MEDICAL-EXAMINER'S NIGHTMARE: WOMAN IN THE FREEZER

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

31-year-old Elizabeth Sullivan was reported missing in 2014. Her body is found two years later in the San Diego Bay. Where has she been in the meantime? Investigators conduct a thorough search of her home. Forensic tests find Elizabeth Sullivan’s blood soaked into the wooden floor in her bedroom and the carpeting. A major clue however, a police cadaver dog reacts to a spot in the Sullivan garage where a refrigerator-freezer stood for several years. Joe Scot Morgan, Professor of Forensics at Jacksonville State University, and former death scene investigator explains how this discovery impacted the investigation.

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0:00.0	This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:07.0	I'm executive producer Jackie Howard.
0:16.0	32 year old Elizabeth Sullivan was last seen October 13th near her home in San Diego, California.
0:24.0	She met with an attorney that day arranging to visit the lawyers office the next day.
0:29.0	That night, Elizabeth Sullivan called a friend in Virginia that never used her cell phone again.
0:35.0	She also did not show up at the attorney's office the next day.
0:39.0	Two years later, the police get a phone call.
0:42.0	Listened NBC7.
0:44.0	Big mystery tonight in the waters of San Diego Bay.
0:46.0	Police found a woman's body on the shore of the Liberty Station channel.
0:50.0	NBC7's Dave Summers is there with what might make this investigation quite challenging, Dave.
0:56.0	Well, the channel runs along NTC park, Mark and Catherine.
1:00.0	It's a popular spot to walk your dog cycle, played soccer just about anything outdoors.
1:05.0	But San Diego police were called here on a grizzly errand.
1:08.0	A woman's body was found in the water behind me.
1:11.0	Elizabeth Sullivan's decomposing body was found just half a mile from her home floating in the San Diego Bay.
1:18.0	She had been missing for two years, but a former San Diego County deputy medical examiner
1:23.0	who helped conduct the autopsy says decomposition made it difficult to narrow down her time of death.
1:29.0	It also led to another conclusion.
1:32.0	The medical examiner did not believe that Elizabeth Sullivan had been in the bay for the two years she was missing.
1:39.0	He said the decomposition would have been more advanced.
1:42.0	The autopsy showed that Elizabeth's body was decomposing in a way that indicated that she had lane for some time on one side.
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