Chapter 1 - The crime

Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

True Crime, Documentary, Exhibit C, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Three days after Christmas in 1978, Elizabeth Andes was one of the few students on Miami University’s Oxford campus. Most students were home for winter break, but Beth – a recent graduate – was in town packing up her apartment so she could move to Cincinnati for her first big job. That day, she treated herself by buying a fancy pair of leather boots to celebrate her successes. But she never got to wear them. Instead, her boyfriend, Bob Young, reported finding her lifeless body in the apartment they had shared during their last semester of college together. Police and prosecutors considered the death an open-and-shut case, zeroing in immediately on Young. But Beth’s friends never thought things were quite so simple. Through this podcast, The Enquirer will lay out its investigation into the cold case in hopes of finally figuring out who got it wrong nearly 40 years ago – police or the jury? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	On December 31, 1997, at a New Year's Eve party, Cheryl Shepherd was proposed to on-live
0:07.6	TV.
0:08.6	Two days later, she disappeared and was never seen again.
0:14.4	Post David Ritchand heads to Hamilton, Ontario to investigate the case.
0:19.6	Someone knows something, season 2.
0:22.8	Subscribe and iTunes for your favorite podcast app.
0:30.0	Thank you, Mr. Cole, I killed him.
0:40.8	We tried everything possible to get him help.
0:45.3	It sounds like there's a lot of missing pieces that weren't followed up on, and I'm probably
0:52.7	one of them.
0:56.2	He wasn't let me out of there until I confessed to it.
1:02.8	Sometimes the truth is more important than justice, you know?
1:06.2	About 111,000 documented full cases in the United States as we speak right now.
1:13.2	Do you think all those parents and all those are going to get fair justice?
1:19.0	Hell-am-lo?
1:23.8	I'm Amber Hunt and this is Accused, the Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes.
1:30.2	In some ways I feel like a stalker.
1:32.5	For nearly a year I've been tracking every waking moment, every conversation, every move
1:38.0	of a woman named Elizabeth Wells Andes.
1:41.5	I never met her, but I have her picture on my wall and my desktop and my cell phone.
1:46.6	I know her face so well that when I flipped through a yearbook and saw an uncaption side
1:50.8	profile picture of her as a freshman in high school, I recognized her right away.
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