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What Happened in Nashville

What Happened To Sandy Beal — TRAILER

What Happened in Nashville

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.01.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

Where do you want me to start?

0:05.0

I'm writing to you to request the following information in regards to the untimely,

0:12.0

violent and unwitnessed death of my daughter, Sandra Anne Biel.

0:17.4

This marks 41 years without her with no answers. Joanne Bale sent this letter to law enforcement a few years ago,

0:26.0

asking them to reopen the investigation into the death of her teenage daughter, Sandy Beale.

0:32.0

I didn't take any of their crap because I could tell that they were hiding something.

0:39.0

My name is Melissa Jeltson. I'm a reporter who covers violence against women and over the years I've gotten

0:45.8

a lot of tips about stories. People asking me to look into the greatest injustice of their lives.

0:52.4

For Joanne and her family,

0:54.0

family, that's Sandy's mysterious death.

0:57.0

In 1977,

1:00.0

Sandy was found shot to death in her car.

1:03.0

I was like, there's no way.

1:05.0

It's just no way that it's going to be.

1:08.0

Couldn't believe it.

1:09.0

Her death was ruled a suicide,

1:11.0

but the Beel family didn't buy the official story. Instead they

1:15.3

suspected a cover-up. I said you know something you can put any damn thing you want

1:26.8

down that doesn't mean that happened that way. And I wasn't very nice to him because I think they were skunking us all the way around. To this day,

1:32.1

the Beel family remains convinced that there's more to Sandy's story than the police let on.

1:37.0

I've been looking for this police report for decades and they said the building burned down and he goes the building never burned down I'm

1:45.1

work out of it and it's about a 75 year old building that building never burned down

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