"These unfortunate circumstances can bond people"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Seven-year-old Janice Pocket disappeared from Tolland, Conn., in 1973. Diana Ferris was killed in Hartford 23 years later. Both of their families are still searching for answers. Reporter DeAndria Turner has been looking back at the cases for Fox61 in Hartford. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.3	When you've been through something similar, unfortunately, these unfortunate circumstances can bond people, and that's what they said it was like.
0:10.3	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:12.5	You're listening to The Daily Crime. The first few days matter the most when police are investigating violent crimes.
0:37.0	Many people, fortunately, they get
0:38.6	those answers and they get closure. But many other families, they don't. Seven-year-old Janice Pocket
0:44.7	disappeared from Tallinn, Connecticut in 1973. 23 years later and about 20 miles away,
0:53.2	35-year-old Diana Ferris was killed in Hartford.
0:56.7	What these two cases have in common is that they're both still unsolved, and family members of
1:02.5	Janice Pocket and Diana Ferris are still waiting for answers.
1:06.5	And so that common ground of the unknown, I think, unites you.
1:11.6	You never know what it's like unless you've been through it.
1:19.6	DeAndria Turner is joining us from Fox 61 in Hartford, Connecticut.
1:23.6	DeAndria, first off, thanks for joining us.
1:25.6	Thank you for having me.
1:34.3	You recently worked on a story about two families in Connecticut who are searching for answers in the cold cases of their loved ones.
1:42.0	The first of these two cases is the 1973 disappearance of a seven-year-old girl from the town of Tallinn, Connecticut.
1:44.2	Tell us about Janice Pocket.
1:49.5	Yes, well, interestingly enough, Janice Pocket was one of three girls who disappeared between the late 60s and early 1970s.
1:53.3	It was the first time that she was ever allowed to ride her bike on her own, and she wanted
1:59.5	to go see up a butterfly that her and her sister
2:02.2	tried to rescue was still there. And her mom and her sisters, they had just got done grocery
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