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Three Years LATER, Someone Found Her Purse... #truecrimeshorts #truecrimestories #crimejunkies

June 19, 2026 / 00:50

This episode discusses the mysterious reappearance of Alberta Jones' purse three years after her murder in 1965. Key topics include the discovery of the purse by boys in 1968, its contents, and questions surrounding its location.

Alberta Jones was murdered in 1965, and her purse went missing at that time. In 1968, boys playing on the Sherman Minton Bridge found the purse tucked into a steel support beam. Inside the purse were keys, her missing lower dentures, and her ID.

The condition of the purse raised questions about whether it had been in that location all along or if someone placed it there later. The episode examines the implications of this discovery on the investigation into her murder.

TLDR

Alberta Jones' purse reappeared three years after her murder, raising questions about its location and condition.

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Three years after Alberta Jones was murdered, her purse suddenly appeared. When Alberta was killed in 1965, her

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purse disappeared without a trace. Then three years later, in 1968, a group of boys playing on the Sherman Minton

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Bridge found it tucked into a steel support beam. Just sitting there. And inside the purse

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were keys, her missing lower dentures, and even her ID. This is so much of what had been missing and what investigators

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had been searching for, but this purse wasn't hidden. It wasn't buried. It wasn't in a protected place from the

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weather. If it had been in that spot all those years, it would have been exposed

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to rain, snow, heat, the full spectrum of weather that the Midwest has to offer, but the purse didn't look

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weather-beaten. Which raises a question. Was the purse there the whole time, or did someone put

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it there later?

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Episode Highlights

The Mysterious Purse
Three years after Alberta Jones was murdered, her purse was found in an unexpected place.
“Just sitting there.”
@ 00m 18s
June 19, 2026

Episode Quotes

This is so much of what had been missing.
Three Years LATER, Someone Found Her Purse... #truecrimeshorts #truecrimestories #crimejunkies
Was the purse there the whole time?
Three Years LATER, Someone Found Her Purse... #truecrimeshorts #truecrimestories #crimejunkies

Key Moments

Purse Discovery00:18
Unanswered Questions00:46