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Forensic Files II

The Maidenwater Murder

Forensic Files II

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5902 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When a true-crime hobbyist connects a Utah Jane Doe to an Ohio missing persons case, detectives are hard-pressed to solve the decades-old murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains dramatizations of actual events.

0:03.7

Certain situations, dialogue, names, and locations may have been changed.

0:07.8

Some scenes are graphic in nature.

0:09.7

Listener discretion is advised. Up next, even police have to admit, this killer has left nothing to chance.

0:24.0

He is methodical and playing head games with law enforcement.

0:27.6

And he's determined that his victim never be identified.

0:31.7

It brought tears to my eyes to see that someone had been so

0:36.2

tortured. A photo was released and soon the general public is on the case.

0:41.4

So we ended up on Webb Slooths, a place where a lot of

0:44.8

armed chair detectives, a lot of internet sloots, a lot of true crime

0:48.1

enthusiasts go. They were able to identify her. So now we know who this body belongs to. It was just a shot in the dark and it worked out. So, On an April afternoon in 1998, a couple driving in rural South Central Utah made a discovery

1:27.2

that would consume local law enforcement for more than two decades.

1:31.9

It was a spring day where husband and wife are driving along.

1:36.8

They observe something off the side of the highway that looks suspicious to them so they stopped to see what it was and that's when they located the body

1:49.2

The female victim was wrapped in plastic, tied with rope and duct tape, rolled up in a child's play mat and stuffed into a sleeping bag.

1:59.0

The cause of death was a single executionstyle gunshot to the head.

2:04.0

The victim was wearing only a bra and panties

2:07.0

and had no identification.

2:09.0

The killer had made sure even estimating a time of death would be impossible.

2:15.0

This body had been in a deep freeze prior to it being found.

2:20.0

And in April, the temperatures would have been 60, 70 degrees in her state,

2:25.0

being in a completely horizontal flat laid out position,

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