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[Music] crime [Music] okay 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 asth Louise dukot friends and family called her she was a third grader at barington
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 C 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 Hood
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 little cinii was
intercepted by that evil element somewhere along the very short walk from barington elementary school and her home
which was just blocks away the distance was less than a mile a 20-minute walk this is a walk that Cy 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 4 hours C was first
missing and then she was gone forever according to the Ohio attorney general Dave Yos
website on June 3rd 1980 at 4:34 p.m. the cenith dukot was reported missing by her parents after she did not arrive
home from school the victim's parents indicated the cini walked home from school and would usually arrive home at
400 p.m. after an extensive search C's body was discovered in a drainage ditch at
the corner of Riverside Drive in walam Road Which is less than one block from her residence at about 7:30 p.m. 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 her four older siblings
and her mom and her dad she was literally just a 2minute walk from her home when she was cornered
and grabbed snatched off of the street and 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 and mourning
carry on without this bright little girl Upper Arlington did carry on but so many have not forgotten ceni and what
happened to her it's been over 40 years and the still strong still proud community
where se he 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 when evil came to
town or did it you see there is a lot of evidence in C'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 cinii 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 and the dukot 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 CI 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 CI was at the corner of Waltham and Malin so it's important to remember that se 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 C's classmates and memory of wrote The Following acronym for and about CI but in her proper name the
cenith this is from Mrs seber's third grade class at barington elementary school
a cenith duot a friendly third grader she always had a sunny smile her eyes glimmered and sparkled like
stars nice considerate honest polite and aware of other people's feelings the class has happy thoughts of
her she will always be remembered in August of 1980 a Cena's father Alexander was interviewed by the
UA news I believe this quote clearly showcases the strength the resolve and the compassion of the dukot 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
way we don't wish to killer 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 dukot August 6th 1980 the ducats were and remain UA and UA
strong this is true crime garage and this is the still unsolved murder case of a cenith cinii
[Music] ducat 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 aith
duot ath ducot was born July 24th 1971 and on our day in question she was 8 years old she went by the nickname
ceni and later that day when her parents would report her missing she was listed
as 4 5 1/2 in tall weighing about 68 lb she had brown hair and brown eyes and she was in the third grade at barington
elementary school which was located on barington Road in Upper Arlington which is a suburb of Columbus Ohio our day in
question is June 3rd 1980 this is a tues and this would be a bright and sunny Tuesday on this day asith left school at
310 p.m. this is 10 minutes later than her usual dismissal time CI 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 20 minutes to
make it from the door of her school to the front door of the dukot 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 p.m. on that day now what we do have here Captain is that we have a situation
where Mom gets worried because C usually arrives home every day at the same time
and when her daughter her youngest child is not there seeny she starts to get a little nervous and this is going to be
followed by sending out the other kids of the duot family to go out on their bicycles and walk the streets and ride
ride their bikes to look for their little sister it's also going to be followed with Mrs dukot 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 that c was probably traveling by herself
walking home alone that day from school again this 10-minute attention 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 C 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 Ci will be walking home now 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 duats lived and this this barington Elementary School it's less than a nth 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 CI 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 p.m. 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 CI 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 4 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 ceni 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 after the missing person's report is
filed with the Upper Arlington Police Department at 4:34 p.m. on that same day so we got a lot of people in a small
area looking for this little girl and yet we have 4 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 in
walam 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 1,500 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 C'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 4 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 SE 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 lbs or as many as 25 pounds most of the information that I've reviewed over the years suggests
that this is a 20 to 25lb 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 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 CI was killed and eyewitnesses on this other
attack that may or may not be related however what we do know is at the time of C'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 C's attack or at least
in the area of where CI 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 1 month earlier
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Big Time detective Ed Ty was one of the lead investigators in Cena'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 4 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 Culver this is a timeline put together by detective Ed
time and it starts roughly at 300 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 times timeline we
have 3:10 p.m. and it's stated here that the victim asena ducot 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 300 p.m. as we've
already discussed at 3:10 p.m. we have a lady that is driving home she returns to
her home on walam road walam 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
p.m. she pulls into her driveway on walam 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 8 city blocks west of
the barington elementary school so very near C school at approximately 3:15 to 3:20
p.m. a classmate of C sees her walking observes her walking westbound on Waltham Road Crossing Arlington Avenue
now at 3:15 p.m. this is just 5 minutes after the lady that lived on walam 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 CIS see her walking West on wam at Coventry and barington around the 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 at approximately 3:20 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 that says at approximately 3:20 p.m. while driving
