The Death of Joseph Smedley: A Heavy Weight

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, News

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of September 28, 2015, Joseph Smedley, who was an Indiana University student, chemistry major, and Sigma Pi fraternity brother, sent his sister, Vivanne, a strange late-night text message: she shouldn't try to contact him—he was leaving the country. Vivianne knew something was wrong; she began a near-week long search for her brother that ended when his body was pulled from a nearby lake. A bookbag weighed down with close to 70 lbs of rock was strapped to his body. Joseph's death was ruled a suicide, and his case was closed. Today, his sister, Vivianne, and a local Indiana podcaster, Stacy Bridavsky, are working to have his case re-examined.

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0:00.0	For nine years, a dangerous man terrorized women, breaking into homes and raping his victims
0:05.8	before killing a brilliant young scientist in 1998.
0:09.3	The more the victims resisted, the more violent he became.
0:12.6	Then he suddenly stops, leaving police with a lot of clues and one unknown subject.
0:18.9	I'm Paul Wagner.
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0:36.8	2, covering the shocking death of 22-year-old Brittany Stikes, who was shot and killed while
0:41.8	driving down US 68 in Georgetown, Ohio.
0:45.5	Nearly a decade later, her case is still unsolved.
0:48.0	It's a case that has left everyone wondering, was this just some random attack?
0:52.7	Or was there a reason behind the evil that took this young mother far too soon?
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1:27.7	Plus for early access and ad-free listening.
1:32.0	This episode discusses themes of suicide, autopsy and crime scene investigation.
1:37.8	Dinner discretion is advised.
1:54.4	This is the Fall Line.
2:05.3	We hadn't heard the story of Joseph Smedley, an aspiring biochemist from Indiana, when
2:10.6	a podcaster named Stacey Brudavsky contacted us.
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