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A 2000 New Jersey murder leads to more questions than answers.
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0:16.1 | That's patreon.com slash ghost town pod. Last dance. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb. And this is Ghost Town. Just 25 miles outside of the city is Douglasville, the notorious and complicated strip club |
0:48.4 | capital of Philadelphia. Like many who commute there, Douglasville itself leads an illicit |
0:53.8 | double life. By day, it exists as a |
0:56.4 | quiet, oaken township on the shores of the historic Skukhill River, but by night, the neon lights |
1:02.7 | promised Philadelphians a debauchous buffet of strong drinks, sexy dancers, and X-rated escapes. |
1:10.6 | While Douglasville's dichotomies might be lost on those looking for a simple |
1:14.4 | night of fun, insiders know to proceed with caution. An innocent dance can quickly turn deadly. Today on Ghost Town, |
1:23.5 | the murder of dancer Rachel Siani. On Saturday, April 1st, 2000, New Jersey State Police's 911 dispatch received a call from Richard Scott, an ATV rider who spotted a body underneath the New Jersey Turnpike Bridge. |
1:39.1 | Detective John Villamil of the New Jersey State Police immediately headed to the scene. |
1:43.9 | There he found a body lying |
1:45.6 | face down. The victim was a Caucasian woman with brown hair, approximately 20 to 30 years old, and 100 |
1:53.0 | pounds. She wore a patterned sweater, blue jeans, a silver butterfly necklace, and white socks. |
2:00.2 | At first glance, Villamil feels like this body appeared |
2:02.9 | out of nowhere. There are no tire tracks or drag marks near the body, and the victim has no personal |
2:08.5 | identification. Furthermore, the victim's white socks are pristine, a strange detail given that she's been |
2:15.4 | found on an all-terrain vehicle path underneath a busy |
2:19.4 | bridge. Detective Villamil then heads to the upper bridge deck, which tells a completely different |
2:25.1 | story. There he notices pops of colored fabric on the path below. Fibers from the victim's |
2:31.1 | sweater lodged between the two concrete slabs, along with bloodstains spattered on the side of the retaining wall, almost directly above the body. |
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