Kurt Sova
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Other than some scratches and bruises, the body showed no signs of obvious injury. One tennis shoe was found in a nearby pile of rocks. The other shoe was missing. It was the body of 17-year-old Kurt Sova. An autopsy revealed that Kurt had died about a day before he was found, but his parents reported him missing five days before that. Where was Kurt during that five days he was missing? How did he die, and where was he killed?

This is Forensic Tales, episode number 233, The Mysterious Death of Kurt Sova. ♪

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Now, let's get to this week's episode. Our case this week takes us to a small town in Ohio about five miles south of downtown Cleveland. Before October 1981, the city of Newburgh Heights wasn't known for anything special. But fast forward to today, that small Ohio town has been forever connected to the mysterious death of a local teenager. Was it an accident? Was it murder? Or something else?

Let's talk about it and see what, if any, forensic science can do to help us figure out what really happened to Kurt over four decades ago. Kurt Eugene Sova was a 17-year-old high school junior when he disappeared after a Halloween party in 1981 and turned up dead five days later.

But before all of that, Kurt was just your typical high school kid. He was a good student who got decent grades, kept a small group of friends, and was close to his family. Kurt was the youngest of four boys and the closest to his parents, Ken and Dorothy. All four Sova boys shared the same bedroom as kids, which meant they usually fought over who got to sleep on the top bunk, or worse, who had to sleep on the bottom bunk.

which was usually whoever got into the bedroom last at night, and that was typically Kurt because he was the smallest of them. Kurt was also the comedian of the bunch. His parents said that as a kid, he loved teasing and pushing people's buttons just to get them to laugh. They also called him Mouse when he was little because he would make squeaking sounds that sounded just like a mouse and naturally made people laugh.

In an article for CrimeCon, Kurt's brother Kevin recalls how the family lived in a very diverse neighborhood before moving to Newburgh Heights. Like in other cities at the time, a lot of people had moved out to the suburbs, and the lower-income people stayed behind. So this meant that racial tensions were pretty high in the neighborhood. And for Kurt and his three brothers, this meant they had to run fast and fight or otherwise they'd get beaten up.

Kevin told CrimeCon that while living there, the boys really learned early on how to take care of themselves as well as each other. They, of course, protected Kurt the most because he was the youngest of the group. If another kid in the neighborhood tried to mess with him, Kevin and the others would always jump in and protect him. Kevin's parents, Ken and Dorothy, tried to sell the house and move out of the neighborhood several times, but they were never able to until they were eventually burned out.

While visiting their grandparents, someone broke in and set the place on fire. After that, the Sova family moved out into the town where Ken and Dorothy would spend the rest of their lives. It's also the town where Kurt would eventually disappear from. Although the family lived in a much safer neighborhood by the time Kurt became a teenager, he was never allowed to venture out much and only really hung out with two friends, John Miller and Danny Washington.

The three boys became known as the Three Musketeers because they were always doing things together. They would sometimes try to hang out with Kurt's three older brothers, but like most older kids, they usually didn't want the younger boys tagging along. Kurt was never the kind of kid to get into trouble either at school or with the police, which makes what happened to him even stranger. Fast forward to a couple of days before Halloween in 1981.

Kurt decided to go to a party that Friday night. Parties weren't really something that he did, but at 17 years old, he was starting to do things on his own, just like his brothers were. According to Kurt's older brother Kevin, Kurt would sometimes have a beer with his older brothers or with their friends and maybe smoke a joint. But that really wasn't his thing. He wasn't a big drinker and he rarely smoked.

He would much rather do things outdoors with two of his best friends, Danny and John. But on this particular night, Kurt did go to the party. The party was at an apartment only about a block away from his parents' house, and he went there with his friend Sam. But when Kurt didn't come home later that night, his mom Dorothy knew that something had to be wrong. Kurt usually came home between 10 and 11 p.m. at the latest,

He only stayed out later if his parents knew where he was. He was just that type of kid. So when Kurt wasn't home by Saturday morning, his parents began calling around to his friends to see if they knew where he was. They first called Danny and John, his two closest friends. If anyone knew where Kurt was, they probably would. But they both said the same thing. They had no idea where he was.

They spent all day Saturday searching for him while his mom went around putting up flyers. Then by Sunday, he was officially reported missing to the police. Not long after the cops got involved, Dorothy went to the duplex building on Harvard Street where Kurt went to the party. It was a complex only about two miles from where the Sovas lived. She went there to talk to Susan, the woman who rented the place.

