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MURDERED: Anastasia WitbolsFeugen

In 1997, a young woman is found shot dead in a cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. Police work on tracking down the group of friends she was last seen with… and they learn another life has been lost. As the pressure mounts, the investigation stalls until a shocking confession gets the Wheels of Justice moving. But at the end of the day, some are left to wonder…Did they find the right person?
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1h 2m
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11 Aug 2025
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In 1997, a young woman is found shot dead in a cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. Police work on tracking down the group of friends she was last seen with… and they learn another life has been lost. As the pressure mounts, the investigation stalls until a shocking confession gets the Wheels of Justice moving. But at the end of the day, some are left to wonder…Did they find the right person?

 

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- Hi, creme junkies, I'm your host, Britt Pray-Watt. - And I'm Ash, we're switching things up today. - Yeah. - I have been working on some pretty big cases lately, so Britt is-- - It's no big deal. - You came across this from a podcast and like made contact, we have to cover it, I'm so excited. - Yeah, the story I have for you today seemingly starts as a late 90s fatal teen romance, but a shocking confession and so many twists and turns later, you're going to be wondering if police got this one right. Now, over 20 years later, I'm bringing you a crime junkie breakdown on what happened and digging into who could be responsible for murder. This is the story of Anastasia Woodbills-Fugan. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
- It's almost 4 a.m. on October 23rd, 1997, when Deputy David Epperson with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department is patrolling through Kansas City, Missouri and cuts into Lincoln Cemetery. He's looking for any sign of stolen vehicles. Apparently it's a commonplace people leave them. And this cemetery is dark, he's just got his headlights shining ahead. And as he gets to a turnaround spot in the back of the lot, he comes upon someone lying on the ground. He doesn't know if they're drunk or hurt, but they're not moving. So he gets out of his cruiser only to realize it's neither of those things. In front of him is a woman with dark hair lying on her back with a huge gunshot wound to the middle of her face. To Deputy Epperson, it looks like she was shot right there where she stood, point blank, and buy someone else because there's no gun present. He calls for backup and while he waits, he looks for anything that can help ID this woman, but there's nothing around her, no purse or anything. And the only thing they find in her pockets is a key and a cuckoo clock keychain. That's nothing that's going to immediately help IDing her. By the time the sun begins to rise, investigators have already looked the woman over and had her body removed for an autopsy. Is she like young old?

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In 1997, a young woman is found shot dead in a cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. Police work on tracking down the group of friends she was last seen with… and they learn another life has been lost. As the pressure mounts, the investigation stalls until a shocking confession gets the Wheels of Justice moving. But at the end of the day, some are left to wonder…Did they find the right person?