Slain In The Sammamish Slough
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
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Episode 282 is dedicated to True Crime Historian patron Vivia Boe, who requested an episode from her hometown, Bothell, Washington. In scouring the archives, I found this tragic story that takes place in the vicinity. It’s usually hard to get a full episode from an unsolved case as there’s usually no resolution and a good story needs an ending. This one has a lot of middle, to be sure, as law enforcement thrashes around and blames every man in town for the poor girl’s death. They finally charge a guy, but the evidence is thin. One clue still bugs me, tho. How do you explain the missing tooth?
Culled from the historic pages of the Seattle Daily Times and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.5 | Every town and settlement on the east side of Lake Washington has been interested the last two weeks in the disappearance of Letty Whitehall. |
| 0:18.9 | There was no better-known student in Kirkland High School, |
| 0:22.1 | and none prettier than the little dark-eyed brunette girl, |
| 0:25.5 | none more popular among fellow pupils and teachers. |
| 0:29.5 | She left her home to go afoot to the dentist office, |
| 0:33.1 | telling her mother that she would be back about six o'clock |
| 0:35.9 | to iron some clothes she had just |
| 0:38.0 | dampened. As she trudged along the highway toward Kirkland, her uncle, W.S. Welch, came along |
| 0:44.8 | in an automobile, picked her up and sat down at the dentist's door. He and the dentist |
| 0:50.2 | are the last to have any knowledge of her whereabouts so far as has been discovered. |
| 0:58.0 | Ralph Doolin said he saw something in the slew 600 feet from the bridge toward the lake, |
| 1:03.0 | which he took to be a dead dog, November 13th, while fishing. |
| 1:08.0 | There was a blue-gray hat 150 feet from the bridge. He did not investigate. |
| 1:13.6 | November 14th at 9 a.m., he and his uncle, H. Erickson, were fishing there again. |
| 1:22.6 | His uncle investigated the shape in the water, which was still where Doolin had seen it in three or four feet of water. |
| 1:29.9 | It was the girl's body. |
| 1:31.8 | They notified the sheriff. |
| 1:33.9 | The hat was gone. |
| 1:39.3 | Music True Crime Historian presents Unsolved, a special edition of yesterday's news exploring one of history's most baffling murder mysteries. |
| 2:13.7 | Episode 282 is dedicated to true crime historian patron Vivian Bo, who requested an episode from her hometown, Bothel, Washington. |
| 2:24.5 | In scouring the archives, I found this tragic story that takes place in the vicinity. |
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