One River, Two Bodies
America's Crime Lab
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A trucker calls police to report seeing a body floating in a Mississippi River. When police arrive to investigate, they’re shocked to find a little girl dead in the river brush. They’re even more startled when they find the body of a young man down river a few days later.
America’s Crime Lab is a true crime podcast about how science solves cold cases, missing persons, and other unsolved cases. Hosted by journalist and clinical psychologist Elin Lantz Lesser, and powered by Othram’s forensic DNA lab, the show connects the science to the story, revealing what really happens in the lab and why it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | It was almost like a cold case |
| 0:18.0 | inside of a cold case investigation. And it took on the life of its own. |
| 0:26.6 | In 1982, two bodies were found almost right next to each other. |
| 0:31.6 | No one knew who these people were, or how they ended up dead in the same location. |
| 0:36.6 | Would finding the identity of one victim lead them to the other? |
| 0:45.3 | For nearly 40 years, investigators tried everything to hunt down their names and find out what happened to them. |
| 0:53.3 | This is America's Crime Lab. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm Alyn Lance Lesser. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm here with producer Catherine Fenlosa. |
| 1:06.2 | And I got to say, this seems like a little different from other cases we've talked about. |
| 1:12.9 | What's the story? |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, so this all starts in Moss Point, Mississippi. |
| 1:21.4 | And Moss Point is between Balexie and Mobile, Alabama. |
| 1:27.5 | And it's right down by the Gulf. |
| 1:31.9 | Now, one morning in early December of 1982, |
| 1:36.6 | a truck driver is driving along a major interstate there, |
| 1:39.7 | which is the I-10. |
| 1:41.6 | And the I-10 runs all the way from Florida to California. Okay, I can picture it. |
| 1:48.7 | The highway goes over these different tributaries, which ultimately flow into the Gulf. And |
| 1:54.0 | on this day, the trucker is driving along, and he glances out his window, and he thinks he |
| 1:59.5 | sees the body of a woman floating in the water. |
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