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oh [Music] a hard-working pious honest and kind woman battles pervasive harassment at her
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workplace she deals with it handling a difficult situation in a sophisticated manner
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her intelligence and hard work pay off as she Rises up the ranks to a position of superiority
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at an outfit dominated by tough men It is believed that these men her tormentors
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thought that they could bully her to the point that she would quit her job but Susan taraskowitz
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was tougher smarter than they were she kept documentation of the harassment hoping that one day soon these bad
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elements that created so much bad blood could be removed scrubbed clean and washed away
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but blood is thicker than water even the bad kind and then one night in the middle of a
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graveyard shift Susan disappeared was this the case of retaliation revenge or was it something else
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who would have wanted her gone how many of these bad elements were involved just what the hell happened here
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can this case still be solved we will attempt to answer many of these questions this week
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on True Crime garage [Music] Susan taraskowitz was born February 13 1965 in Everett Massachusetts
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she grew up in a blue-collar town the blue collar town of Saugus Susan was the middle child of three kids
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born to parents Ronald and Marlene to roskowitz Ronald was a tractor-trailer dealer and Marlene worked at the local
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grocery store Susan had one sister Deborah and one brother Ronald Jr the family home was known in the
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neighborhood because it was a pink Ranch Little Pink Houses there captain now to
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neighbors and those who knew Susan's family they all Rave about how sweet generous
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and friendly Susan was or as everyone called her Sue was athletic and active she enjoyed
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running roller skating and soccer in 1983 she graduated from Saugus High School while there she had a reputation
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for being quiet but also reputation for being sweet helpful and nice both to her
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teachers and classmates Not only was Sue athletic but she had an artsy side and she was known for making crafts she
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enjoyed sewing and creating holiday decorations she was very active in the Catholic Parish church that her family
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attended even teaching Sunday school and serving as a Eucharist minister she went to a community college for a
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bit she aspired to be a cartoonist but that didn't really seem to pay the bills so she sidelined her dream for a more
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regular job more regular work and she ended up taking a job at the same place that many other locals did back then
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this is the Boston International Airport or Logan International Airport and we all know how this goes you get a new job
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you're thinking that life is on the up and up but her life Sue's life becomes more
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turmoil than happiness that's exactly right and that's what we will find when we go through the events leading up to
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the the time in question that her life was filled with turmoil now we mentioned some of the problems she faced at work
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in today's trailer and we will get into her work stuff very shortly but in her personal life
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it was also in major flux leading up to the timing question she had just broken up with a long-term
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boyfriend who was an employee of an airplane fuel company and she left the Catholic church in which she had been
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raised to join a fundamentalist Christian Church Susan was clearly seeking something at that time in her
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life she typically worked the night shift and then went straight to Boston Church of Christ services in Danvers on
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Sunday morning after leaving the airport she also attended a Thursday night bible
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group her friends and family described what the Boston Globe referred to as a fervent commitment to the extremist
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Church whose fundamentalist teachings and demands were thought to be by some controversial
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this church was even termed a cult by several people now two of Susan's friends who spoke
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with the Boston Globe this is Vicky Boone and an unnamed woman both said that her recent breakup with her
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boyfriend it was Mutual it was amicable and there didn't seem to be any problems
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there but she replaced that part of her life with a new profound passion for this
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fundamentalist church that she had joined and she tried to recruit co-workers and family members and
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Friends into its ranks she often brought Candy to work to sweetly bribe people to listen to her
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about her new church and her experiences there she was so dedicated to this church that
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she missed out on sleep to help elderly church members when they were ill driving members to church and to Bible
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study and even babysitting members children so that they could attend services this to me and I think you will agree
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with me Captain what I see here when we take a glimpse of Susan's life I see a person that once she decides to
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commit to something she's incredibly dedicated incredibly dedicated to that and we see
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that with her church and I say unfortunately because I believe this is all tied up in this case but I
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think we see this with her workplace as well well like you're saying Sue is very
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dedicated to her church and she's dedicated to this job that makes her Inner Circle a little larger than I
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think most people in her early 20s Susan got a job working for Northwest Airlines
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at Logan Airport she started in May of 1987 working as a plane cleaner someone that cleans the planes at that time this
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is a job largely held mostly by women but she worked her way up to equipment Service employee by December of that
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same year by 1989 she was hired as a member of the ground crew now at that time Captain
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this meant that Susan was only the second woman ever to work the ramp for Northwest Airlines which at the time was
