Doe ID 'Beth Doe' Evelyn Colon
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
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Summary
When a dismembered body was found in 3 suitcases along the Lehigh River in Carbon County in December, 1976, it began a decades long mystery. When investigators combed the area where the body had been found, they also discovered the body of a fetus; that of an almost full term baby girl.
An ME concluded that the body belonged to a young woman who was in her teens or early 20s, and that the baby found nearby was hers. The woman who was dubbed 'Beth Doe' had been shot and strangled prior to being dismembered, and according to the ME, it had happened just prior to the remains being discovered. With no ID to go on, police searched for missing women and girls who fit Beth Doe's description in PA and neighboring states, and despite clues to work with including very speicifc dental history, they came up empty. Beth Doe and her baby girl were laid to rest in a local cemetery, and for decades, local people visited their grave to pay their respects.
Finally, advances in DNA, and genealogy allowed investigators to finally learn the identity of Beth Doe. Her name was Evelyn Colon, and she went missing from Jersey City, NJ in 1976 when she was just 15 years old. When her family was tracked down, they told investigators how she had suddenly vanished after becoming pregnant. They also were able to give them the name of her baby's father who she had lived with prior to vanishing; Luis Sierra. Sierra had sent a letter to Evelyn's family after she vanished saying she was okay and living her life. In reality, she had been found dead by this point alongside their baby in Pennsylvania. Sierra was arrested in New York where he had been living, and charged with murder. He is currently awaiting trial.
Beth Doe' finally has her name again; it's Evelyn Colon, and this is her story.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to DNAID. |
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| 0:05.3 | Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network, |
| 0:09.7 | including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac speaking, |
| 0:16.4 | Beyond Bizarre True Crime, Citizen Detective, and Campus Killings. |
| 0:21.9 | All of these podcasts are available for you to binge on right now, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:27.4 | Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The On Monday, December 20th, 1976, around 4.30 p.m., 14-year-old Kenny Jumper was checking a trap line he had set on the riverbank on the east side of the Lehigh River in East Side Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:23.3 | The boy was in the woods on an old access road that ended at the riverbank below the exceedingly high I-80 bridge spanning the Lehigh River, |
| 1:32.0 | and there he came upon an open black suitcase right near the base of one of the massive bridge supports. |
| 1:39.3 | A human head lay against a rock spilled out of the gaping bag. |
| 1:46.8 | Kenny had been to this spot several times. |
| 1:52.0 | The last time had been December 12th, eight days earlier. There had certainly not been a head and suitcase then. Kenny ran to his house on tannery road just 300 yards away and told his older |
| 1:58.5 | brother Richard what he'd seen. Richard, who was 19, undoubtedly was |
| 2:02.7 | skeptical of his little brother's story. He went over to the spot and looked for himself. Then he |
| 2:08.0 | walked back home and called the state police at Troop End in nearby Hazleton. There were three |
| 2:14.3 | suitcases in all, and they all contained body parts. The sex of the dismembered body whose parts were in the bags could not immediately be determined. But the sex of the nearly full-term fetus, which was lying in weeds 10 feet east of one of the bags, was evident. It was a baby girl. Based on where the suitcases were found, about 20 feet from the river's edge under the |
| 2:36.1 | bridge, it was not a leap to conclude that someone passing over the Lehigh River via the I-80 |
| 2:42.1 | bridge had tossed the bags over the westbound side, aiming for the waterway below. |
| 2:47.8 | This from the Hazleton Standard Speaker, quote, |
| 2:50.7 | The impact of the 300-foot fall broke two of |
| 2:54.1 | the suitcases open, scattering the head, torso, and the fetus. The third suitcase, which remained intact, |
| 3:01.1 | contained the arms and legs, end quote. That third suitcase, unlike the first two found on the wooded river bank, was found on |
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