westbound on walam road and at malver Road he observed a male white with dark glasses carrying a limm girl into the
yard of and then the name is redacted off of Melbourne Road he also saw a red bicycle lying along the curb in the
south side of Waltham and malver road so this is interesting because later of course we know that CI 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 age riding
Westbound at gulford 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 male at 3:25 we have a similar report of another individual
that lives on tree road that says that they observed a male in his 20s 6ot tallish 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 can 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 3:00 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 tont she's not saying that she saw or witnessed this on Tremont Road she's saying that
she witnessed this near walam road on the in the bicycle was on the south side of walam 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 Village is very near where cini dukat's body was later found
she says that she crossed the covert on her way and observed a male white standing on the south side of the creek
at approximately 100 yard east of her she said that there was something red and blue cloth likee on the ground in
front of him this occurred between 3:25 p.m. 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 CI dukat's body will later be found I've walked and crossed this Culver 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 cul she says between 3:25 p.m. and 4:20 p.m. whatever time
she cross that cul CI 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 350 p.m. we have another woman who returns to the Culver
after voting and decides to pick up a rock from the creek that she's going to take home and use as a paper weight The
Rock came from the location where the body is later discovered again this person gives us a different window 340
to 350 p.m. 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 that at 3:25 to 3:40 p.m.
CI is not located she's not in that Culver at that time so our window for those 4 hours is start 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
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 paper weight 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 why 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 paper weight 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 ceni was placed in that Culver 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 CI in that CT 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 Culver 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
p.m. is when Mr dukot left work and he walked home his normal route would make him cross that Culver 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 6 6:00
p.m. when we have a woman who lives on Waltham Road she walk across the Culver on her way to
vote again does not see C in the Culver we're now up to 6:00 her body's going to
be found before 7:30 p.m. I think one of the things that makes cases more difficult like in the 80s is that not
everybody has a clock on them where 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 cul 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 cross the Culver 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 warley along with two other
individuals Remember by this point in the evening we have neighbors friends neighborhood kids out looking
for C plus we have the police actively looking for C at this time so at 7:26 p.m. we have a police officer along with
two adults from the neighborhood the three of them together sadly discover the body of a Cena dukot
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 4 in of running water with a large Rock 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 Deli or west Memphis 3 where the the whole Community is searching for a missing
child or missing children and then 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 and such 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 3:00 hour we
have two schools in this neighborhood that are letting out in that 3:00 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 3 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 cul and did not see a
Cena duot 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 8 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 the citizens saying hey yeah I 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 6' 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 that asith 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 C's route that she took home that that day I have discussed this
with several people and confirmed this with people that knew ceni and it was explained to me as such that CI 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 while 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
twist C'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 dog 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 the 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 cini 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 CT 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 parent
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 smoking a joint and somebody had spray painted Frankenstein's cave inside the tunnel on
one of the walls the tunnel wall 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 C'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 4-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 p.m.
there was also a brief description in The Columbus Dispatch about her autopsy yes according to the June 10th 1980
Columbus Dispatch patch skull brain injury killed dukot 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 8-year-old asena ducot died of skull fractures and brain contusions
inflicted when she was struck on the head with a 20 lb 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 motorist on Waltham Road near where the body was found they HED 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 believe that dukat's killer was the same person involved in the attack of another school girl on May 7th police
describe the man as white between the ages of 16 and 20 years old with a Mediterranean look the killer was riding
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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 (http://www.longwalkhomeua.com/)

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Brief Summary

The episode details the unsolved murder of 8-year-old Ceni Dukat in 1980, discussing eyewitness accounts and investigation findings.

Key points

Community's Heartbreak. The Upper Arlington community was devastated by the loss of a young girl.
The Disappearance of Ceni Dukot. On June 3, 1980, Ceni Dukot went missing after school, leading to a tragic discovery.
The Unsolved Case. The murder of Ceni Dukot remains unsolved, raising questions about safety and evil in the community.
Detective Ed Ty's Timeline. Detective Ed Ty provides a timeline of events leading to the discovery of C's body.
Eyewitness Accounts. Multiple eyewitnesses report seeing a suspicious man around the time of C's disappearance.
Discovery of C's Body. C's body is discovered in a culvert, raising questions about the timeline of events.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Evil was already there, always lurking.

Discussion about the neighborhood's safety before the tragedy.

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