15-year-old Patty Desmond with author Maureen Boyle

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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BRAND NEW EPISODE! HER CASE HAD BEEN CLOSED—BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she’d come home in a week or two. The year was 1965. That night was the last time her family ever saw her. Conrad Eugene Miller was well-known to local law enforcement. An older married man with a child, Miller’s association with Patty was questionable at best. Yet he was the last person known to have seen her alive—and the suspect police continued to circle back toward. After nothing but false sightings and rumors, the case was moved to the backburner—where it stayed. As decades crept by, reality sunk Patty Desmond was never coming back. Then, a tiny crack unleashed a flood of information, and a mystery that had never quite been forgotten was solved. Purchase Child Last Seen HERE Twitter: @MaureenEBoyle1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maureeneboyle/ https://www.maureenboylewriter.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Maureenboylewriter/ https://shallowgravesthebook.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Who Killed.
0:08.4	I am your host, Bill Huffman, and this is, of course, a slow burn media, evergreen
0:13.6	podcasts, and killer podcast production.
0:17.1	On this week's episode, we're going to look at the tragic tale of Patty Desmond, who disappeared on a cold night in December, 1965.
0:26.6	She had been known to run away, and there was an expectation that she may return home, but the case went cold.
0:36.7	And this is where we pick up with author,
0:41.0	Maureen Boyle, who has just released a book called Child Last Seen,
0:46.1	which covers this mysterious case
0:49.4	and the tragic case of one 15-year-old Patty Desmond. So with that being said, let's jump into our conversation
0:58.1	with author Maureen Boyle. How are you doing today, Maureen? Very good. And thanks for having me.
1:03.5	It's always a fun time on your show. I love being on your show. Well, thank you very much.
1:09.1	And you have once again been busy and you never seem to slow down.
1:16.3	And what that means is you've got another book out. And this book covers five decades worth of
1:24.8	investigations and give me a little bit of, in the audience,
1:30.2	a little bit of a taste of what the title is and how this book turned out.
1:36.7	The title is Child Last Scene, The Search for Patty Desmond.
1:40.6	It's set in Pennsylvania.
1:42.6	And it starts in 1965 when a 15-year-old girl snuck out of her house
1:48.3	and was never seen again by her family. It is sort of an offshoot but not a complete offshut.
1:54.0	I learned about this case when I was investigating and writing my second book, The Ghost,
2:05.0	the murder of police Chief Greg Adams and the hunt for his killer, one of the investigators in Pennsylvania State Police Investigator,
2:11.3	who was a road trooper at the time that Chief was killed. When I was talking to him, he mentioned this case and said
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