When a Boston woman is found dead in the trunk of her own car,

it's initially assumed she was the victim of a random crime.

However, the discovery of a diary allows her to speak from beyond the grave

and shed light on her own brutal murder in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thank you. Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night. I'm your co-host, Scott. Sue Tarascovitz was last seen alive on September 13th,

1992. On that day, she briefly left her job to buy lunch for herself and her co-workers, an errand that should

have taken her less than an hour. However, she never returned to her job at the Boston Logan International

Airport, not with the sandwiches, and not ever. This was strange because Sue was the last person

you'd expect to simply walk off the job and fail to return. Her career was

incredibly important to her. In fact, she was what you might call a trailblazer within her field.

At just 27 years old, Sue was the second ever woman to work for her employer, Northwest Airlines,

as a ground service employee. At the time, most women employed by the airline worked in

customer service-oriented roles, working as flight attendants or at ticket desks.

Sue, on the other hand, preferred more physically demanding work. She was even on a reserve list

for a local fire department at the time of her death, having scored highly on a firefighter

placement exam. In her role at the airport, she handled, having scored highly on a firefighter placement exam.

In her role at the airport, she handled hundreds of bags of luggage per day and performed other tasks such as de-isink planes. That was her favorite part of the job. And Sue wasn't just a ground

crew member. She was actually a ramp crew supervisor, a job that entails a great deal of responsibility, and she was the first

ever woman to hold this position within Northwest Airlines. She'd worked really hard to land that job,

spending five years working in other positions doing things like cleaning the planes, and assisting

passengers with boarding, just waiting for an opportunity to get out on the ramp to arise.

According to her family, when she finally landed a job out on the ramp, she loved the work,

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