"Her life was unfortunately cut very short"

The Daily Crime

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Investigators in Columbia, S.C., are asking for tips in the case of a woman who was killed inside her home in 1972. News19 Reporter Peyton Lewis tells us about the 50-year-old cold case and new information that police have made public. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up. Her and her husband were really ready to settle down and build their lives along with the Riley family legacy in that neighborhood.
0:09.4	And her life was unfortunately cut very short. For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson. You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:21.0	Originally, deputies have released more information now in connection with a cold case
0:25.0	murder investigation that dates all the way back to 1972.
0:29.3	They're hoping somebody somewhere has the answers they're looking for.
0:33.2	Beatrice Riley was killed in 1972, and her family still has no clue who killed her.
0:39.4	Five decades after she was murdered, family members are still hopeful that investigators
0:43.5	and the release of new information can help solve her case.
0:51.3	I'm joined by Peyton Lewis, a reporter at WLTX News 19 in Columbia, South Carolina.
0:56.1	Peyton, thanks for being here with us.
0:57.2	Thank you for having me, Will.
0:58.3	It's nice to talk to you.
0:59.7	Take us back to 1972 and what we know about what happened to Beatrice Riley.
1:03.4	Absolutely.
1:04.3	So Beatrice Riley was actually around my age.
1:07.7	She was just 23 years old, had just gotten married to the love of her life, and
1:13.0	hadn't even celebrated her first wedding anniversary yet when she was found dead.
1:19.4	And where was she found dead? And what, if anything, did investigators uncover at the time?
1:23.3	So she was found dead along her home. It was a small trailer home on Harlem Street here,
1:31.1	which is kind of a main area and sort of a historic black neighborhood in Columbia. And
1:37.9	she lived there, but they found her body driven across the street and dumped in the woods along Atlas Road,
1:48.0	which is a connecting street to Harlem, two weeks after she was announced missing.
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