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Morning Cup of Murder

The Body in the Cornfield - July 20 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

July 20th: Peggy Lynn Johnson Dies (1999) Finding the identity of a Jane Doe can be incredibly exciting. On July 20th 1999 a young woman was killed and, though her identity remained a mystery for decades, with her name came the name of the woman who killed her. Thus solving her case once and for all.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Peggy_Johnson, https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/who-was-peggy-johnson-and-why-didn-t-anyone-say-she-was-missing-for-20/article_830f588f-5fca-5f4a-bafa-892393682de9.html, https://journaltimes.com/news/local/how-the-family-of-peggy-schroeder-racine-county-s-jane-doe-found-out-she-was/article_20581805-70dc-56d8-a6e3-88204e864a4a.html, https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Peggy_Johnson, https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-arrested-1999-murder-jane-doe-found-cornfield/story?id=66849268, https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/e63m0j/article_about_peggy_johnson_racine_county_jane/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.0

Morning.

0:13.3

...calling murder.

0:14.2

Finding the identity of a Jane Doe can be incredibly exciting.

0:18.5

On July 20th, 1999, a young woman was killed and, though her identity remained a

0:24.1

mystery for decades, with her name, came the name of the woman who killed her, thus solving her case

0:30.8

once and for all. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:42.6

On July 21, 1999, Megan Rios and her father, John Madden, were walking their dogs along 92nd Street in Raymond, Wisconsin when, in the early morning light, they noticed their dogs

0:55.7

barking at something in the cornfield.

0:58.9

Megan, who was only 16 at the time, stood next to her father as they looked upon the body

1:03.5

of a young woman covered in bruises.

1:06.9

The young girl held in her vomit, and though she will never forget that staggering discovery, she later went to college to study criminal justice.

1:15.2

The body found by the father-daughter duo, despite the rainstorm from the day before, lay dry in a, quote, unnatural position.

1:23.8

Police determined that the woman had not been dead long, placing her date of death on July 20th, and was likely between the ages of 18 and 30, and had died after enduring several weeks of extreme neglect, physical, and sexual abuse.

1:40.1

Her ears were cauliflowered, cuts littered the entirety of her body, her nose was fractured,

1:46.2

and scars found on her shins gave the indication that the abuse had been happening for quite some time.

1:52.7

With her physical details cataloged, the police dubbed her Racine County Jane Doe and went to work trying to solve her case,

1:59.6

while more than 50 strangers attended her funeral.

2:03.3

Over the years, a number of reconstructions were done in order to help identify Jane Doe.

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