The Main Line Murders (Part One: Susan, Karen & Michael)
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
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🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The nude body of the victim had been found in the trunk of her own car, missing almost all of her personal belongings. More importantly, there seemed to be no trace of the woman's two children near the crime scene, who had gone missing with her just days prior.
Over the next several months, investigators would attempt to retrace this final weeks of this woman's life. What they found would surprise them, and lead to one of the most bizarre investigations in Pennsylvania state history...
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Episode hosted, produced, and research/writing by Micheal Whelan
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| 0:00.0 | On the morning of June 25th, 1979, a Monday, a call was received by police dispatchers |
| 0:13.8 | in the area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:16.6 | The caller, a male that decided to remain anonymous, alerted police to a vehicle in a |
| 0:21.6 | motel parking lot in Sotera Township, which was roughly halfway between Harrisburg and |
| 0:26.8 | Hershey. |
| 0:27.8 | According to this caller, the woman, who he found in the back of the vehicle in the trunk |
| 0:32.7 | was sick. |
| 0:34.0 | But when police arrived at the motel parking lot just after 5.30 that morning, they discovered |
| 0:39.1 | that she wasn't sick. |
| 0:40.8 | She wasn't even alive. |
| 0:42.5 | Rather, she had been dead for close to an entire day, and her nude body, which had been |
| 0:47.7 | haphazardly thrown into the trunk of this abandoned plimuth, showed signs of abuse |
| 0:52.3 | preceding her death. |
| 0:54.1 | For the next several hours, police would set out to identify this woman, eventually |
| 0:58.5 | discovering that she was a mother that had gone missing earlier that weekend. |
| 1:02.6 | Surprisingly though, she had gone missing with her two children, both of whom were missing |
| 1:07.0 | from the crime scene entirely, and seemed to have vanished into thin air. |
| 1:11.8 | Their disappearance seems to have been precipitated by their mother's murder, and while investigators |
| 1:17.0 | have been able to provide some pieces to this puzzle in the decade since. |
| 1:21.4 | Several facets of this story remain unexplained and unsolved to this day. |
| 1:26.6 | This is the story of Susan, Karen, and Michael Reinert, also known as the mainline murders. |
| 1:42.8 | Susan Gallagher was born in Ridgeway, a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania, to her |
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