Bump in the Night
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In 1996, Aimee Willard was home for the summer in Northern Pennsylvania. One night, her car was found abandoned on a highway off-ramp with blood on the nearby pavement. Investigators are left to figure out where she is... and what happened to her.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One |
| 0:08.1 | An A&E original podcast |
| 0:11.6 | This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault use your best judgment |
| 0:20.3 | Amy Willard was 22 in June of 1996 |
| 0:24.1 | She lived in Northern Philadelphia and was home for the summer |
| 0:27.2 | She would soon be starting her senior year of college at George Mason University where she played lacrosse |
| 0:34.2 | Amy was an active person and decided that over her break |
| 0:37.9 | She would take a course at the local community college and join a summer lacrosse league all while looking for a job |
| 0:49.9 | On Thursday June 20th |
| 0:51.6 | She visited Smoky's bar in Wayne, Pennsylvania and was seen leaving around 1 a.m. A |
| 0:57.9 | Little after 2 a.m. her car was found on an off ramp on a section of interstate 476 |
| 1:04.8 | Frequently referred to as the Blue Rout |
| 1:07.7 | The passenger door was open and the wrist blood on the pavement around the car |
| 1:12.4 | Lieutenant Lenny Bandit from the Pennsylvania State Police was the first investigator at the scene |
| 1:17.3 | The tires were all normally inflated so the presence of the tire iron struck me as unusual |
| 1:23.1 | And it's close proximity to the blood that heightened my sense of concern |
| 1:28.6 | Lieutenant Bandit called for backup and was joined at the scene by Corporal Allen Stewart |
| 1:34.3 | My main objective at that point was to try to get this |
| 1:37.3 | Everything photographed as quickly as I could to be able to collect that evidence before it got wet |
| 1:42.3 | Just as he finished collecting the last of the blood evidence it began to rain |
| 1:48.5 | The car was then towed to the state barracks garage for more testing |
| 1:53.1 | We didn't know what was going on at this point in time |
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