DOE ID; 'Granby Girl' Patricia Ann Tucker

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Episode 77 DOE ID; 'Granby Girl' Patricia Ann Tucker

In November, 1978, the unidentified remains of a woman were found in a logging area in Granby, Massachusetts. Police determined that the woman, who was estimated to be in her 20's, had been shot in the head and was a homicide victim. A belt was found wrapped around her neck, an indication that the killer had used it to drag the body to where it was found. Police were not able to link the unidentified woman to any local missing persons cases, and she was dubbed 'Granby Girl'. She was laid to rest in a grave marked 'unknown'.

Decades later, armed with advancements in DNA & forensic genealogy, investigators exhumed Granby Girl's body in an attempt to finally ID her. Using genealogy, it was determined that 'Granby Girl' was actually Patricia Ann Tucker who was last known to be living on the shore of Lake Pocotopaug in East Hampton, Connecticut with her husband, Gerald Coleman. Patricia was last seen when her and her husband Gerald dropped off her son Matthew at a friend's home in Chicopee, Massachusetts in August 1978. They told the friend that they would be back soon after looking for an apartment, but never returned. CPS was called in by the friend to pick up Matthew, but for some reason, a search for Patricia was never initiated. Gerald Coleman never reported his wife missing, and it came to light that he had a troubling criminal record. He died in prison for an unrelated crime, and he remains at the top of the police suspect list as they try and close Patricia's murder case.

Anyone with information about the case of Patricia Ann Tucker, or her husband Gerald Coleman, is asked to call Granby Police at 413-467-9222 or email [email protected] or visit the Granbypd.org website.

Eventually. DNA & genealogy gave 'Granby Girl' her name back. She was Patricia Ann Tucker 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, including
0:10.1	The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac Speaking, Beyond Bizarr True Crime, Citizen Detective, and Campus Killings.
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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 This Doe case is unusual in that the original police reports are so spotty, it's not clear who actually found the human remains that came to be known as Granby Girl.
1:17.6	All the early newspaper reports at the time tell the same story, that a man, hired by a private property owner to cut firewood in a wooded area of Granby, Massachusetts,
1:28.4	found the skeletal remains of a girl or young woman.
1:31.9	However, there is a name in the scant police file of a girl who, at the time, on Wednesday,
1:38.0	November 15, 1978, claimed to be playing in the woods with some other kids when around 5 p.m. they saw bones sticking out
1:46.5	from under leaves beneath a fallen log. So it's unclear which story is true, but what we do know
1:52.6	to be true is that human bones were found in the woods and a 40-plus year mystery began.
1:59.8	Authorities called to the scene said they couldn't tell at first whether the
2:02.7	remains were a man or a woman. There was no identification of any sort on the body or at the scene.
2:08.8	Furthermore, the body was badly decomposed, almost completely skeletonized. However, clothing still
2:15.2	clinging to the remains and long brown hair found attached to the skull
2:19.3	led to theories that it was a woman.
2:23.6	The body was removed and later the medical examiner determined that all the parts had been
2:28.5	located and recovered to ride her funeral home in South Hadley Falls.
2:33.4	An autopsy was conducted there by forensic
2:35.3	pathologist George Katsis, with observation of the procedure by the medical examiner Dr. William
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