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In the autumn of 1973, a 21-year-old woman named Katherine Mestites found her life tragically cut short in a house trailer near Mesa, Arizona. Her death was not an isolated act of violence but a chapter in a horrifying saga of crime that spanned two states and left seventeen people dead. The story of her final days is intertwined with the names of her killers, Douglas Gretzler and his accomplice, Willie Steelman, two men who embarked on a brutal crime spree fueled by robbery and a chilling deter ...Read More
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Victim Details

Katherine Mestites

Female

White / Caucasian

Phoenix

AZ

1973-10-25

21

Katherine

Mestites

Yes

11/27/2025