It's Crime Time
It's Crime Time
Emily Fisher
S01E26: The Now-Solved Cold Case of Krystal Beslanowitch
17 minutes Posted Jul 18, 2022 at 11:01 pm.
PM, but never returned to the motel her and her boyfriend, Chris were living in. Chris walked to the convenience store to search for Krystal, but the employees say they never saw her there.  Two days later, the nude, battered body of a teenage female was found on the bank of the Provo River. She had been beaten to death with granite rocks. Her boyfriend phoned the police after seeing drawings of the Jane Doe's tattoos on the news to tell them he believes the body was that of his girlfriend, Tracy Beslanowitch. It was later determined that Krystal had been using the identity of her step-sister, Tracy, and that the Jane Doe was in fact Krystal. 
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On December 14, 1995, 17-year-old Krystal Beslanowitch set off on foot to go to  a convenience store in Salt Lake City, Utah at
18 years later, the murder was solved using new technology known as the M-Vac when police were able to take DNA from the rocks at the crime scene used to kill Krystal. 
OG Release Date: 07/20/2020
Sources:
Laikan Savage (2020, February 1)
Forensic Tales (2020, February 9)
Salt Lake Tribune (2016, September 30)
FOX 13 (2019, September 19)
TV Crime Sky (2019, April 20)
Audio:
M-Vac Systems (2016, December 18)