Episode 440: Dorothy Jane Scott

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dorothy Jane Scott was a 32-year-old single mother from Anaheim, California, whose mysterious disappearance and murder in 1980 remain unsolved to this day. On May 28, she vanished after leaving a hospital where she had taken a coworker for treatment—her car was later found burning in an alley, but she was nowhere to be found. For years, Dorothy’s family received chilling phone calls from an anonymous man who claimed to love her and admitted to killing her, revealing details only the killer could know. In 1984, her charred remains were discovered near Santa Ana Canyon Road, but the cause of death could not be determined. Despite an extensive investigation and haunting clues, no suspect was ever identified. Click here to join our Patreon. Click here to get your own Inhuman merch. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys?
0:01.4	I'm Andrea.
0:02.7	And I'm Haley.
0:04.4	And you're listening to Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Welcome back, everybody.
0:30.5	Today's case is a suggested case.
0:34.7	It is a case that is sadly unsolved.
0:42.1	It's a pretty old case, too, and it's one that I don't think that I had heard of.
0:47.1	It did sound very familiar, but I think it's just very similar to some other cases.
0:53.1	Okay.
0:54.0	But this is the story of Dorothy Jane Scott.
0:59.4	Dorothy Jane Scott was born on April, April 23rd,
1:03.9	1948 in McKeysport, Pennsylvania to Jacob and Vera Scott.
1:12.0	When she was a child, her parents relocated her and her brother, Jim, to Anaheim, California.
1:19.5	Shout out Disneyland.
1:21.0	Woohoo.
1:23.1	Dorothy spent most of her childhood and early adulthood in Anaheim, and, you know, she went to school there.
1:31.3	And once she became an adult, she later met a man named Dennis Terry.
1:37.2	And together they had a son named Sean Jacob Scott.
1:41.7	For reasons unknown, Dorothy and Dennis's relationship did not last, and he eventually
1:47.7	relocated to Missouri and was reportedly not very active in his son's life.
1:55.3	I think there was still like communication between Dorothy and Dennis, but he wasn't, you know, obviously he's living in a totally different state. It's not really close by. So for whatever reason, he just kind of didn't have much to do with his son. Okay. Dorothy being a single mother, she decided to move in with her aunt in her home in Stanton, California.
2:22.3	And Dorothy's parents, Jacob and Vera, they lived really close by, and they often helped Dorothy take care of Sean while she worked.
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