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The Murder of Susan Taraskiewicz (Massachusetts)

Dark Downeast

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Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Police first thought Susan Taraskiewicz’s murder to be a random act of violence, but soon the investigation revealed a much deeper conspiracy. Was Susan a target? It’s been nearly 30 years since Susan’s murder and nobody has been held responsible, but investigators believe somebody out there knows what happened.

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0:17.0

On the morning of Sunday, September 13th, 1992, 27 year old Susan Tarasquix was working an overnight shift at one of the country's busiest airports. She was the baggage supervisor for Northwest Airlines at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.

0:24.5

Earlier in her shift, Susan offered to go pick up sandwiches

0:27.9

for some of her overnight crew members.

0:30.6

She pulled away from the airport grounds

0:32.4

and her sky-blue Toyota Tursel sometime around midnight.

0:37.0

The next morning, on Monday, September 14th, a manager for Bravo Automotive located almost four miles from Logan Airport in the town of Revere

0:46.1

headed into work around 730.

0:49.2

He noticed a vehicle in the service center's parking lot with what appeared to be blood dripping from the trunk.

0:55.7

When police arrived, they discovered the brutally beaten body of a young woman inside the

1:00.5

trunk of a sky-blue Toyota car.

1:04.0

It was Susan Tarascoitz.

1:07.4

Police first thought Susan's murder

1:09.1

to be a random act of violence,

1:11.4

but soon the investigation revealed a much deeper conspiracy.

1:16.1

Was Susan a target?

1:18.7

It's been 30 years since Susan's murder, and nobody has been held responsible, but investigators believe

1:25.6

somebody out there knows what happened. I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of

1:31.9

Susan Tarascoix on Dark Down East. Susan Tarascoix, often called Sue, grew up in Saugus, Massachusetts with her sister, brother, and her parents,

1:56.6

Ron and Marlene.

1:58.6

Her friends and family say she was feisty, but also just as warm and compassionate. In her high school years, she loved roller

2:07.0

skating, running track, and art. She was remembered as a kind and quiet student at Saugus High School where she graduated in 1983.

2:17.0

She had a love for the Charles Schultz character Snoopy and collected memorabilia that filled

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