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The Fall Line: True Crime

The Beaufort County Jane Doe, Part 2: The Way Forward

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The conclusion to our coverage of the South Carolina case of the Beaufort County Jane Doe.

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0:00.0

This is the second episode in a two-part series. Please listen to the Buford County

0:06.4

Jando Part One before listening to this episode.

0:23.8

This is the Fall Line.

0:30.4

They'll connect those two agencies to talk. Very helpful. They also put on forms where you get

0:39.2

together and you'll present on a case. So we presented this case in 2006 at a ViCap

0:44.9

form in Fredericksburg, Virginia. So we'll talk it out. It's in ViCap and anything similar.

0:52.4

Of course, where we do consider a truck driver, but again, a truck driver, serial killer,

0:58.8

a road that really doesn't care how he leaves the body.

1:02.4

Interstate 95 is known to us. Again and again, it comes up in our research.

1:11.2

That's not so strange, really, if you consider its placement and its sheer size.

1:18.0

If you'll recall, it's the highway that snakes up the east coast, connecting Miami to

1:24.4

eventually New York State and beyond. The I-95 cases show up in nearly every state along that path.

1:34.9

Not because that highway is a unique hunting or dumping ground, because all interstates are.

1:42.7

But when researching doe cases, we've begun to pay a lot of attention to I-95.

1:50.5

In season four, we discussed the FBI's Highway Serial Killers initiative and how they began to

1:56.9

identify clusters of unsolved killings along US interstates. They also found that at least

2:03.8

some of the crimes were committed by serial killers who were also long haul truckers.

2:10.8

But what about the rest of the depths? There are so many victims left along America's interstates.

2:18.0

Perhaps because of the difficulties created for investigators.

2:23.0

First, distance from the crime scene and from those who know the victim. Second, crossing state lines,

2:30.8

we know this complicates both investigation and communication between agencies.

2:36.8

Third, victims can remain identified longer, sometimes even forever, if they're far from home.

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