Killer Left Her Dead in the Bathtub - Message on the Mirror Made No Sense | Jenny Zitricki

September 24, 2026

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Killer Left Her Dead in the Bathtub — Message on the Mirror Made No Sense

On Friday, April 6, 1990, a maintenance worker at Greenville, South Carolina's Hidden Lake Apartment Complex used his master key to check on a tenant who hadn't shown up for work. When he opened the door, he heard water still running. It had been running for a day and a half. Inside the bathtub, face up with only a t-shirt on, lay 28-year-old Genevieve "Jenny" Zitricki. A pair of pantyhose was wrapped around her neck. Her hands were positioned above her head. The running water had been aimed deliberately between her legs, as if to wash away evidence. On her bedroom mirror, someone had written in black marker: "Don't f with my family."

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1 (00:08) **The Discovery of Jenny Zitricki** - A maintenance worker opens the door to Jenny's apartment after she fails to show up for work, finding a scene of violence and the water still running.
2 (08:49) **Recap: The Sherer Family Murders** - The host recaps the 1998 Missouri murders of Sherry and Megan Sherer, which are connected to Jenny's case by DNA.
3 (11:00) **Who Was Jenny Zitricki?** - A portrait of the victim: a vibrant, outgoing woman from Ohio who built a new life in South Carolina after her divorce.
4 (15:31) **The Crime Scene: A Blitz Attack and a Staged Scene** - Investigators reconstruct the attack, concluding Jenny was bludgeoned while asleep, then dragged to the bathroom and posed.
5 (19:02) **The Bizarre Message on the Mirror** - The killer left a cryptic message, "Don't f with my family," which investigators initially believed was a motive but later concluded was a deliberate misdirection.
6 (25:03) **The Killer's Calculated Behavior** - The killer's actions in the apartment reveal a methodical, confident predator who was comfortable in the space.
7 (27:37) **The Case Goes Cold** - For years, the investigation yielded no suspects, though a potential link to a known serial killer was explored and ruled out.

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WATCH PART ONE: HERE

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On a Friday morning in April of 1990, a woman in Greenville, South Carolina didn't show up for work. Nobody had heard from her in almost thirty-six hours. When maintenance finally opened her apartment door, water was still running in the tub and it had overflowed into the apt. Her name was Genevieve, but everyone called her Jenny. She was twenty-eight years old, originally from Youngstown, Ohio, and she had moved to South Carolina less than two years earlier and built an entire life there from scratch. Her case went cold.However in Part ONE we found out that sixteen years later, and six hundred miles away, investigators in Portageville, Missouri, finally developed a full DNA profile in the 1998 murders of 38-year-old Sherri Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter Megan, who were killed inside their own farmhouse in a forty-minute window while the rest of the family was stuck behind a truck blocking the only road home.Missouri had spent eight years with evidence they couldn't use. When they finally entered that profile into the national database, it came back to an apartment in South Carolina. Two unsolved cases became one unsolved case. And there was still no name.

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