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The Fall Line: True Crime

The Richland County Jane Doe, Part 1: A Living Jane Doe

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of The Fall Line's coverage of the 1982 case of The Richland County Jane Doe, a woman who was admitted to the South Carolina State Mental Hospital without identification--and who died before staff could discover her name or locate her loved ones.

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0:00.0

Please note that these episodes discuss medical procedures, notes, and decisions made by

0:07.2

professional providers.

0:09.2

We aren't experts in these fields and don't have information beyond the notes.

0:28.2

This is the Fall Line.

0:38.2

The thing I found over there was that there's a palpable sense of loss there but also of

0:46.0

history and everything was so closed off there to the general public.

0:51.2

Even in broad daylight, the insides of those buildings are so dark.

0:56.9

A lot of times you have to carry a flashlight around.

1:00.4

And so you would get some sun coming in through the windows.

1:05.2

There's so much history in there still.

1:07.2

I mean, I'm talking.

1:08.2

They had patient dresses still in there.

1:12.9

The patient's names were still on the walls.

1:17.6

Imagine a liberal arts college left to decay.

1:22.1

Making red brick buildings, brace by columns, each named after a wealthy philanthropist.

1:29.0

There are windows but up high, along the upper floors.

1:33.3

They are barred and their glass is broken.

1:36.4

Inside the paint is peeling so that the rooms look like they're coated in thousands of

1:42.4

fluffy white wood shavings.

1:45.4

Old has spread across the wood and the plaster and light streams in through the damaged

1:51.1

ceilings, catching forgotten curtains, stray medical supplies and abandoned files.

1:57.8

Once housing several thousand people over 181 acres, the Bull Street campus has sat quiet

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