Six Decades - Carol Ann Dougherty

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The episode covers the decades-old, now-closed cold case of the 1962 rape and murder of nine-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty inside St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church in Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania. Carol Ann was attacked and strangled in the choir loft after stopping to pray. The case remained unsolved for over 60 years.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:13.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.6	A burger is fine, but listen, we've been thinking about familial DNA a lot lately.
0:22.1	I'm just wondering, like, have you ever submitted your DNA?
0:25.2	Pulling up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.4	Welcome to true crime to go.
0:33.6	I am John here with Jamie.
0:35.6	I hate being cut off, man.
0:36.9	For the love of everything holy, why do I have to do to get you to start covering cases on true crime to go that are light, that are nonviolence, that are, will lift people up?
0:50.0	The murder of a nine-year-old girl that went unsolved for almost 60 years is not important.
0:55.2	It's not a good time. It's important. Not fun, not fun. But it is, like you said, it's important.
1:01.6	And it is kind of tied into some things we've been talking about. So why don't you get us rolling?
1:06.0	We're going to Bristol, Borough, Pennsylvania. And that is where a case remained unsolved for more than 60 years.
1:14.5	That case was the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl named Carol Ann Daughery.
1:20.5	On October 22nd, 1962, Carol Ann rode her bicycle to return library books, and she stopped at the doors of St. Mark's
1:29.9	Roman Catholic Church to pray. Jamie, she never went home. Her death haunted her family and the
1:36.6	community. But now in 2025, the case has been formally closed, and there has been a grand jury indictment naming William Schrader as the perpetrator.
1:48.8	So what in the world happened?
1:50.8	Yeah, maybe there is some happiness here since we closed it.
1:53.7	I should have, I should have not buried the lead there.
1:56.4	I mean, it is still awful.
1:58.2	You're not wrong.
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