Host Anne-Marie Green and 48 Hours Correspondent Erin Moriarty discuss the 1979 murder of Catina Rose Salarno, who was shot by her ex-boyfriend, Steven Burns, and her family’s ongoing fight to keep him in prison. Erin shares how 48 Hours producers tracked down witnesses more than four decades later, how attending the recent parole hearing changed her opinion on the case, and the lasting impact Catina’s death has had on her family. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome back to Postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green. And today we are speaking with 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty about the case of Katina Rose Salerno. In 1979, Katina was shot on campus at the University of the Pacific in California. It was the first day of her freshman year, and the assailant was her high school boyfriend, Stephen Burns. Katina was just 18 years old at the time.
Burns was convicted of second-degree murder in 1980, and he's been in prison for four decades. Katina's family wants to keep it that way. They have attended every single parole board hearing, 13 in total, to advocate against his release. So Aaron is joining us now. Aaron, thank you so much.
Well, I'm very happy to be here. Thank you, Anne-Marie, because this case, as you're going to hear, was eye-opening on so many different levels. I've seen it all, but I hadn't seen this, and so I want to talk about it.
Yeah, we don't talk often about this sort of component of the criminal justice system, the parole system, so I'm... Looking forward to digging into it. I do want to remind everyone that if you haven't already listened to this episode of 48 Hours, you can find it in your podcast stream just above this one. Go ahead, go listen, and then come on back.
Katina Solano and Stephen Burns, they were high school sweethearts. They lived across the street from each other. But when Katina tried to break up with him, Burns threatened to kill her. She left and she went to college and she was absolutely shocked when he turned up at the same college as her. They had discussed this before and he was supposed to be going to another college.
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