Oct 12, 2026 · 33 min · 20 segments
Prosecutor Kinli Abee takes us inside the Cati Blauvelt murder case and the yearslong pursuit to find her killer and finally bring him to justice. To get ad-free episodes, early access to new true…
Kinli AbeeGuest
Deborah RobertsHost
Let's talk a little bit, uh, more about you then before we even get into this case, because for more than, what, 13 years you've been a criminal prosecutor.
You're deeply, deeply concerned about, um, penetrating these cases that involve, um, young women and so forth.
Yeah, so you know, I was a first-generation lawyer in my family, but knew pretty early on I wanted to do trial work, that I wanted to be a litigator, and that I wanted to be a prosecutor.
There's something about being a prosecutor where you just have this ability to do the right thing for the right reason every time.
And then I zeroed in in college really on helping special victims, so children of, uh, sexual assault, domestic violence, uh, domestic homicide, which is what this case was.
Um, I zeroed in pretty early on on trying to help some of our most vulnerable populations and getting the opportunity to be a voice for them and a representation for them in court.
Yeah, and as a woman too, I would imagine that you really feel a burning passion about it.
I have interviewed so many, uh, female prosecutors, detectives, who really bring something kind of different to this kind of work, because we do feel it, I think, a little bit differently when we are out, out there, when I'm reporting, when you're prosecuting, I would imagine.
I mean, we see, you know, these shared experiences in our friends and, and people that we know, and so it's just so interesting to be able to actually do something about it on this side.
Let's talk a little bit, uh, more about you then before we even get into this case, because for more than, what, 13 years you've been a criminal prosecutor.
You're deeply, deeply concerned about, um, penetrating these cases that involve, um, young women and so forth.
Yeah, so you know, I was a first-generation lawyer in my family, but knew pretty early on I wanted to do trial work, that I wanted to be a litigator, and that I wanted to be a prosecutor.
There's something about being a prosecutor where you just have this ability to do the right thing for the right reason every time.
And then I zeroed in in college really on helping special victims, so children of, uh, sexual assault, domestic violence, uh, domestic homicide, which is what this case was.
Um, I zeroed in pretty early on on trying to help some of our most vulnerable populations and getting the opportunity to be a voice for them and a representation for them in court.
Yeah, and as a woman too, I would imagine that you really feel a burning passion about it.
I have interviewed so many, uh, female prosecutors, detectives, who really bring something kind of different to this kind of work, because we do feel it, I think, a little bit differently when we are out, out there, when I'm reporting, when you're prosecuting, I would imagine.
I mean, we see, you know, these shared experiences in our friends and, and people that we know, and so it's just so interesting to be able to actually do something about it on this side.
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