The Mystery of Tina Risico
5/11/202640 min
He was killing every few days — then he took Tina, and suddenly stopped. Christopher Wilder had already abducted nine women and murdered most of them in a six-week rampage across America. He was the FBI's most wanted man. Every woman he took, he raped, tortured and then quickly killed them. But when he abducted 16-year-old Tina Risico from an LA shopping mall, something changed. The killing stopped. For nine days, he kept her alive — and for 40 years, no one has fully explained why. Until now.
This is the story of the girl who was allowed to walk away when none of the others were — and the question at its heart is one every woman will ask: what did Tina do differently to survive? She tells us in her own words.
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Credits:
Hosts
Andy Byrne
Mark Llewellyn
Audio Production
Sam Blacker - The Podcast Butler
Resources
The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne - courtesy of Penguin Random House
The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror - Hulu
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[suspenseful music] Catching Evil.
Speaker 20:04
[typewriter typing] April 4, 1984. Christopher Wilder has been on the run for 20 days and traveled 3,000 miles. The race car-driving serial killer has sped across America, kidnapping and killing in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nevada. Seven women taken, six murdered, and still Wilder wants more. [police radio chatter] [car zooming] But the FBI has it wrong. San Francisco is not his next target. Instead, evil has found its way to the City of Angels.
Mark Llewellyn· Host0:50
[car zooming] So now we're in LA, just as Wilder was 40 years ago. He's come out of Las Vegas. He's, he's, he's had his last kill. Now he's in LA. What's, what's in his head? Where's he intending to go?
Andy Byrne· Host1:03
Well, I can believe this one because he told his business partner, Zeke, that he was heading for Mexico. Your credit cards, how did he end up with your credit cards?
Mark Llewellyn· Host1:12
I gave them to him.
Andy Byrne· Host1:13
You gave it to him.
Mark Llewellyn· Host1:13
A Texaco credit card, and I had a Visa card.
Andy Byrne· Host1:16
That's right, yeah. Right. That's right.
Mark Llewellyn· Host1:18
That way he wouldn't get... They wouldn't know on his way to Mexico. So you think maybe he had in mind, this is what we're learning, that this was his escape route, that he was now going to get across the border and make a new