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title: "Mandy Stavik: The Case that took 30 Years to Solve"
description: "The decades-long investigation into the 1989 murder of Mandy Stavik, an 18-year-old college student from Acme, Washington, and how a bakery worker's courageous act finally brought her killer to justice."
url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/mandy-stavik-case-30-years-solve.md
canonical: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/mandy-stavik-case-30-years-solve
datePublished: 2026-06-12
dateModified: 2026-06-12
author:
  - name: Dana Ortiz
    url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/author/dana-ortiz
publisher: Casual Criminalist
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---

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The decades-long investigation into the 1989 murder of Mandy Stavik, an 18-year-old college student from Acme, Washington, and how a bakery worker's courageous act finally brought her killer to justice.
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