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Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder

Ep. 74 | How Internet Sleuths Solved a 35 Year Old Case

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder

Kallmekris

True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

For over three decades, a nameless girl haunted the fields of upstate New York. She was known only by the place she was found, a small farming community that would never forget her. This is the story of how a chance discovery in 1979 launched one of America's most enduring mysteries and how a new generation of investigators and internet sleuths refused to let her be forgotten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

For over three decades, a nameless girl haunted the fields of upstate New York.

0:05.3

She was known only by the place where she was found, a small farming community that would never forget her.

0:11.5

This is the story of how a chance discovery in 1979 launched one of America's most enduring mysteries,

0:18.8

and how a new generation of investigators and internet

0:22.6

sleuths refused to let her be forgotten.

0:25.6

Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder, all things that I love to consume,

0:30.6

and I know you do too, you sick, twisted, intellectually, beautiful-minded...

0:35.6

Today we are talking about a crazy cold case

0:40.9

that once again, internet sleuths swooped in

0:44.9

and did some incredible work.

0:47.5

So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts,

0:49.6

go mock-fired on the highway, slam on the brakes,

0:51.2

and bustle this windshield into this cold case together.

1:08.2

Music on the highway, slam on the brakes and bust through this wind shield into this cold case together. On a brisk autumn morning in 1979, a quiet farming community in upstate New York awoke to a harrowing discovery.

1:15.9

In a rain-soaked cornfield just off U.S. Route 20, outside the village of Caledonia, a local farmer checking the fields stumbled upon what he first thought was perhaps a trespassing hunter in a red jacket.

1:29.2

But as he drew closer, his heart sank, because it was the lifeless body of a girl, face down

1:35.3

amid the cornstalks. And she had no identification on her, and it was immediately clear she had

1:41.4

met a violent end. And the farmer phoned the Livingston County Sheriff's Office, setting in motion a mystery that

1:48.3

would haunt the region for decades.

1:50.7

So when police arrived at the scene on what would later be recorded as November 10th,

1:55.2

1979, they noted that the girl was young, but they didn't know what her age was exactly at this point,

2:02.1

and they knew that she had been shot. And this girl died by two gunshot wounds. One was a shot

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