Doe ID Carl Bryant

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Episode 159 Doe ID Carl Bryant

Warning: this episode explicitly addresses child abuse and murder.

In 1972, the brutally beaten body of a young child was found in a shallow creek in Fairfax County, VA. Little John Lorton Doe was unidentified and unclaimed, and was buried in a local cemetery by a church group. Investigators over the decades never forgot the little boy, and when cold case detective Melissa Wallace took on the case, she used mere iotas of rootless hairs, cutting edge DNA technology, and IGG to identify him as four year old Carl Matthew Bryant. But the story of Carl Bryant, killed at the hands of an abuser, became even more shocking when it was revealed that he was not the only one.

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2:39.7	On June 13, 1972, a 14-year-old boy in Lorton, Virginia, needed air in his bike tire.
2:46.9	He wheeled his bike in the direction of the local gas station on the country road near his home,
2:51.1	and the route took him across the very small, low Colchester Bridge.
2:55.3	Looking over the railing, the teen saw a small child's body in shallow Massey Creek under the bridge.
3:01.2	The boy quickly approached a nearby Washington Gas and Light Company worker and told him what he'd seen.
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