle was on the south side of
Waltham Road so this individual lives nearby but was driving in this general area where they witnessed this man or
young man carrying a small child we also need to point out that this Tuesday in 1980 was a primary election day
and we have two locations in this neighborhood that are voting locations so we have additional people that are
out and about on this day for the purpose of voting and we get our first witness eyewitness who says that on
their way to voting saw something that might be of interest to our case so this is a woman who lives on Riverside Drive
says that she walked to vote at First Community Village First Community Village is very near where cini ducat's
body was later found she says that she crossed the Culvert on her way and observed a male white standing on the
south side of the creek at approximately 100 yards east of her she said that there was something red
and blue cloth like on the ground in front of him this occurred between 3 25 pm and 4 20
p.m now another thing to note there as well I know that she's giving us a window of time that is approximately an
hour but this individual is crossing the same culvert where cine ducat's body will
later be found I've walked and crossed this Culvert several times I would find it incredibly
difficult to believe that anybody whether they were looking around or not would not have seen her lying there on
that day at that time so what this tells me is even though we don't know exactly
what time this woman is walking and crossing the Culvert she says between 3 25 pm and 4 20 P.M
whatever time she crossed that Culvert sini is not there she's not there at this time
and that's going to be key to our case now at approximately 340 to 3 50 P.M we have another woman who returns to the
Culvert after voting and decides to pick up a rock from the creek that she's going to take home and use as
a paperweight The Rock came from the location where the body is later discovered again this person gives us a
different window 340 to 350 pm so now we can say based off of these two eyewitness statements
that even if we go to the earliest parts of their timeline of their window that they provide for us
then at 325 to 3 40 PM cine is not located she's not in that Culvert at that time so our window for those four
hours is starting to shrink a little bit now if we were to take that out to the end of their Windows we're up to 4 20
p.m I mean it doesn't seem a little insane the day that they find this missing murdered girl
where there's a bunch of rocks at that somebody stopped to pick up a rock to use it for a paperweight it seems very
bizarre to me number one but number two I think that it it's one of those things
that come up in in question you know when when police interview you and you're telling them about your day they
want to know why you did everything Mark why the hell would you stop to pick up a
rock or why did you notice that she wasn't there what what proof do you have for that why were you looking around why
weren't you just minding your own business well I decided to stop and pick up a rock for a paperweight sounds weird
to me however I don't have this person's name as it's been redacted so I don't know if I should be questioning her
statement if she's just a regular Mrs citizen that I don't question her statement and I believe it to be true
and I'm really just trying to figure out when cenee was placed in that Culvert because that's a fact that we know for
certain that happened and we have the statement of police saying that she was killed there
so we're trying to shrink this window of time this four hours to a much smaller amount of time because we have all these
different people that are seen in the area walking about at this time one of those people that were seen is
responsible for this if not more than one that was seen and so we want to really narrow down who it could be that
placed cenee in that Culvert that day well here's something that's also pretty strange in this case Mr ducat like you
were stating earlier he works close enough to the family's home that he could walk home while he is going across
that that covert where she is found so if she was there at the time it's most likely that Mr ducat would have seen his
daughter yeah and we're going to be able to put a lot of people in this area where her body would eventually be found
that do not see her there they do not see her body lying in that culvert and that really shrinks the window here so
again he would have had to walk across this little bridge to get over this Culvert and I'm telling you there's no
way unless you got blinders on man on both sides of your head there's no way that you're not seeing her lying there
on the rocks at 4 40 PM is when Mr ducot left work and he walked home his normal route
would make him cross that Culvert right I don't have an exact time for when he was crossing that bridge that day but we
know it was after 4 40 p.m so our window is getting even smaller this is going to take us all the way up
to 555 to approximately six o'clock P.M when we have a woman who lives on Waltham Road she walk across the Culvert
on her way to vote again does not see cine in the Culvert we're now up to six o'clock her body's
going to be found before 7 30 PM I think one of the things that makes cases more difficult like in
the 80s is that not everybody has a clock on them we're now almost everybody carries a cell phone your cell phone has
some some kind of clock on it and also you have then time frames of well I saw this
happen and then this person text me so I know it was before that time where in the 80s if you're not carrying a pocket
watch or a wrist watch you probably have no reference of time so some of these people's time frames could be off by you
know 10 to 15 minutes give or take the other thing that we didn't have or wasn't so readily available back then
that we have today is this first Community Village where people are going to and from for voting purposes they
