Spring Break Vacation Turned Nightmare | The Case of Christine Lazzaro

August 25, 2026

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In April 1993, 20-year-old Christine "Chrissy" Lazzaro left her home in Rochester, New York for a spring break trip to Daytona Beach, Florida with sixteen friends. She was a fashion design student, a waitress, and a devoted friend who had recently begun dating a minor-league baseball player. She was saving up to move into an apartment with her three best friends. On Easter Sunday, those friends returned to their hotel room expecting to find Chrissy after a night out. Instead, they found a business card from a detective. Chrissy had been found dead that morning, shot twice in the head, her body dumped on a rural roadside thirty miles inland. It would take seventeen years and a confession from a Louisiana prison inmate to solve the case.

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1 (00:00) **Spring Break Begins** - The host introduces the case of Christine "Chrissy" Lazzaro, a 20-year-old from Rochester, NY, excited for her spring break trip to Daytona Beach.
2 (09:02) **The Night Out and the Disappearance** - The group goes to Razzles on Saturday night; after last call, Chrissy is not with them.
3 (19:25) **The Body is Found** - A resident in Deberry, 30 miles from Daytona, discovers a woman's body on the side of the road on Easter morning.
4 (23:50) **Notification and Shock** - Chrissy's father Frank is notified, and her brother sees the news on TV; her friends in Daytona are informed by detectives.
5 (29:39) **Autopsy and New Clues** - The autopsy reveals two gunshot wounds to the head and a key clue: a second nightclub stamp on Chrissy's hand from "701 South."
6 (31:15) **The First Suspect: Brent Cole** - A bartender at Razzles remembers Chrissy with a man who signed his credit card receipt as "Brent Cole."
7 (36:36) **The Sketch of the Mystery Man** - The manager of the 701 South club remembers Chrissy with a man who had an "Arsenio Hall" hairstyle and a short temper with the bouncer.

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The Christine Lazzaro case is one of the most haunting cold cases to come out of Daytona Beach, Florida in the early 90's. In the spring of 1993, 20-year-old Christine Lazzaro traveled from upstate New York to sunny Florida with three of her friends for a week of spring break: the sun, freedom, and the kind of carefree escape every young person dreams of. It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. For Christine, it would be her last.

One night out would change everything. She was last seen leaving a Daytona nightclub, and by the next morning her friends were frantically wondering where she was. What happened in the hours after she walked out that door would baffle investigators and the answers wouldn't come easily, or quickly..

Who was the last person to see Christine Lazzaro alive? Why did this case go cold for so long, and what finally broke it open? In this episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, we trace the full Christine Lazzaro case: who she was, the spring break trip that turned into a nightmare, and the long road to the truth.

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