Olivia Thorndike
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Olivia Thorndike had been a 24-year-old young woman living in Henrico County, whose life came to a sudden and tragic end in November of 1981. While detectives and prosecutors had their suspicions about a couple of men in Olivia's orbit, they were never able to build a convincing case against either.
Nearly forty years later, Olivia's case remains unsolved, but some people continue to search for justice (those that knew Olivia, and those that never had the chance). Tragically, that means that there's not a lot of information out there about Olivia, but I've been able to learn a lot about the two violent men that revolved around her in the weeks and months before her death...
Episode hosted, produced, and research/writing by Micheal Whelan
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| 0:00.0 | On October 2nd, 2019, a post was made on Reddit by the user RebelsGum77. |
| 0:17.2 | Specifically, it was opposed in the true crime subreddit, and it was a picture of a newspaper |
| 0:22.3 | clipping for a classified section, which read as follows. |
| 0:26.2 | On September 7th, Olivia Thornbeik would have celebrated her 62nd birthday. |
| 0:31.6 | Unfortunately, she never got to see her 25th birthday, due to being stalked and murdered. |
| 0:37.6 | You know who you are. |
| 0:38.9 | I know who you are. |
| 0:40.4 | You have information needed to close this case and to give Olivia and her family peace. |
| 0:45.3 | Do the right thing for once in your life. |
| 0:47.9 | Call the Henrico Police and accept your responsibility for her death. |
| 0:52.5 | In the comments below the post. |
| 0:54.3 | The original post or identified the newspaper as having come from Henrico County, Virginia. |
| 0:59.3 | In a comment, a user mentioned that someone should make a podcast about this story. |
| 1:03.9 | A responding comment then directed them towards my podcast and linked my Reddit username. |
| 1:09.8 | It wasn't until the following morning. |
| 1:12.0 | October 3rd, that I finally saw the post and began to do some slight research into the |
| 1:17.1 | story. |
| 1:18.1 | I did some cursory googling and digging through some newspaper archives and quickly discovered |
| 1:23.8 | that there was unfortunately very little out there about a woman named Olivia Thornbeik. |
| 1:28.2 | Or her murder. |
| 1:29.2 | There were a couple of newspaper articles from 1981, which directly reported her murder |
| 1:34.2 | that November. |
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