This episode discusses crime scenes, death, and autopsy.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the fall line.

Two years ago, we launched a season covering the 22 unidentified person's cold cases of Nashville,

Tennessee, and the story that most attracted the attention of our listeners was that of a woman

who was known as Vandy Jane Doe. Her remains were discovered in 2018 in the stiflingly hot early

days of September, hidden along Sulphur Creek Road. Around the first of that month,

county crews had mowed the area in northwest Davidson County, and they'd noticed nothing wrong.

That event became one clear marker in the time for investigators, a narrow window in which

someone had driven down the road, someone who did not want to be seen. At some point

after that crew came through, a young woman's body was placed four or five feet off the road

and what police reports describe as a ditch or a culvert. She'd been purposely obscured with

branches and other vegetation, and it would be several more days, not until September 8th of 2018,

before witnesses came upon her remains and called authorities. As one resident told Fox 17 at the time,

quote, I thought that was pitiful. It was sad. It was a precious person whose life was ripped away

as a piece of trash on the side of the road.

Investigators arrived to find the victim in an advanced state of decomposition.

There were no obvious signs of trauma and no indication of a roadway accident.

Because she'd been hidden, it was clear someone else had been involved, if not in her death,

than in the aftermath. And one

detail was immediately apparent. She had been dressed, nearly head to toe, in Vanderbilt

University branded clothing. For the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or Nickmec,

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