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Episode 280

Sun, 19 Jan 2025

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In June of 2014, 16-year-old Gina Burger went missing from her home in Austintown, Ohio. Two days after she was reported missing, Gina was found 50 miles away, in another state. Her lifeless body was discovered among trash, in a landfill.

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What happened to Gina Burger in June 2014?

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A few years after Gina was adopted, the marriage between her adoptive parents began to fall apart, and they decided to divorce. Gina's adoptive mom later moved to Texas, and she took Gina with her.

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578.248 - 593.475 Jackie Botcher

She got her own place, moved the kids out. And I'm trying to think when she moved. Probably in 2004, she moved. She told me she was moving to Carrollton, Texas. I said that was around 2004 when they heard of the divorce.

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By 2010, Gina was living in Texas with her adoptive mom and her adoptive mom's new husband. Around this time, Gina, who was now a teenager, began acting up. She was having difficulty with school and began skipping her classes. This created some tension between her and her adoptive mom. So, Gina began looking for an escape.

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622.011 - 648.098 Jackie Botcher

I know it was 2010, came up and wanted to stay with me. She said that she wanted to stay a day on her visit. I tried to do that. It was in violation of the court order. So I subsided that effort. That's when we kind of became a bit estranged because she was out trying to stay and her mom turned her phone off on her and everything. So I let her move the phone.

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649.152 - 658.458 Jackie Botcher

And after some threats from a lawyer down there that she hired, I think it was December, same year, I just couldn't do that anymore.

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Gina hoped to leave Texas and move in with her adoptive father, who was willing to take her in. But her plan never came to fruition. So Gina continued looking for other ways to leave Texas.

674.548 - 675.469 Jackie Botcher

She was raped.

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Gina claimed that her adoptive mom's new husband sexually assaulted her, which has never been proven and remains a point of contention between Gina's adoptive parents.

701.039 - 720.026 Jackie Botcher

And they took her to the ER and found that there's been some sort of anal intrusion. And this further corroborates the story about Dennis and the rape. And Dennis has been arrested and charged for that crime and bailed out. But I never heard from them again.

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