The Murder of Susan Minard Lund: Unsolved Homicides, Part 5

The Fall Line: True Crime

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For almost thirty years, Susan Minard Lund’s children believed she’d run away and abandoned them; after she disappeared on Christmas Eve of 1992 in Clarksville TN, a search was launched, but late the next year, her missing-persons report was closed. That’s because a woman in Alabama claimed to be Sue, and authorities accepted the claim. Her siblings and parents never believed it, though, and they were proven right. Her story, and the story of Ina Jane Doe, are the throughline of Laurah Norton’s book, LAY THEM TO REST, and Sue’s family joins us to tell a piece of the story not covered in the book: what it’s been like to deal with the aftermath of knowledge of what they learned—and what the rest of the justice they are waiting for.

Season 18 covers four unsolved homicides in four states and across three decades: all are in need of local and national attention to be resolved.

Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

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0:00.0	This episode discusses violence, crime scenes, autopsy, and homicide.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:07.3	A note for listeners.
0:08.9	There is more to this story than we could possibly cover in one episode.
0:13.0	The story of how Aina Jane Doe was identified as Susan Menard Lund is primarily the basis for
0:18.8	my book, Lay Them to Rest.
0:21.1	And Lay Them to Rest, you can learn more about that journey and about the forensic science
0:25.4	used to identify John and Jane Doe's disappearance is covered in more detail in the book as well. This is the fall line. On December 24th, 1992, Susan Menard Lund disappeared.
0:47.0	She'd recently moved to Clarksville, Tennessee with her family,
0:51.0	three young children and her husband, Paul Paul Senior who was in the Army.
0:55.2	He was stationed at Fort Campbell and if you're unfamiliar that's just over the
0:59.7	border in Kentucky. Paul Lund Sr. was a specialist with the military intelligence
1:04.8	battalion and Sue was a stay-at-home mother at least for the time being. Sue was 25
1:10.7	years old and originally from Indiana. She was the second youngest of five children.
1:16.0	Growing up, she was most known for her intense love of animals.
1:20.0	She'd do anything to save a creature from harm, and she went out of her way to pet every dog or cat that she saw, even the fiercest ones.
1:29.0	One of her oldest sisters, Anne-Marie, thought of that as one of Sue's defining characteristics. That and Sue's love of children.
1:38.6	I strongly believe she would have been like a vet, something to do with animals to take care of them.
1:45.4	She had compassion beyond belief. These animals no matter how big, how small what they were,
1:52.3	it seems like she could just reach down and
1:55.0	pet them same thing with your deers I mean it she'd feed them when we go camping
2:00.0	and stuff it was she was just amazing with animals and after a while my father did tell her that she couldn't bring
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