Coming Soon: The Sleepy Valley Road Mystery
The Girl Who Loved Daffodils
Fifteen year old Kristy Leigh Yates left home in Hot Springs, Arkansas on a Thursday morning in 1997 and never came back. Two days later her body was found near an abandoned rock quarry off Sleepy Valley Road. She had been strangled and stabbed.
In this three part series from The Coroner’s Report Podcast, hosts Tracey Carrington and former coroner and Arkansas State Crime Lab director Steve Nawojczyk dig into Kristy’s life, the brutal crime that took her, and the investigation that has haunted her family for nearly thirty years. You will hear from her father, her sister, investigators, experts on gang violence, and the people who loved her.
This is not just a case. It is a family’s loss. Kristy Yates deserved better. Her family deserved better.