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Who Killed...?

Beth Doe... a Four Decade Mystery

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On December 20th, 1976, a dismembered body was discovered underneath a 300 foot bridge in Eastern Pennsylvania. Her identity and her killer would go unknown for 44 years. Join me this week for Who Killed Beth Doe aka Evelyn Colon.SOURCES:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CiF0xvmew"MEDIA RELEASE #1956, UNIDENTIFIED BETH DOE AND FEMALE FETUS, EAST SIDE BOROUGH, CARBON COUNTY, PA”https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86600375/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86600758/CNN.Suspect arrested in the death of a teenage girl who disappeared in 1976.(CNN) Evelyn Colon was one of five siblings in Jersey City, New Jersey, when she got pregnant in 1976 at age 15 by her 19-year-old boyfriend....Apr 3, 2021https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-beth-doe-murder-solved-20210401-ngxt4d6xirbzrkzpmbv4mdfe7y-story.htmlhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=1364992https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Missing_and_Exploited_Childrenhttps://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/ny-man-63-charged-in-decades-old-homicide/article_1ac00b3a-9256-11eb-8708-07b53fe6d4b5.htmlhttp://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-carbon-county-beth-doe-20141129-story.html#page=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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See terms and conditions at airfrance.us. It's been more than four decades in the making. Police have a man in custody, this in connection to a cold case dating all the way back to the 70s. WBRE, WIOU, eyewitness news reporter Nicole Rogers live in Carbon County tonight with new details on how investigators solve the mystery. Nicole?

0:55.0

In December of 1976, a boy was walking in this river bank across the river right behind me

1:04.0

when he noticed an open suitcase containing a human head.

1:08.0

Nearly 45 years later, police have identified the two bodies found

1:12.5

that day and have a suspect in custody. A 14-year-old boy was walking under the I-80

1:19.9

bridges over the Lehigh River in 1976 when he found an open suitcase containing a human head. He was telling me about, you know, that they went down to the river to play and they found these

1:33.3

suitcases and they opened the suitcase up and, you know, then they found the body.

1:39.3

The discovery led police to two other suitcases containing the rest of her body and a nine-month-old fetus.

1:47.0

After nearly 45 years, by using computer imaging and new technology, investigators finally put a name to the face.

1:55.0

Police say she was Evelyn Cologne of New Jersey. She was 15 years old at the time. Dolly Mon lives less than a mile from where the body parts were found. She says she remembers it like it was yesterday.

2:08.6

When I came at the door and it was a cop and wondered to know if I had seen anything, you know. And it's ironic because my son and the young fella, Kenny

2:20.3

Jumper that found her, they were trapping and they would take turns checking their traps.

2:28.3

She says she couldn't imagine if it would have been her son's turn that day.

2:33.3

I'm kind of glad in the way that my son wasn't one of them, you know, by himself, because

2:39.0

that must have been very traumatic.

2:41.0

Mon says she lost hope in ever finding out whose body was left by her home, let alone

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