The Richland County Jane Doe, Part 1: A Living Jane Doe
The Fall Line: True Crime
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4.6 • 4.4K 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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