Black Friday: The Mysterious Thanksgiving Murder of Mandy Stavik - PART ONE

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In 1989, Mandy Stavik came home from college to her tiny hometown of Acme, Washington (population 225) for Thanksgiving break. She enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with her family and her roommate, Yoko. The next day, Black Friday she was raped and murdered and her body was dumped in the river. The case was cold for 30 years, until the Summer of 2019 - when two women from Acme happened to take there kids to they waterpark. The moms had both gone to the same high school as Mandy. They were chatting about the unsolved murder, when they realized that they had both had unsettling experiences with the same Acme man, around the time of Mandy's murder. He had to be the killer. The mom's tell the Sherriff the man's name - and Mandy's long-cold murder rockets toward a conviction. Find out how on the thrilling conclusion of, "Black Friday: The Mysterious Thanksgiving Murder of Mandy Stavik!
Sources:
https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/801562.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mandy-stavik-case-how-two-moms-chatting-at-a-water-park-helped-crack-thanksgiving-cold-case-murder/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/100-volunteered-bakery-worker-dna-crack-30-year/story?id=65537828
https://www.criminalelement.com/thanksgivingamericas-deadliest-holiday/
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