But according to Dorothy, a woman answered when she knocked on the front door, but it wasn't Susan. She said she was the babysitter and Susan was at work. So Dorothy asked her about the party from Friday night and asked her if she had seen Kurt there. But the woman supposedly said that she didn't know anything about it and that she would have Susan call her as soon as she got home from work.

When Dorothy eventually heard from Susan later that night, she said she never saw Kurt on Friday and that there had never been a party at her place, which is a little strange because that's an outright lie. Two different people had already told the Sovez about the party, a pizza delivery guy who made a delivery in that neighborhood that night, as well as Kurt's friend Sam who went with him. So this woman was definitely lying.

By the time Dorothy called this Susan woman for the second time, she finally admitted, yes, there was a party at my place on Friday night, and Kurt was here for a little bit. But according to this woman, Kurt was only there for a little bit and was really drunk. She said there were about a dozen other people there, and most of them were much older than Kurt. None of them were even friends with Kurt, and some of them he just met that night.

She said he was drinking Everclear most of the night, which, if you haven't heard of it, is an insanely strong alcohol that's banned in many states. But this seemed a little strange right off the bat. Kurt wasn't a big drinker at all. Plus, he was a pretty small guy physically, so he probably wasn't the kind of person to handle a drink like Everclear.

But Dorothy wondered if Kurt only started drinking at the party because everyone else was. She never knew him or his regular friends to drink that much. But if most of the people there weren't his regular friends, then maybe he was only doing it to fit in. If everyone else was doing it, then why shouldn't he? He was 17 years old, and what teenage boy doesn't want to fit in with everyone else his age?

Kurt's friend Sam, who went with him to the party, said the same thing. Kurt had a little bit too much to drink. He said that he started stumbling and knocking things over at the party, so he took him outside to get some fresh air. Maybe that would help sober him up. When they got outside, Sam said he turned around to go back inside the apartment to get a jacket since it was a pretty chilly night.

He said he left Kurt by the fence out front and was only gone for a couple of minutes. When he came back outside to meet up with Kurt, he was gone and never saw him again. He looked around the complex but didn't see any sign of him. Eventually, he just assumed Kurt walked home, so he went back inside the party. But of course, we know that's not what happened.

Five days later, this is now Wednesday, October 28th, Kurt's body was found in a ravine behind a warehouse on Harvard Street, just 500 yards away from the duplex where the party was. You could pretty much see Kurt's body from the apartment where the party was that night. At first, no one had any idea what killed Kurt or how he died. Did he have some type of accident after he left the party, or was it something else?

He didn't have any visible injuries on his body, and it looked like he was just lying there asleep. And the only clues around his body were his shoes. His left shoe was found wedged in some rocks less than 12 feet away from his body, and the right one was missing. His body was taken to the county coroner's office for an autopsy.

The coroner determined that he had likely died 24 to 36 hours before his body was discovered, which meant that he had been alive for at least three days after he left the party. But what the coroner wasn't able to determine was the exact cause of death. So this is really where the mystery of this case begins. He wasn't beaten since he didn't have any major bruises or cuts.

He wasn't shot or strangled since there weren't any bullet holes and no marks around his neck. He didn't have enough alcohol in his system to cause an overdose. His blood alcohol content was only 0.11, which is nowhere near the fatal limit. He also had no drugs in his system. He didn't have any prior medical conditions that might have suggested this was a natural death.

By all means, he was a perfectly healthy 17-year-old kid. There was literally nothing from the autopsy that told the coroner how he could have died. Zero forensic evidence. The only thing they knew was that his body was dumped just a couple hundred yards away from the place that he was last seen, and one of his shoes was missing. That was it.

Without anything forensically to go off of, the coroner believed that Kurt likely died from, quote, instantaneous physiological death. And the manner of death was signed as, quote, probable accidental. Not a homicide, not a suicide, and not natural. Since Kurt had no pre-existing natural diseases or physical injuries, this was simply a diagnosis by exclusion type situation.

In other words, they couldn't figure out how or why he died, so this was basically a catch-all diagnosis. But how could that be? How does a seemingly healthy 17-year-old die from an instantaneous physiological death? And there's absolutely zero forensic proof to say if this was an accident or something else. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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But what's even stranger is that the coroner estimated Kurt's time of death was only 24 to 36 hours before his body was discovered. So that means there's about a 72-hour gap between the time he was at the party and when he was found dead. So where was he during those three days? A friend of Kurt's named David Trusnick claimed that he saw Kurt three days after he disappeared.

Kurt and another boy were walking along a busy street less than a mile from the Sova home. This is what David said that he saw. Quote,

I didn't know Kurt was missing. If I would have known he was missing, there probably could have been something I could have done. I could have followed the van, but I didn't know. And two days later, he was found dead. And that was the last time I saw him. End quote. So this seems to be a pretty good tip because this is the first time we've heard about Kurt's sighting after the party.

