Dave Sepich from Carlsbad got featured on the Katie Sepich episode of Dateline. Here are more details about her father.
Sepich is the father of Katie Sepich, who got kidnapped and tragically murdered in August 2003. She was a young woman walking home from a house party, and she never made it home. Dave describes his daughter as a go-getter.
Katie was a graduate student at New Mexico State University at the time of the incident. In the Dateline episode, Sepich honored his daughter and revealed that she was a ball of fire, and she was going 90 miles per hour her whole life.
Dateline: Who Is Dave Sepich From Carlsbad NM?
Dave Sepich owns Spring Cleaning Services, a professional cleaning service based in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He has been operating the company with his wife since 1974.
Sepich purchased a small carpet cleaning business after moving to Carlsbad. Over the years, he has grown the family business into one of the biggest cleaning companies in the state.
He has worked in several laundry facilities, janitorial, and hospital housekeeping businesses in Dallas, Nebraska, and Lincoln.
Dave Sepich, the father of Katie Sepich, says he remembers vividly the day he had to identify his 22-year-old daughter at the morgue in an extended sit-down interview, as part of “The Series: A Mother’s Love” now on https://t.co/5uC1PeSxQD. #TheSeriesPlus pic.twitter.com/jSGH2D1kVD
— KRQE News 13 (@krqe) August 20, 2019
The Dateline NBC told the horrifying 2003 murder of Katie Sepich in a two-hour episode titled, The Woman Who Couldn’t Scream. Season 28, Episode 21 of the show premiered on February 21, 2020.
The episode featured emotional interviews of her parents, Dave and Jayann, her former roommate, and her siblings. The law enforcement detectives, including retired Capt. Robert Jones and former Las Cruces police detective Mark Myers were also featured.
Katie’s parents, family, and friends shared their memories of her after the episode, reports Las Cruces Sun-News.
Meet Dave Sepich Wife Jayann Sepich
Dave Sepich and his wife, Jayann Sepich, are parents to three children. Katie was their first child, and their other kids are Caraline Sepich and A.J. Sepich.
At the urging of Katie’s parents, Jayann and Dave Sepich, more than 30 states have begun collecting DNA samples from individuals arrested for violent crimes. https://t.co/rCNbqAtfu2
— Lincoln Journal Star (@JournalStarNews) March 5, 2021
Katie was sweet, outgoing, and bossy, and her whole life was an adventure. She was working as a waitress at a Las Cruces Mexican restaurant, El Sombrero Patio Cafe.
Who Killed Dave Sepich Daughter Katie Sepich?
Dave Sepich’s daughter, Katie Sepich, was last seen alive on August 31, 2003. The 22-year old’s body was found near a Las Cruces landfill the next day. She got strangled, se*ually assaulted, and her body was partially burned.
The case remained unsolved for over three years until the DNA of a 27-year-old Las Cruces resident, Gabriel Avila, was submitted for another case. He confessed to killing Katie after he almost struck her with his truck.
Gabriel Avila pleaded guilty to several felonies in 2007 and was sentenced to 69 years in prison.