Jennifer Fay-disappeared after a party, police treated it as a runaway, big mistake

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Send us a text Jennifer Fay, a beautiful 16yr old disappeared from hardscrabble Brockton, Massachusetts in November 1989. She attended a series of parties in her neighborhood, she never returned. The police lost precious time treating the case as a runaway. The Fay's were told the police were coming to the house with a trained police dog and an evidence collection team. They NEVER came. Jennifer was last seen talking to what is described as an older man, who was sitting in a brown pick up tru...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
0:10.4	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:15.6	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour
0:20.4	of the hub of the universe,
0:22.8	Boston, Massachusetts.
0:24.7	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:27.6	My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host.
0:30.2	I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called
0:35.4	Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:38.4	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:44.4	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:49.8	Hey guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:52.9	Just a bit of housekeeping stuff. We did an episode on Dr.
0:56.3	Richard Sharp last week. I just wanted a touch base. I'm getting a lot of positive feedback on it.
1:02.2	And it seems to do with the fact that most people didn't know that Richard Sharp had been severely abused as a kid.
1:09.9	And as typically happens, stereotypically actually,
1:14.6	the abused becomes the abuser. Richard was turned into a monster, I believe. And that time
1:20.6	he suffered that abuse, gave him some mental illnesses, and that was all exacerbated by his pill usage and his alcohol
1:29.7	usage. And he might have just been a run-of-the-mill ass otherwise, but I do believe his abuse
1:35.8	caused him to be what he is. It certainly doesn't excuse what he did on any level.
1:41.5	All right, guys, we're on to our episode for this week. This week's episode
1:45.4	centers around Jennifer Fay of Brockton, and she disappeared in 1989, and she was 16 years old.
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