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The Long Walk Home - The Aseneth Dukat Project

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks

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My parents moved our family from Long Island, NY, to Upper Arlington, Ohio in January of 1980. The first thing I remember about being in Ohio, other than sleeping on the living room floor without furniture the first night, was the Steelers Rams Super Bowl played on January 20 and won by Pittsburgh. I was 9 years old.

I attended CCD, which if you don't know is Catholic Sunday school, at Our Lady of Victory in Marble Cliff. Among the other kids in that class was Aseneth Dukat, a happy young girl with a whole lifetime in front of her. She was in my grade at school, Barrington elementary, but we had separate classrooms and teachers.

On June 3, 1980, Aseneth, aged 9, was walking home from school. She was abducted, strangled, raped, and finally killed via a 20 pound stone being dropped on her head. She had nearly made it home, as her body was found in a culvert not even 500 feet from her house. Her assailant(s) has/have never been found.

I was going to wait to post this until the 40th anniversary of this horrifying event, but because the case remains open and there may be some remote chance someone here has ANY information, I decided to share it now.

The Long Walk Home - The Aseneth Dukat Project

May you rest in Peace, you precious soul. It's been 40 years, and in just 6 months together, I barely knew you, but I shed tears for you even as I write this today missing you.

If you know ANYTHING at all that could possibly help solve this crime, please contact those who run the linked site.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
My parents moved our family from Long Island, NY, to Upper Arlington, Ohio in January of 1980. The first thing I remember about being in Ohio, other than sleeping on the living room floor without furniture the first night, was the Steelers Rams Super Bowl played on January 20 and won by Pittsburgh. I was 9 years old.

I attended CCD, which if you don't know is Catholic Sunday school, at Our Lady of Victory in Marble Cliff. Among the other kids in that class was Aseneth Dukat, a happy young girl with a whole lifetime in front of her. She was in my grade at school, Barrington elementary, but we had separate classrooms and teachers.

On June 3, 1980, Aseneth, aged 9, was walking home from school. She was abducted, strangled, raped, and finally killed via a 20 pound stone being dropped on her head. She had nearly made it home, as her body was found in a culvert not even 500 feet from her house. Her assailant(s) has/have never been found.

I was going to wait to post this until the 40th anniversary of this horrifying event, but because the case remains open and there may be some remote chance someone here has ANY information, I decided to share it now.

The Long Walk Home - The Aseneth Dukat Project

May you rest in Peace, you precious soul. It's been 40 years, and in just 6 months together, I barely knew you, but I shed tears for you even as I write this today missing you.

If you know ANYTHING at all that could possibly help solve this crime, please contact those who run the linked site.
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This just punched me in the gut. So very awful and yet after 40 years nothing...life ain't very fair
 
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brodybuck21 said:
This just punched me in the gut. So very awful and yet after 40 years nothing...life ain't very fair
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gmen6981 said:
No words. I guess some things just aren't meant to be understood.
Horrible, heinous and despicable.
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Yeah, I have to say, when I dug back into this and all those memories came flooding back to me.... Let's just say I was surprised at how emotional reliving them made me, now 40 years after the fact. The minds of children, it seems, aren't made to fully process this kind of shit as I feel much of what I have been grappling with were repressed memories. Indeed, it was reading, and remembering the rock crushing her skull that brought it all back and which I had completely put out of my mind for decades. And when it came back, I was 9 years old again for a few hours. I don't know... I just remember that fact, being crushed by a rock, was the single most horrifying thing for me at the time... I thought about that awful act for months.
 
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I have vague recollections of this happening. My father was in state law enforcement but originally from Hilliard. I was in NWO at the time. My recollections are less about when it happened but a year after this there was an attempted abduction of a girl in my class and I recall the dinner conversation being about what happened ‘back home in Columbus.’

This had to have been a terrible thing to be close to as a child. I can’t imagine.
 
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This kind of story would always bother me, as I hope it would anyone, but now that I have my own kids running around it completely guts me.

I'm sorry I won't have anything that can help, this happened two years before I was born, but I hope that this leads to some closure and peace for the family and you and anyone else affected by this.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go give my kids a hug.
 
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Thump said:
My cousin was kidnapped in the early 80's on her way to school. She was 11 and a guy took her off of her bike.

By the grace of God she escaped later that afternoon.

It was all over the Columbus news at the time.
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Horrible.

As tough as it was for me in those days, in the wake of Seanie being killed, to have been a girl of that age? Talk about terrifying.

I am glad your cousin made it free and hope she has been able to move on with her life.
 
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My wife served on a jury considering the not guilty by reason of insanity defense of a guy who had kidnapped and molested an eight-year old girl (there was no argument that he hadn't done it). She felt for the guy (his life story/childhood was unbelievably horrible and he had himself been a victim of repeated sexual abuse as a child), but they didn't find him insane. She said it was pretty rough when the girl testified.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
My wife served on a jury considering the not guilty by reason of insanity defense of a guy who had kidnapped and molested an eight-year old girl (there was no argument that he hadn't done it). She felt for the guy (his life story/childhood was unbelievably horrible and he had himself been a victim of repeated sexual abuse as a child), but they didn't find him insane. She said it was pretty rough when the girl testified.
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Suspect 1 in Seanie's case may well have been schizophrenic (this is me guessing a diagnosis and not official record). Suspect 1 committed suicide in 1984 around the 4 year anniversary of the murder. He, by all accounts, was a troubled soul.

Suspect 2 - had issues as well, mostly anger and drugs. Not psychosis. (Again, just my analysis and not official)
 
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This the tree and monument that was planted at Barrington Elementary in her memory:

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Rest in Peace, Seannie.
 
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LovelandBuckeye said:
These stories make me hold my children tighter, but at the same time they open an element of rage that can only be reserved for someone that does this to a child. I hope her family has been able to attempt to live a semi-normal life after this.

And hopefully Hell is real and this SOB is in it or will be soon.
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The strength of the Dukat family.... it inspires. I'm on my phone right now, so it's hard to bring stuff over, but there are quotes and such from the family on the linked page. They are much stronger than I would have been in the same circumstance.

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