The Pinnacle Lake Murders // 314

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In July of 2006, a 27-year-old woman and her mother set out for a four-mile hike around an idyllic Washington lake. Hours after they started their trek, their bodies were found by fellow hikers, and it was clear that they had been murdered. But how did they meet this tragic fate, and why? These are the stories of Mary Cooper and her daughter, Susanna Stodden, also known as the Pinnacle Lake Murders. BONUS EPISODES Apple Subscriptions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-west-true-crime/id1448151398 Patreon: patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. King 5: https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/mary-cooper-susanna-stodden-unsolved-snohomish-county-murder/281-cf04d027-bb9e-4332-8572-f528fdff87b3 2. King 5: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/david-stodden-passes-3rd-polygraph-test-in-unsolved-murders-of-wife-and-daughter/281-603049836 3. The Olympian: https://www.newspapers.com/image/806023375/?terms=mary%20cooper%20susanna%20stodden&match=1 4. Mary's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14935751/mary-cooper 5. Susanna's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169360955/susanna-stodden 6. Obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/seattletimes/name/mary-stodden-obituary?id=29016901 7. The Spokesman-Review: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/mar/11/womens-deaths-remain-a-mystery/ 8. University of Washington Magazine: https://magazine.washington.edu/mary-cooper-1950-2006/ 9. Medium: https://medium.com/@jennbaxter_69070/the-bizarre-double-murder-of-mary-cooper-and-susanna-stodden-29cf63206e59 10. Herald Net: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/murder-case-is-cold-but-memory-still-burns/ 11. US News: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/washington/decatur-elementary-school-241334 12. Herald Net: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/three-years-and-no-answers-in-slaying-of-hikers/ 13. Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/10-years-after-his-wife-daughter-were-killed-on-hike-lack-of-answers-haunts-north-seattle-man/ 14. Washington Trails Association: https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/pinnacle-lake 15. University of Washington Magazine: https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/murder-fascinates-but-experts-say-its-becoming-rarer/ 16. Herald Net: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/shock-gives-way-to-grief/ 17. Herald Net: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/murder-case-is-cold-but-memory-still-burns/ 18. Washington Trail Association: https://www.wta.org/news/magazine/magazine/1207.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on True Crime fans?
0:16.2	I'm your host Teez.
0:17.2	And I'm your host Daphne.
0:18.5	And you're listening to Going West.
0:20.5	Hello everybody!
0:21.5	Today's case was recommended by Randy, who is actually on our team.
0:26.6	Thank you so much to Randy and also as of just yesterday we officially have 90 full
0:32.7	length ad free bonus episodes over on our Patreon and Apple subscriptions.
0:37.8	If you guys are looking for more episodes yesterday we release the case of Jody Jones who
0:42.6	was a teenager in Scotland who was found murdered in the woods in 2003.
0:47.1	So if you would like to hear Jody's story and 89 others head on over links are in the
0:52.5	description of this episode as always.
0:55.4	And as we always say if you're looking for photos and visuals of all these cases that
0:59.8	we cover you can go check out our socials.
1:02.2	We're on Instagram at Going West Podcast, Twitter at Going West Pod and we're also on Facebook.
1:07.6	We have an official page and then we have a discussion group.
1:11.2	And I think there's almost like 10k of you guys in there now.
1:13.8	Yeah, almost.
1:14.8	Amazing.
1:15.8	Very close.
1:16.8	So let's get into this case.
1:17.8	We're going to Washington today a very very bizarre story.
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