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The Case of Mario Casciaro
📻 Episode #443
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 11, 2024
About This Episode
On December 21, 2002, 17-year-old Brian Carrick, a stock boy at Val’s Foods, a grocery store in Johnsburg, IL, was reported missing by his mother. Police determined that one of the last sightings of Carrick was a day earlier, on December 20, when he went to the store to pick up his paycheck. On December…
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The Case
On December 21, 2002, 17-year-old Brian Carrick, a stock boy at Val’s Foods, a grocery store in Johnsburg, IL, was reported missing by his mother. Police determined that one of the last sightings of Carrick was a day earlier, on December 20, when he went to the store to pick up his paycheck. On December 22, police found blood spatter near a cooler used to store produce and a bloody fingerprint on the cooler’s exterior door handle. DNA tests identified the blood spatter near the cooler as Carrick’s. The blood that was on the cooler door handle was identified by DNA testing as belonging to Robert Render, another stock boy at Val’s. But a different stock boy, 19-year-old Mario Casciaro, was charged and sentenced to 26 years in prison for Carrick’s murder.
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00:05:23“Speaker 1: dropped out of sight. You don't need to be Colombo Speaker 1: to start to wonder what was going on there. But okay, now, Speaker 1: other stock boys who were present on the day that Speaker 1: Carrick was last seen, included you. The crime went unsolved”
00:19:39“Speaker 3: an article that said that he had blood all over the. Speaker 3: Place so, unfortunately in between the second and third, Trial Speaker 3: Rob rendered overdosed on drugs on A i think it's Speaker 3: called a hot, shot so it's like when you take Speaker 3: caroin and cocaine mixed. Together but he was at a rehab,”
00:32:35“Speaker 3: the amount of. Phones you guys can make more, money Speaker 3: you'd have less, fights and she acted like she had no, Speaker 3: idea and then she was, like you're being, released see you. Speaker 3: Later so my family brings clothes in to, me and”
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