Who Killed Katie? | The Case That Left Me Completely Unsettled
6/2/20261 hr 10 min
A 24-year-old bartender leaves work to meet up with members of one of America’s most notorious outlaw motorcycle gangs… and is never seen alive again. What begins as a missing persons case quickly spirals into a horrifying investigation filled with secret clubhouses, alleged coverups, hidden relationships, and a murder trial that shocked Illinois. Prosecutors say Katie Kearns was brutally killed and her body was hidden with the help of fellow gang members, but the defense claimed something even more unbelievable…
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 1· Soundbite0:00
[suspenseful music] Family and friends are concerned about a suburban woman who has not been seen since last weekend.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:06
Her family filed a missing persons report yesterday after she disappeared early Monday morning.
Kevin Kearns· Soundbite0:13
I don't know what to think. I just keep waiting for the phone call.
Annie Elise· Host0:20
What kind of cruel monster are you that you could have done this to someone so sweet and so innocent?
Kevin Kearns· Soundbite0:26
She was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful girl, and something like that should've never happened, ever.
Annie Elise· Host0:34
In the true crime world, it's pretty rare to come across a case that you haven't heard before, especially when a case has so many different intricate layers to it. And I have to say, the case that we're talking about today, it is one of those cases. It is a wild ride and a lot to take in. Here's where it starts, and let me just kind of s- give you the sneak preview of this. At the end of her shift, Katie Kearns did something that she didn't normally do. Instead of going straight home, she made a last-minute decision to meet up with a couple of people that she had just been serving at the bar that she worked at. Now, at the time, it didn't seem like a big deal. It felt like one of those, you know, small, harmless choices that you make at the end of a long night, long shift, but that decision, it would end up being the last confirmed movement that anyone could trace. Because the place that Katie went after work that night, it wasn't just somewhere new.