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Already Gone Podcast

BONUS - The murder of Connie Kaye Crossland

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In 1963, Connie ran away from a juvenile home seeking the bright lights of Woodward Avenue.

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Written by Charity Dodd and Nina Innsted. Audio production by Bill Bert.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours.

0:04.0

Right now there is no trace.

0:06.0

Investigators say evidence lead them to believe that she's dead.

0:09.0

Stick my nose back on the trail. That's all I can do.

0:13.0

This is already gone.

0:15.0

Already gone.

0:17.0

Already.

0:18.0

Already. All ready. Today, we're looking back at a case from the summer of 1963, the tragic and still unsolved

0:31.6

murder of Connie K. Crossland.

0:34.5

On the morning of July 18, 1963, a truck driver from Detroit told police he initially noticed a girl's leg sticking out from under the bridge on Clarkston Road, near Bald Mountain Park, about 11 miles northeast of the city of Pontiac.

0:50.4

What he had found was the body of Connie K. Crossland, laying face down in the shallow waters of Paint Creek.

0:57.0

And unfortunately, I can't tell you if Connie was 14 or 15 years old, that information is not readily available.

1:06.0

But I think we can all agree that she was too young to be out hitchhiking and enjoying the nightlife and cruising culture along Woodward Avenue in the 1960s.

1:16.6

The identification of Connie fell to her grieving parents,

1:34.1

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rickett of Corona, Michigan.

1:38.4

Clarence was Connie's stepfather, and the scene was unbearable.

1:43.1

Connie's mother collapsed upon seeing her daughter

1:45.7

and had to be carried out on a stretcher and taken home by ambulance.

1:53.2

Frank Suchy, the truck driver who made the grim discovery,

1:57.2

also reported a puzzling detail to the police.

2:00.8

He stated he had initially noticed what appeared to be a girl's leg,

2:04.8

and at the same time, he saw an old man sitting in a light blue 1961 or 62 Dodge that was

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