The Dugout

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

"She was wanting to go out and see somebody. She wouldn't tell me who."

On the morning of March 6th, 2012, the body of thirteen-year-old Jessica Funk-Haslam was found inside a locked baseball dugout at a public park. Jessica, who went to school just a stone's throw away from this park, had been acting up in the months before her death. She had begun rebelling - as most teenagers do - but had begun hanging around a rather rough crowd. In a final act of defiance, she had stormed out of her mother's apartment without telling her where she was going or who she was meeting up with.

Over the next several years, detectives would struggle to determine why Jessica had been targeted by a particularly violent killer. It wasn't until August of 2014 that investigators began to set their sights on a suspect: a young man named Ryan Roberts...

Written, researched, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. It's Michael. I'm here again to present to you all another special presentation of the podcast. I am actually in the process of moving and was hoping to record a new episode tonight.
0:12.0	I guess this morning, September 16th.
0:15.0	Much to my chagrin, however, the computer with all of my scripts and audio plugins decided to
0:20.0	crap out on me.
0:21.6	After quite a few hours of trying to figure it all out, I'm throwing in the towel for the night.
0:26.6	But I did not want to leave you all hanging.
0:29.6	I plan to figure everything out and get back into the swing of things very soon.
0:33.3	I have a couple of scripts ready to go that I think you all will find very intriguing and
0:37.2	fascinating.
0:38.6	But in this episode I'm going to be
0:45.0	unresolved archive, a story that some believe may actually be unresolved,
0:47.0	but in the eyes of the law is a closed case.
0:50.0	I apologize for not having a new episode out,
0:52.0	but I do plan to make it up to all of you soon.
0:56.0	Until then though, I hope you all take care and remember, listener discretion is always advised. On March 6, 2012, a woman was walking through Rosemont Community Park in a southeastern
1:18.8	suburb of Sacramento, California.
1:21.2	It was shortly before sunrise, and this woman was walking through the 17 acre park, collecting
1:26.5	recyclables in a plastic bag. At about 6.30 a.m. that woman walked by the baseball diamond
1:32.3	in the Rosemont Park.
1:33.6	Inside one of the locked dugouts, she was able to see what looked like a body.
1:38.3	As she rushed to get a closer look, she realized that it was a teenage girl who had been savagely murdered and
1:45.6	abandoned on the cold concrete of the baseball dugout. Police were called to the
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