Shownotes Transcript
So, if you feel comfortable, I'm ready to start recording. Okay, I'm ready. This is Karen Falaska. When I first met her, she told me a story. A story about the last time she saw her older sister, Denise. I was just a starry-eyed 13-year-old. Everything Denise did was just amazing to me. And I remember that night very, very clearly. It was a hot summer night back in 1969.
Karen was 13 and Denise was 15. They left home together to catch a bus. We got to the corner and she told me she had to go do something. She said, "Don't follow me." And I said, "Please stay with me." Denise walked off into the night and that's when Karen saw a car approaching and she noticed the driver staring at her.
He was like the devil himself. He scared me. I saw him and I stepped forward and I made an aggressive move to get him away from me. And I always wondered if I just sent him straight to Denise.
The police tried to solve Denise's murder, but that investigation went nowhere.
For almost 50 years, Karen Falasca searched for the man who murdered her sister. And then she got a little help from one of the least likely people I could ever imagine getting involved in a murder investigation: me.
Together, we talked to everyone who was involved with her sister's case. We knew we had a sexual predator, a serial killer that was out there almost on a daily basis. We learned everything we possibly could about the night Denise was killed. Oh my God! And eventually, we even talked to the man who killed her. I'm the only one that knew exactly what happened.
You hear there's no such thing as the perfect murder. Well, that's not true. Because I had a lot of perfect murders. From Truth Media and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Denise Didn't Come Home. Coming October 1st to The Binge. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.