S18 Ep73: Child Last Seen: The Search For Patty Desmond w/ Maureen Boyle
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🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
ER CASE HAD BEEN CLOSED—BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she’d come home in a week or two.
The year was 1965. That night was the last time her family ever saw her. Conrad Eugene Miller was well-known to local law enforcement. An older married man with a child, Miller’s association with Patty was questionable at best. Yet he was the last person known to have seen her alive—and the suspect police continued to circle back toward.
After nothing but false sightings and rumors, the case was moved to the backburner—where it stayed. As decades crept by, reality sunk in: Patty Desmond was never coming back. Then, a tiny crack unleashed a flood of information, and a mystery long kept unraveled.
Author Maureen Boyle joins True Crime Tuesday to go further in-depth in this story and it's characters and tell us why the community forgot Patty not once, but twice!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Madison True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.2 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.5 | Today is a very interesting show, folks. |
| 0:32.8 | What happens with cold cases? |
| 0:34.3 | A lot of times, those cold cases go by the wayside and they don't get solved. |
| 0:39.6 | Sometimes you get a brave person that will come forward and will give information that |
| 0:44.2 | will get that cold case solved other times. |
| 0:47.2 | It takes forensics. |
| 0:49.1 | It takes hard science to come up with an answer for those cold cases. |
| 0:55.2 | We have an interesting story today with our guest, Marine Boyle, in that some of that |
| 1:00.1 | science, someone brave coming forward in a combination of some things. |
| 1:06.0 | Get the job done and get justice for one young lady who would have gone by the wayside |
| 1:12.7 | and might have even been forgotten to the stories of history or just to history in general |
| 1:20.7 | and would have been a sad story. |
| 1:22.9 | Had it not been for the courage of some people that we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:29.0 | Marine Boyle is an award-winning journalist who had been a crime reporter in New England |
| 1:34.5 | for decades. |
| 1:35.9 | She earned a number of national and regional awards for her writing and reporting, including |
| 1:40.6 | being named New England Journalists of the Year three times. |
| 1:43.7 | She's the author of three books, including Shalograves, The Hunt for the New Bedford |
| 1:47.6 | Highway Serial Killer, which was honored by the Public Safety Writers Association. |
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