Everything up until this point suggested the last sighting of him was walking away from the party on Friday night. But it's also kind of weird. If this David person is really Kurt's friend, then why didn't he know he was missing? Pretty much everyone in town was out there looking for him. There were also missing person flyers everywhere.

But still, it was a pretty good lead at the time. And again, the first and really only sighting of Kurt during that 72-hour window. The very same day that David claimed to see Kurt getting into this van, something else weird happened. A man walking around the neighborhood noticed Kurt's missing poster in a window of a record store.

He apparently told the store manager that he might as well take the poster down because the person on it would probably be found dead in just two days. Even though that was a really strange thing for someone to say, the store manager didn't do anything because he just thought this guy was crazy. It wasn't until the next day that the manager started to get freaked out by what he said.

Because the very next day, there were flowers and a note on the store's door. The note said, The record store manager reported the entire incident to the police. But when they spoke to the man, they said he seemed, quote, According to the police, he was just some, quote,

And because Kurt was only missing at this point, the police released him. Later, when Kurt was eventually found dead, the man apparently disappeared, so they weren't able to question him again. The weird note at the record store might be one thing, but there's more. And this one might be even stranger.

On the same exact day that Kurt's body was found, his mom Dorothy got a phone call from Susan, the woman who rented the apartment where the party was. The call came in around 3.30 in the morning, and apparently Susan told Dorothy that someone was sleeping in her basement and she thought it might be Kurt.

Not only was it a really strange thing to call about at 3.30 in the morning, but why was she saying this now? Kurt had already been missing for several days, and if someone really was sleeping or passed out in her basement, why didn't she call Kurt's parents sooner? And could she really be telling the truth since she had lied so many times before?

First, she lied about Kurt being at her apartment, and she also lied about the party. So who's going to believe her now about this person supposedly living in her basement? Kurt's dad, Ken, went to the duplex himself to search the basement. He thought maybe Kurt was sick or hurt somehow, and he could have just been drunk and passed out there.

When he got there, there was a cot that, according to him, looked like someone had slept in. But after searching the entire place, Ken didn't find anyone there. So we have no idea if Kurt ever slept there or not. The only thing Ken's sure of is that someone was sleeping there. But whether that was Kurt or someone else, we have absolutely no idea.

If you ask Kurt's mom, Dorothy, she thinks Kurt was in that basement at some point. He might have died there or was already dead when he was in the cot. Then the people at the party panicked and got rid of his body in the ravine behind the complex. Whether or not Kurt died in the basement, his parents are sure of one thing. 24 hours before his body was found, he wasn't in that ravine.

They searched that exact spot and found nothing. So they think Kurt was dumped there later that evening. The family is positive that if Kurt had been there, they would have noticed the bright yellow t-shirt that he was wearing that night. Now I don't think I have to tell you that all of this is incredibly bizarre.

A strange man shows up in the neighborhood and leaves flowers and a cryptic poem on a record store door right before Kurt's body shows up. A woman calls Kurt's mom saying that someone is living in her basement and that someone might be her son, and we still have no idea where he was between the party on Friday night and Wednesday when his body was found or how he died.

And this isn't even where the story ends. Three months after Kurt died, another teenager turned up dead in a very similar way. 13-year-old Eugene Kvet was found in another ravine on Harvard Street, just two and a half miles from where Kurt's body was found. Both of them had been missing for several days before their bodies popped up, and Eugene's right shoe was also never found.

Now, an autopsy later determined that Eugene had died from falling into the ravine. But some people question whether that's really what happened to him, including me. All right, so where does Kurt's case stand today? Well, it stands in pretty much the same spot it stood for over 40 years. The police still consider it open, and it's still considered as a probable accident.

The theory is that Kurt somehow accidentally died, but we can't be too sure. But if you're like me, you still have so many unanswered questions, starting with the biggest. How exactly did he die? The coroner used the term instantaneous physiological death, which can really mean anything.

According to the website Medscape, instantaneous deaths are usually caused by one of four things. Number one, dysfunction or abnormalities of the heart and its vessels. Basically, something is wrong with the person's heart. And if something's wrong with their heart, then the entire body can shut down pretty quickly, like a heart attack. Number two, non-cardiac vessels. There's something wrong in another vessel within the body that's not the heart.

This seems to be more generic because it can mean pretty much anything. Number three, the pulmonary system. There's something wrong with the person's respiratory system, so their lungs, nose, or their mouth. Then finally, number four, something could be wrong with the person's central nervous system, the system responsible for managing pretty much everything our body does.

