198 - The Murder of Laura Ann Parker
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
On a cool spring morning in May of 1984, fourteen year old Laura Ann Parker went off to Lindenhurst High School and never came home. While her parents pressed the police, and even the FBI, to track down the missing teen, their concerns were written off as it was ruled that Laura had chosen to runaway.
For four long months James and Patricia Parker investigated for themselves. They gave out their home phone number, tracked down every lead from Manhattan to the eastern end of Long Island. Sadly, they never found a trace of their beloved daughter.
Then, in September, a group of teenage boys came upon a grisly scene. In a local hangout, in the middle of the woods, they discovered Laura's skeletal remains beneath an old rolled up carpet. A cause of death could not be determined, but evidence as the scene suggested this had likely been a homicide and that Laura had died the very day she was reported missing.
Now, urged to investigate the murder, the Suffolk County Police ran into a wall of silence from the community. No one wanted to talk, no one seemed to care. While some speculated that Laura had to have been killed by someone passing through town, investigators started to believe Laura may have known her assailant.
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| 0:00.0 | So, will it be skiing? |
| 0:03.0 | Or Christmas markets on a city break? |
| 0:06.0 | Skiing? Or a city break? |
| 0:09.0 | Some problems are good problems to have. |
| 0:12.0 | Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way |
| 0:17.0 | and Package holidays from £159 per person. |
| 0:21.0 | Get Vicking at EasyJet.com |
| 0:24.0 | Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights |
| 0:28.0 | for restrictions and season C supply. |
| 0:31.0 | On a hot humid afternoon in September of 1984, a group of local teens wandered into a wooded lot |
| 0:46.0 | in the village of Lyndonhurst, a small suburban community on the southern shore of Long Island. |
| 0:52.0 | Approaching a local hangout known as the Hut, the boys dropped down into what was little more than a whole dug into the air. |
| 0:57.0 | And made a horrifying discovery. |
| 1:00.0 | There beneath a length of rolled up carpet, they found the body of 14-year-old Laura and Parker. |
| 1:06.0 | Laura had gone missing four months earlier, but despite the pleas of her parents, |
| 1:11.0 | neither law enforcement nor the local community had given her much attention. |
| 1:15.0 | Labeled to run away, Laura's parents hit roadblock after roadblock trying to get someone anyone to help them in their search for their daughter. |
| 1:24.0 | Then on that sticky September afternoon, they watched in horror as their child's skeletal remains were removed from that hole in the ground, |
| 1:32.0 | still covered in scraps of the clothing she'd worn the day she disappeared. |
| 1:36.0 | Despite the realization that Laura had never run away, the wall of silence grew only higher as investigators, |
| 1:42.0 | suddenly driven to find out what had happened, what rebuffed and dismissed by the community, |
| 1:47.0 | who appeared not only to want nothing to do with the case, but who showed almost no care or concern about the teenager murder just blocks from the school. |
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