Anastasia Nicolazzi
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1,398 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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How long is too long to wait for justice? Four months? Four years? Four decades? For victims' families, balancing the demand for accountability and the deeper need for healing can be a long and traumatic process.
When is it okay to stop searching for someone's killer? Our answer is never, but sadly, it's a question many survivors have to ask. And their answer is personal and unique to each family or individual.
In 2020, Holly Wood-Webster was a new prosecutor suddenly thrust into a very old homicide investigation, the 1985 murder of Yvonne Menke in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin.
Yvonne was a kind, quintessentially salt-of-the-earth Midwesterner, known for her warm personality and dedication to her children, even when that meant working long hours at multiple jobs just to keep food on the table.
She was up early for work. It was December 12, 1985, which, being winter in Wisconsin, was a typically frigid morning.
Yvonne headed out the door of her apartment and down the enclosed exterior stairwell up the building, which led directly to the parking lot on the ground floor.
Julie struggled to make out a description of the person who appeared to be fleeing the scene. But there was no mistaking the overwhelming sense of menace and dread.
Yvonne's injuries were so grave that she was actually lying in a pool of her own blood. She appeared to have suffered severe traumatic injuries to her head.
Investigators at the scene noted that Yvonne's purse, car keys, and car all remained untouched, suggesting the motive for the attack was not a robbery.
It suggested that the shooter was not behind Yvonne, but lying in wait at the bottom of the stairs. In other words, this was no chance encounter. This was an ambush.
Despite the cold weather, Yvonne's body temperature when police arrived confirmed her daughter's story that the attack had occurred within the hour, which meant the killer had a head start, but not a big one.
And if you're wondering how you use molten sulfur to cast a mold from a boot print in the snow, you're not alone.
Promising, but it was still not a ton to go on. And unfortunately, Yvonne's daughter was not able to offer many more details about the person she saw fleeing the scene.
According to Yvonne's kids, Jack Owen had been the source of considerable drama and heartbreak for their mother over the years since their parents' divorce.
What went on between them in the hours before that ambush was a mystery that just might hold the key to solving her murder.
But this being a tight-knit community, there were some ideas about who. According to her children, Yvonne had been romantically involved with a local man named Jack Owen for years.
But to those in the know, Jack and Yvonne's relationship was not always the picture of stability. Jack had a reputation as a playboy, and his relationship with another woman was a frequent source of friction between them.
So obviously, investigators were keen to interview Jack to both size up and secure his alibi for the morning of Yvonne's murder.
When asked about rumors of a romantic affair with Mary Jo Luntzman, he was equally defensive.
And in fact, there were some of Yvonne's own friends that said the tension between her and Jack had finally come to a head.
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