The Twiggs County John Doe, Part 1: The Accident on Highway 16
The Fall Line: True Crime
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🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After an army diesel-truck crashes on the way to Macon, GA, spilling diesel fuel across the highway and into a nearby creek, emergency workers discover skeletal remains in a drainage ditch—and set off a nearly two-decade investigation. Biological anthropologist Dr. Amy Michael returns to offer her expertise in forensic anthropology on the case.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a good chance we never would have found any of these girls, but all that changed |
| 0:06.7 | after Shannon Gilbert disappeared. |
| 0:09.1 | When a sex worker vanishes in Long Island, authorities would launch a search that led |
| 0:13.4 | to the discovery of ten bodies along a desolate stretch of beach-side highway. |
| 0:18.0 | Lysk, Long Island's serial killer, is the story of who these victims were and what could |
| 0:22.9 | have led to their untimely deaths. |
| 0:25.4 | For 17 months, my daughter Melissa was missing. We had no idea where she was. We didn't know |
| 0:31.6 | if she was alive or dead. |
| 0:33.7 | Download seasons 1 and 2 of Lysk, Long Island's serial killer by Mo Pact Audio, wherever you |
| 0:38.8 | listen to podcasts. |
| 0:42.4 | The Yuba County 5 podcast tells the story of a group of five cognitively impaired men, |
| 0:48.0 | who on the evening of February 24, 1978, mysteriously vanished in the wilderness of Northern |
| 0:54.4 | California. |
| 0:55.4 | One had started as a quick road trip to watch a basketball game in a neighboring town, |
| 1:00.6 | ended months later with a grisly discovery inside a remote cabin in the woods, a discovery |
| 1:06.6 | that only deepened the mystery and exacerbated the family's decades-long search for answers. |
| 1:12.6 | Download season 1 of Yuba County 5 wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:19.6 | This is part 1 in a two-part series. |
| 1:22.6 | This episode contains discussion of crime scenes and autopsy. |
| 1:27.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:44.1 | This is the Fall line. |
| 1:55.6 | This two-part series on the Twigs County John Doe case will be a little different. |
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