would have had today they got a bunch of cameras set up so they'd be able to go okay Mrs so and so says that she crossed
the Culvert to come here and vote and we have her walking through our doors at this time and Mr so-and-so says that he
left and then had to cross the Culvert to get back to his house well we have him leaving our doors at this time and
so we would be able to get more exact times these times to me are still incredibly important and it's important
to shrink this window we have another eyewitness this is two people actually that say between 6 15 and 6 30 p.m we
have a woman with her son her son is Young we know this because he's on a tricycle if he's if he's not young that
would be weird hey sounds awesome sauce to me but the two of them crossed the Culvert between 6 15 and 6 30 p.m this
again the same location where the body was later found now at 7 26 p.m officer Mike Worley along with two other
individuals Remember by this point in the evening we have neighbors friends neighborhood kids out looking for cine
plus we have the police actively looking for cine at this time so at 7 26 PM we have a police officer along with two
adults from the neighborhood the three of them together sadly discover the body of a scene at ducat
lying at the base of an open Culvert in a stream located on the north side of First Community Village and this is
directly from the police report the victim is lying in approximately four inches of running water with a large
Rock covering her head her head had been crushed by the large Limestone rock that
had been taken from the creek bed she was fully clothed although there were indications that her pants had been down
at one time and then pulled back up it was observed that the pants were unbuttoned and there was grass in her
undergarments well such a sad scene and we we see so many cases like Delphi or West Memphis Three where the the whole
Community is searching for a missing child or missing children and that they don't discover
the bodies until the next day this one within a couple hours they're discovering her body it's almost like
these killers or killer is almost not worried about even trying to conceal the body whatsoever correct and actually
what I think has happened here Captain is we run into a situation where things started going badly for the killer or
killers and now they're just making impulsive decisions based off of getting the hell out of the area as quickly as
they can again it's awfully confusing and such risky Behavior to see such a horrible act in such a a a crime take
place in an area that we can clearly see there's a lot of movement there's a lot
of people out and about for the purpose of voting this around the evening hours but again go back to the three o'clock
hour we have two schools in this neighborhood that are letting out in that three o'clock hour
so there's a lot of kids out and about during the time that she was abducted unless one were to think that she was
just hanging out and doing God knows what for three hours before something terrible happened to her and I don't
think anybody believes that at all I certainly don't believe it I think she was snatched on her way home from school
and then obviously based off of the timeline we just went through she had to be gone
for several hours before someone placed her in that Culvert because we have all these people that say they walked across
that Culvert and did not see a Cena ducat at any time well what's so sad too is that she would be more likely to talk
to a kid you know somebody in their late teens even early 20s when you're that age eight years old you're you're
viewing a even a 20 year old as one of you you know like oh that's just an older kid you don't necessarily with
kids and teenagers view them as dangerous and so they were able to lure her in and then then this assault takes
place and now they go well there's a good chance that she knew her attacker or attackers because
it seems like they're they thought the only the only way out of this is that we have to kill her so she can't identify
us well and the thing here is that goes back everything that you're saying goes back to all of these eyewitness accounts
right the other people in the area at the time that are spotted by these citizens saying hey yeah ice we have one
person saying I saw the victim walking home at this time in this location and we have other eyewitnesses saying I saw
a young male probably 20 years old of average build approximately six foot tall he's in the area at the same time we
have two people that say they believe they saw a similar looking man carrying a small child or a little girl
across the street around the same time the isseneth would have been abducted on her way home now I want to take this
opportunity to clear up a couple things here because I've seen it reported plenty of times this way that
there were some unusual deviations in sini's route that she took home that day I have discussed this with several
people and confirmed this with people that knew cini and it was explained to me as such that ceney had a preferred
route that she would take from her school to her home and there was a group of kids that she
would typically walk with well some of the other kids in the group had a different route that they preferred and
when the kids when the entire group was there they would take this other route it's a more straightforward route less
turns less twists cini's route might be a little quicker but for whatever reason it's been noted
by several of her friends that this was the route that she preferred now we do know that she was walking alone that day
and so she would have taken her preferred route now we go back to the idea of unusual deviations well why
would they believe that there were unusual deviations well we know the route that she ultimately took on the
day that she was abducted and killed because we have several things one we have the eyewitness statements of what
time and where she was and where she was walking at those times as well as they brought in a scent doll to track her
