DNA ID Replay Susan Negersmith

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Ep172 DNA ID Replay Susan Negersmith

While Jess is on winter break preparing new episodes of DNA ID for 2026, we are airing some of our favorite one part episodes weekly in what we call 'DNA ID Replay' episodes. These Replay episodes will air every week while on break with the exception of Christmas week. In this episode, we explore the case of Susan Negersmith which originally aired in episode 74.

In 1990, 20 year old college student Susan Negersmith went to beach town Wildwood, NJ with friends for Memorial Day weekend. Her body was found behind a local restaurant, half naked, shoeless, bloody, riddled with injuries, and with visible marks on her throat. Someone had taken pains to ensure she was obscured from view of passersby – yet her death was ruled an accident. It took her father 6 years to get her death certificate changed to reflect that her death was a homicide – but by that time, the damage was done. Even forensic genealogy, with its wondrous power to provide answers, may not be able to deliver justice for Susan Negersmith.

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0:27.4	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The It was 1990.
1:23.6	Susan Negersmith was hitting the beach for the weekend with her friends.
1:28.2	The group was staying in a motel in Party Central Wildwood, New Jersey, on Cape May for the
1:33.4	Memorial Day weekend. The beach town was roiling with young people blowing off steam for the three-day
1:38.8	summer kickoff, and people spilled out of bars and staggered back to their hotels at all hours.
1:45.1	Susan was no different.
1:52.0	The 20-year-old had checked into the Sonata Motel around 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, after traveling from her hometown of Kent, New York. She was with a group of six other young folks, and they were in
1:57.5	town to celebrate the end of their year at college. We don't have details about
2:02.4	what Susan and her friends did on Saturday. Presumably they spent the day at the beach. That night,
2:07.8	Susan and her friends were hanging out at the motel drinking and smoking a joint or two.
2:12.2	But Susan got restless and wanted to get out. She said goodbye to her friends, saying she was going out
2:17.2	to hit the strip.
2:18.6	She left the Sonata Motel sometime between 9 and 10 p.m.
2:23.2	On Sunday morning, May 27th, around 10 a.m., Evangelos G., a cook at Schellinger's restaurant on East
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