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Cold Case Files

Bump in the Night

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K 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. Check out our great sponsors! Shopify: Go to shopify.com/coldcase for a FREE 14 day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features! LifeLock: Join now and save up to 25% off your first year at LifeLock.com/coldcase Purple: Get 10% off any order of $200 or more at Purple.com/coldcase10 and use code "coldcase10" Talkspace: Match with a licensed therapist when you go to talkspace.com and get $100 off your first month with the promo code COLDCASE SimpliSafe: Get 20% off your system and your first month of monitoring service FREE when you enroll in Interactive Monitoring at Simplisafe.com/coldcase

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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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