So if there's something majorly going on with any of these parts or systems, then according to Medscape.com, this can lead to someone dying, even if that person is otherwise healthy. But you would think the coroner would have found something in Kurt's autopsy. If he had a problem with his heart or a problem with his nervous system, then why didn't anything show up in the autopsy?

And if this was an accident somehow, again, my question is, why aren't there any physical signs of that? I think some people might wonder if alcohol had anything to do with his death. Based on a lot of witness accounts, Kurt was drinking at the party that night. But his blood alcohol level of 0.11, is that really high enough to kill someone?

Well, according to the authorities, they didn't think alcohol had anything to do with his death. According to the website alcohol.com, at 0.10%, a person's reaction time and control are pretty affected. We might start to slur our speech or even lose our ability to coordinate our arms and legs. Some people might even notice a delay in our thinking or reasoning.

This is when we can start to make some pretty bad decisions, like calling up an ex-boyfriend or an ex-girlfriend. But rarely is this amount of alcohol considered fatal. You probably shouldn't drive a car or call your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend, but it's not likely to kill you. Fatal amounts usually happen at 0.40% or higher. Now, I was curious to know if 0.11% alcohol

If it could be fatal in some people, I know for most of us it probably isn't, but could it be for some people? We know Kurt was only 17 years old and he was physically pretty small. He also wasn't a big drinker. So could that amount be fatal? Well, I didn't find anything definitive. Yes, it's twice the legal drinking limit in most states, but

But other than that, I didn't see anything suggesting that this amount of alcohol could have killed him. Sure, there's no specific amount of alcohol that can become fatal for everyone. So it's important to know your limits. But 0.11%? I just don't know. I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm just saying I didn't find anything specific or specific examples or situations of where this happened.

Now, for me, the bigger question is the kind of alcohol that Kurt was allegedly drinking at the party, Everclear. I've never had it, but Everclear can apparently be made with up to 75% or even 95% alcohol by volume. For reference, most beers in the U.S. only have about 4-8%. So that's an insane amount of alcohol by volume.

So maybe, given Kurt's size and age, he had a reaction to the Everclear that doesn't necessarily show up in his blood alcohol content. It's also entirely possible that the actual amount of alcohol in Kurt's system was much higher when he was alive. Remember, the amount of 0.11 was taken at the autopsy.

a few days after Kurt was already dead. So we don't know the exact amount he had in his system when he died. But there's another problem here. Kurt drank the Everclear Friday night. His body was found on Wednesday. And according to the coroner, he died sometime between 24 to 36 hours before that. So when exactly was he drinking?

From what I could find, the most accurate alcohol readings are only up to 48 hours after someone dies. Beyond that, the results just aren't very reliable. So I'm not sure what makes sense. If Kurt was drinking at the party on Friday, but he wasn't killed until, let's say, Tuesday, then how does he still have alcohol in his system? And does the alcohol even have anything to do with what happened to him or his death?

Or is this just something that people focus on when in reality it has nothing to do with it? My second question is, where was Kurt during that five-day period? The only clue we have is from the friend who said that he saw Kurt get into the van with someone else. That's it. We don't have any other confirmed sightings of him between Friday night and Wednesday afternoon.

And if the coroner is correct that he died 24 to 36 hours before Wednesday, then where was he that whole time? His family says they searched the ravine where his body was found dozens of times and never saw any sign of him. And I think they're telling the truth. I think if they searched that area, it would have been almost impossible to miss him.

So the only explanation that makes sense is that someone put him there just hours before his body was discovered. Now going back to the van for a second, according to Kurt's friend, when he got inside the van, he supposedly yelled out, Of course, the authorities would love to know exactly who this Franco person is. But to date, no one named Franco has ever been identified.

So it's impossible to say whether or not he had anything to do with Kurt's death. It's also strange for Kurt to get into a van with someone at all. He wasn't the type of kid to just run off and not tell his parents. So if that's what happened, why was Kurt hiding from his family and not telling them where he was? It just doesn't make sense for Kurt or the Kurt that his family knows to do something like that.

The next question is, did he sleep in the basement of that duplex? Kurt's dad, Ken, is absolutely positive that someone was sleeping in that cot. But was it Kurt? Again, Dorothy, Kurt's mom, thinks that it was. She also believes that people at the party were the ones who dumped his body in that ravine later on.

Maybe something happened to Kurt at the party, accidental or not, and the kids got scared and didn't know what to do. So they put him in the basement for a couple of days before dumping his body. But there's no way for us to know all of these years later or not. No DNA was ever collected from the cot or the basement, so we don't have the evidence to say either way. Now next question.