movements from the school and her route home that she took so I believe that the earlier portions
of her route that have those deviations are simply based off of a route that she
preferred and that was the route that she chose to take that day now the other deviations that are the later
part of her route those aren't deviations that she was making by choice in my opinion captain that is when she
started to get nervous she was being followed she did not like somebody that she's seeing in the area she felt uneasy
and maybe she diverted from her route to get away or to avoid someone or a scarier thought
at some point she's being chased by this individual well let's dive into some of
the details of this murder scene yes because the layout of where cenee is ultimately found is very important to
this case and figuring out who is responsible so her body is actually found near a
near the mouth of a culvert this Culvert runs under a service road and mind you if you look at pictures from 1980
compared to 2022 the layout of this land has changed a little bit over the years
it's been filled out a little more but the other place that is curious that is nearby this Culvert where her body is
found is a tunnel which the locals or at least the children of the neighborhood called
Frankenstein's cave now we mentioned earlier that your parents if you lived in this neighborhood would tell you do
not go to Riverside Drive you do not cross Riverside Drive walking or on your bike the road is just far too busy it's
too dangerous for people crossing on foot or on a bike but this Frankenstein's cave is a larger
tunnel that runs underneath that Riverside Drive now this would be another location that your parents would
likely tell you that you are not allowed to go to the other thing too as a child you may
not want to go there anyway because it's called Frankenstein's cave if there were
anybody to be hanging out there this would be the older kids the teenagers the uh maybe people were down there
drinking beer or smoking a joint and somebody had spray painted Frankenstein's cave inside the tunnel on
one of the walls the tunnel walls so this is how it kind of got its name other than that it's a little tricky to
figure out where the name came from but ultimately ceny's body is recovered at the mouth of this Culvert which is
underneath the service road runs underneath the service road that is near Frankenstein's cave that runs underneath
Riverside Drive again we had multiple witnesses that are traveling that are traversing this area this exact area
for that four hour time period of when she was gone so you have to believe based off of those Witnesses not seeing
her there where she's later found that she wasn't there until much later in the evening closer to the time that she was
discovered again the time that we have on record for the police is 7 26 PM there was also a brief description in
The Columbus Dispatch about her autopsy yes according to the June 10th 1980 Columbus Dispatch
skull brain injury killed Duke Girl autopsy shows is the headline a brief description of that article is as
follows in a Columbus Dispatch newspaper article published on the 10th a preliminary autopsy
reported that eight-year-old acina ducat died of skull fractures and brain contusions inflicted when she was struck
on the head with a 20-pound Shale type Rock the autopsy also showed that the third grader had been raped handprints
were left on both sides of her throat as her attacker choked her bruises were found beneath both eyes and on the left
side of the nose Upper Arlington police were to distribute pamphlets describing the murder suspect to motorists on
Waltham Road near where the body was found they hoped to find another witness in addition to the woman who is thought
to have seen the killer carrying the youngster into the retirement complex grounds police also believed that
ducat's killer was the same person involved in the attack of another schoolgirl on May 7th police described
the man as white between the ages of 16 and 20 years old with the Mediterranean look the killer was riding a red Schwinn
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This week we are taking a look at a local Cold Case. 3rd grader Asenath Dukat was abducted and murdered on a short walk home through her neighborhood in 1980. This all took place in a very safe neighborhood or so we thought. What was learned was that Asenath’s case was just one of several attempted abductions and assaults of similar victims. Now forty two years later, there is still no justice for this little girl and her family. A special thanks goes out to the good people of The Long Walk Home. This is a local project dedicated to Asenath, the Dukat family, the UAPD and the good people of Upper Arlington, Ohio. Their extensive and brilliant work on Asenath’s case has helped to keep this case alive and the investigation “active.” For a complete case review and study please visit them at www.LongWalkHomeUA.com

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Brief Summary

The episode details the unsolved murder of Acineth Ducat, abducted in 1980, discussing eyewitness accounts and investigation findings.

Key points

The Disappearance of Ceni Ducat. Ceni Ducat, a third grader, goes missing on a sunny day in June 1980.
Community Shocked by Tragedy. The murder of Ceni Ducat devastates the Upper Arlington community, changing it forever.
A Mother's Despair. Ceni's mother realizes her daughter is missing and begins searching frantically.
Detective Ed Tyne's Timeline. Detective Tyne outlines a crucial timeline of events surrounding the victim's disappearance.
Witness Accounts of Suspicious Activity. Multiple witnesses report seeing a man with a child around the time of the abduction.
Eyewitness Confusion. Witnesses struggle to recall exact times and details, complicating the investigation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Upper Arlington lost one of their own.

Reflecting on the impact of Ceni's murder on the community.

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