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Shauna Kauenberg

Guest on Island Crime podcast; great-great-granddaughter of unsolved 1959 murder victims Andrew and Elizabeth Kostyniuk.

May 29, 2026

8:02
She grew up hearing whispers about her great-great-grandparents' murder.
8:07
My mom had talked about it, and my grandma had talked about it.
8:11
Like, I had heard about it when I was quite young, but I wasn't really interested, or it didn't really, like, sink in the gravity of like, this is real life.
8:23
And, um, you know, it's never been solved, of course.
8:28
I do regret not kind of looking into things a lot earlier, 'cause in 2006, I was doing my family tree, and so I had got the, some of the newspaper articles from the university microfilm.
9:07
The papers called them by their formal names back then, Andrew and Elizabeth Kostenuk, but most everyone knows them as Curly and Lizzie.
9:18
I was living in South Wellington at the time.
9:20
I had walked down South Wellington Road trying to find the house because there was pictures.

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