Was there any connection between his death and 13-year-old Eugene's death three months later? We know Eugene's death was ruled an accidental fall, but you can't deny the similarities between the two cases, especially the missing shoes. But again, there's no way for us to know, and there's zero forensic or physical evidence linking the two cases together. When it comes to suspects, there aren't any official ones.

The police suspect someone from the party knows what happened to him, and they believe it took at least two people to carry his body out to that ravine. Kurt's family also believes Susan, the apartment owner, is a possible suspect. She lied at least once when she told Kurt's mom there wasn't a party there that night. So what else could she be lying about if she lied about that?

Then, of course, there's the fact that Kurt's body was found 500 yards away from her place. Now, this might all seem suspicious and weird, but the police have never named this Susan person a suspect in Kurt's case. That's because there's no evidence linking her to anything other than telling a couple of lies in the beginning. The weird man who showed up at the record store basically predicting Kurt's death was also once considered a possible suspect.

He apparently bragged about having access to bodies flown into Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. He also bragged about removing shoes from the bodies, which does have a definite connection to Kurt's case. But after the police questioned him about the case, he apparently disappeared and has never been seen since. So if he actually knew anything about Kurt's death or not, we might never know.

Detectives believe that whoever put Kurt's body in the ravine was familiar with the area, and they probably knew that it would be a good place to dump a body. Shortly after Kurt's body was found, a woman reportedly saw two young men dragging an unconscious teenager down an alley toward the ravine. And even more interesting was that she said that one of his feet was barefoot.

At the time, she thought it was just a group of drunken teenagers. But after Kurt was found, she wondered if what she saw had anything to do with Kurt's case. But apparently her husband told her to not call the police because they should, quote, mind their own business. It wasn't until almost a year later when the woman ran into Ken and told him about what she had seen that the police found out about it.

But by then, the police had no interest in the tip and decided not to interview her. Could this have been a massive mistake by the police? Maybe, maybe not. Over the years, the Sova family has criticized how the Newburgh Heights police handled the investigation. And they're probably right. Several officers from the department have been arrested on charges ranging from falsifying credentials to drug trafficking.

Even the lead lieutenant on the case, Lieutenant Karras, was later discovered to be a drug addict who allegedly assaulted handcuffed inmates. In one incident, he was accused of taking a prisoner to the warehouse near where Kurt's body was found and tried to fight with him. And in 1991, he was convicted of attacking that inmate and given a sentence of 6 to 15 years in prison.

On top of that, according to Dorothy, he just wrote her off as, quote, a mother who couldn't accept her son's death, end quote. Not surprisingly, he denies any involvement in Kurt's death. Throughout the last 40 years, the Cleveland police, the county sheriff's office, and the prosecutor's office, as well as the FBI, have all looked at the case.

None of them could solve anything, but they all agreed on one thing. The Newburgh Heights police did a very bad investigation. Not a single photo was taken of Kurt's body at the scene. No search was ever done of the duplex where he was last seen. And no written statements were made from the people at the party with him that night. So from a criminal investigation standpoint, this was a complete disaster.

The Newburgh Police also rejected the Cleveland Police Department's offer to help in the beginning, which was probably a huge mistake because the Cleveland PD had a lot more resources. And who knows what those resources could have been able to do differently. In November 2019, the Newburgh Heights Police announced that they were reopening the case, partnering with Tiffin University.

They worked with a criminal justice professor and about a dozen students who all got together to go through the evidence again, but nothing significant was found, or at least nothing that's been made public. Then in February 2020, Kurt's story was featured in the CrimeCon event CrowdSolve, where 100 people worked together with the police and criminal forensic experts to try and generate new leads.

But we don't know what, if any new information was gained from this. In July 2001, Kurt's dad Ken passed away at the age of 68, and in December of 2014, Kurt's mom Dorothy passed away at the age of 76. Two of his brothers, Keith and Kenneth, have also passed away without knowing what happened.

His third brother, Kevin, is still alive and very much looking for answers. Today, a $5,000 reward is being offered for any new information about the mysterious death of Kurt Sova. His surviving brother and the entire true crime community haven't given up hope that even after four decades, we can finally figure out what happened to Kurt after he left that party.

What do you think happened to Kurt Sova in October 1981? Did something happen to him at the party and the other kids were too scared to tell anyone? Or could he have been murdered and his body was dumped there days later? Was he ever inside that basement, whether dead or alive? And did alcohol have anything to do with his death? Or was it something else?

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