MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Holly Bartlett

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On a cold day in March 2010, workers discovered a woman lying unconscious under the MacKay Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - barely breathing and clinging to life. It was 31-year-old Holly Bartlett. Police say she walked almost a quarter of a mile from the front door of her condo building, where she crawled through a hole in a barbed wire fence, climbed a 20ft concrete cable abutment, and fell to the frozen ground below. But that theory makes no sense to Holly’s friends and family, who spend the next ten years trying to understand what happened to Holly Bartlett.

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I am your host, Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today,
0:09.2	buckle up. It is a long one, but it's one that I think is going to stay with you, because it has
0:17.1	stayed with me since I first heard about it. It takes place back in March 2010 when a young woman is
0:25.2	found clinging to life on the cold ground under a bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
0:32.6	The police investigation that started at that moment was short. I mean, to them, it's obvious what
0:38.0	happened. But her friends and family, they disagree with the police's theory of what happened
0:43.7	that night. And more than a decade later, they still disagree. This is the story of the mysterious
0:51.6	death of Holly Bartlett.
1:22.6	It's a cold Saturday morning in March 2010, and a metalworking crew is headed down to the base of
1:31.6	the McCay Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This is on Canada's east coast. It is a freezing cold day,
1:38.5	minus 10 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind shell. And this is very early in the
1:45.3	morning, like the sun is just coming up. The Bridge Commissioner opens the gate for the crew,
1:52.0	and when they go inside, they notice almost immediately something red on the ground near the bridge
1:59.2	abutments. Now, abutments are these like enormous concrete wedges, essentially, that connect the
2:06.0	bridge cables to the ground. So as they walk closer, they realize what they're seeing is a person.
2:14.2	It's a woman. And at first, they think that she must be dead. But as they get closer, they realize
2:20.6	she's still breathing unconscious, but she is alive. One of the guys quickly wraps his jacket around
2:27.8	her, and they run back to the bridge commissioner to call 911. Police and paramedics arrive within
2:34.5	minutes, and the woman is rushed to the hospital. Her face is covered in bruises, and she has cuts on
2:40.7	her hands and knees. Not only that, but she'd been out there in the cold so long that she's
2:46.9	dangerously hypothermic. The woman's purse had been lying on the ground next to her, and when
2:52.4	police look inside, they see no wallet, no phone. But there is a student ID, and that tells them
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