Anastasia Nicolazzi
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1,398 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
Anastasia Nicolazzi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In January of 1976, a 16-year-old girl named Pam Maurer was at a friend's house on a snowy night.
When police arrived, they noticed something that got their attention. A rubber hose lying next to the body. They took it in as potential evidence, and it was determined later to be related.
The autopsy also concluded that there had been sexual activity sometime shortly before her death. But there were no signs of physical trauma, which at the time often steered investigations away from the potential of sexual assault. Of course, now we know that sexual assault can occur with and without obvious signs of physical injury.
Some victims may struggle and some may react in the opposite manner. sometimes by freezing or even becoming passive out of absolute terrifying fear or shock.
And so what happened to Pam Maurer, the case just sat like Kathy's for decades.
But then, just about five years ago from now, investigators decided to take another look at Pam Maurer's case.
The evidence in Pam's case had fortunately been, and in some ways miraculously been, preserved for decades, including a pair of jeans that had a yellowish stain on the pocket. Investigators thought that it looked consistent with semen.
The DNA was put into a federal database, but they didn't get any matches. So investigators decided to try a novel approach, genetic genealogy, which is becoming more popular. So Lyle Police decided to look there.
But in his late 20s, Bruce Lindahl became known to authorities. He had died, but it wasn't straightforward. The story caught the eye of investigators in Pam's case. Bruce's death, they realized, may not be the end of his story.
In a twist of fate, Bruce Lindahl severed his own femoral artery during the attack, and he bled to death at the scene, dying while committing the murder.
And Scott, you know, you and I have seen and talked about multiple times that it really is not that uncommon for someone to be injured when they are specifically stabbing someone because they are in this frenzy, but certainly to bleed to death themselves, that is not the most common, to say the least.
A woman had ridden her bike to the Northgate Shopping Center. If that location sounds familiar to you, it's because it's the same shopping center where Kathy Hawley had worked.
When a neighbor finally answered, the young woman frantically explained what had happened. She described her attacker as having haunting, bright blue eyes. The homeowner immediately recognized the person she was describing based on the eyes as his neighbor who lived just a few doors away, Bruce Lindahl. And Lindahl then was quickly arrested and held on the assault, but was soon able to make bail.
Two years passed without anyone knowing what had happened to Deb Colliander. Then in 1982, her body was found in a farm field about 15 miles south of North Aurora. Her death was ruled a homicide.
There was also a photograph of Lindell himself. It turned out he looked strikingly similar to the photograph generated by the DNA phenotyping in Pat Maurer's case.
In January of 2020, 48 years later, the Lyle Police Department announced they had identified Pam Maurer's killer. It was Bruce Lindahl. Their discovery triggered what's called a critical reach.
There were more than a few similarities between the homicides of the two young women. Both Pam and Kathy were killed in a similar manner, within a 20-mile radius from each other and within a few years from one another.
The investigation team at North Aurora decided to send Kathy's evidence to the lab, the same lab that had found Lindahl's DNA on Pam's evidence. Perhaps they would find the same DNA on Kathy's clothing. the main method used for that DNA collection at the lab was swabbing.
The solving of Pam Maurer's homicide had given renewed hope to Kathy's investigators. So the inconclusive testing was a real letdown.
It also mentioned Kathy's case, despite the fact that there was no conclusive evidence or court determinations, but it tied Lindahl to Kathy Halle's murder. The film put North Aurora investigators in an awkward position, especially with Kathy's family.
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