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Casefile True Crime
Case 282: April Tinsley
May 4, 2024
A chilling case unfolds as young girls in Indiana receive threatening letters linked to the unsolved murder of eight-year-old April Tinsley. The podcast delves into the investigation, the eerie discoveries on a rural barn door, the resurgence of the case, and the unraveling of dark secrets leading to the arrest of the killer after 30 years.
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- Advanced genetic genealogy led to the identification and closure of April Tinsley's cold case.
- The killer, John Miller, confessed to the horrific abduction and assault of eight-year-old April Tinsley.
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The Initial Threat and Abduction of April Tinsley
In late March 2004, seven-year-old Emily Higgs found a threatening letter in her pink bicycle basket claiming to be from April Tinsley's killer. The letter contained misspellings and handwriting similar to the 1990 confession found on a barn. John Miller confessed to the 1988 abduction, sexual assault, and murder of eight-year-old April Tinsley, leaving the body in a ditch after choking her to prevent disclosure.
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