Well, hi there. Welcome to another episode of Thinking Sideways, the podcast. I'm Devon.

I'm Steve, I'm Joe, and we're going to definitely solve a mystery tonight. We are. Yeah. Don't you think we're going to solve this one?

Mm hmm. You don't think so. Based on the name. Not so much. Okay. I'm sorry to be a naysayer, but I do. That's fair. Yeah, I got reservations tonight. That's fair. It's so we're doing this case. It's called Jane Doe 245 UFVA. It's a really sexy name, right? Yeah. Yeah.

We'll address it off rolls off the tongue. What kind of parents would name their kid? Yeah. Hi. So yeah, I mean, you know, let's just get into it. Our story starts on December 18th, 1996 in the Pleasant Valley Memorial Park, which is a small cemetery in Anandale, Virginia. That's how you say that name, right? Anandale sounds just like the stealing. Anandale. Anandale. Yeah. The body of an unidentified woman is found in the part of the cemetery that's

designated for children's graves. And now this is one of the things I heard this thing about about this cemetery. And I didn't know that cemeteries typically has segregated children's sections. I think smaller cemeteries often do. This is it's in a smaller town. Well, it isn't the cemetery is old. Yeah. No, actually, it's not what the cemetery itself is old. This area, specifically where she was found was near more very recent. Oh, okay. No, actually, I did.

A little research on the cemetery. They've got a webpage. Oh, yeah, they didn't start the cemetery until 1963. Oh, well, that's all to me. Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was, it was somebody's estate. Apparently somebody, you know, some very wealthy person living there in their state sold it to developers who created the cemetery. Right. I think in smaller places, they often do that. Yeah, I don't know if they had an unnaturally high rate of infant mortality there or anything like that. They needed that. I don't really know why they had that area, but they did. Okay.

They found two $50 bills. One was for the corner and one was for the cemetery and they both had the note with them, a note with them that read deceased by own hand. Prefer no autopsy. Please order cremation with funds provided. Thank you, Jane Doe. So first off, that's a little weird. She signed a Jane Doe doesn't want an autopsy and really $50 for cremation. Yeah. Obviously, she has a cremated everybody for a long, long time. It's a big deal.

Yeah, it's gone up. Yeah, a little bit. So all right, it's already a little bit weird. Yeah, that's unusual. Right. So she had apparently taken some volume and consumed a sizeable amount of brandy. Her blood alcohol level was 0.14, 0.08 is the legal drug limit usually. Yeah. So that's, that's a lot of brandy. Yeah. Especially brandy. Yeah. Let's be honest here of the alcohols. You think, Oh, I could drink a lot of that. Brandy.

Believe it or not, some people like that stuff. Maybe. I don't know. So in addition to the brandy that they found in the site, I think it was like near her hand or something. I don't. It was unclear. It wasn't part of her knapsack findings. Oh, okay. They found her knapsack. And it had two empty juice bottles, a roll of masking tape, a Jeff Fox, where the you might be a red net cassette, a Monty Python and the Holy Grail cassette. She had a portable tape player and headphones. And the headphones were on her head over here.

And she had been listening to recording of comedians. Mel Brooks and Carl Rayner doing their 2000 year old man routine. Sir, is it true that you are 2000 years old? Oh boy. Yes. You are too, it's hard to believe sir because in the history of man, nobody's ever lived more than 167 years as they man from Peru would claim to be. But you claim to be 2000. Yes. I'll be are not yet. I'll be. I'll be. I'll be. I'll be. Thank you.

She won't be 2000 October 16th.

She wanted to have a fun time.

Yeah, they're all comedies.

She seems to be trying to feel better about herself or something.

So this is another put-offie thing about this case.

They found her, the headphones were on.

The tape presumably had been playing.

But she'd killed herself by putting a plastic bag over her head or the headphones

and taping it shut and suffocating herself while she listened to a comedy

because that tape went away.

And this is, that's kind of a weird, difficult way to kill yourself.

Yeah.

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