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the fourth largest airline in the U.S of a Sue was a tough young woman and told others that she enjoyed the physicality
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the work required slinging bags on and off the planes using the light sticks to direct the Jets in and out of their Bays
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driving the loaders and Hauling equipment and supplies she told her family that she was happy
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and that they had no reason to doubt her in fact her mother Marlene told The Wall Street Journal quote she truly
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loved working the ramp the thing she liked most was de-icing the planes she just felt it was very important end
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quote Susan's friend and co-worker Deb mazikas said quote the ramp was always known to
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be a man's job Sue wanted to show she could do it just as well as any man well if I know most men most men are
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[ __ ] so they're probably going to give her a pretty hard time that seems to be the case here Captain because
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much later in our timeline unfortunately it's going to take until later for her family to discover
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what was likely the truth here that sure Susan seemed to have loved her job in the beginning
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but at some point her job became a source of stress and not just regular work stress stuff
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this is elevated stress which would include humiliation and an actual struggle sometimes day to day
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now in February of 1992 Susan was up for a promotion to ramp crew chief again this is at Northwest Airlines the
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airline awarded the position to a male co-worker instead this is despite Union rules at the time
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about seniority so the union rules Captain would require that the job be awarded to someone like
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Sue who was in a position of holding seniority over the person who was awarded the job so sue petitioned
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the airline for a redress and ends up winning and so the ramp chief job became her job
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she was the first woman to hold that title at that Airline this put her in a position of superiority over the Rough
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Around the Edges baggage handlers and ground crew that she worked among and had a supervise
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Men passed over for the promotion were irate and unfortunately some of these men were
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rude enough dumb enough for both to let it be known that they felt it because she was a woman that Susan did not
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deserve to get the job well let's go through this slowly she applies for a job that she should
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have got because she had seniority she doesn't get that job so one person maybe multiple people make
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this decision she then says this isn't right so she then sues the company so then
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those individuals that made the decision if they didn't lose their jobs they're I'm sure they were reprimanded
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and then you have all the people well you have the one individual that they gave the job to that they have to take
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away now he's butt hurt instead of being butt hurt at the guys that made the decision he's going to be butt hurt at
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Sue well and the the other thing we need to keep in mind too this is this is the
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Union that is telling the airlines hey this is what what our Union has decided is right and
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fair the what is right and what is most fair is that the person with the most seniority who applies for the job should
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have first crack at it and that person is Susan the individual that that got the job and
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then they had to take it from them the individuals that gave him the job instead of Susan
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it would only make sense that they're a part of the same Union right right it's so it's it's this is a weird situation
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like and you do see this like you have these groups that are supposed to be individuals banded together for one
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common good but when things don't work out for them individually all of a sudden they want to break the rules or
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they don't think that they were treated Fair no you decided on those rules together
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you decided on what was most Fair together as a union so you should stand up for your union
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brothers and sisters but because we're talking about 30 years ago more than 30 years ago that
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people people just didn't see things that way especially when you're you're talking about a line of work that was
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predominantly held by men and had been for so many years yeah and it's a little bit of human nature you
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can't go after the collective so you can go after the individual her co-worker Deb who we've already referenced before
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and then another co-worker his name is Joseph snow both of them told the media that Sue faced challenges
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from those that she supervised um because you keep it keep in mind the way that these things typically work in a
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workplace is people tend to choose sides right when when there's something going on when
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they're when there's a dust up that's going on people tend to choose sides and some of the people that chose the other
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side and not suicide were people that she had to manage she's the boss now of many people
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and so these two people would later tell the media Deb and Joseph snow would tell
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the media that Sue faced challenges from the people that she supervised she button heads against people that work
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for her but that she continued to hold her head high and perform at a high level on the job yeah I've actually seen
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this scenario go both ways I I was I was part of a bank that was closing branches
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so we got moved to another branch immediately the manager said didn't ask for you guys to be here
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I don't care about you guys keeping jobs here I am going to try to manage you out
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and she did she micromanaged to the point where people couldn't take it anymore so they quit and then there was
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other employees that were like you're not going to be thorn in my side I'm going to be a thorn in your side and
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made it completely difficult and became a very very hostile work environment and
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things like pay and having jobs affect everyone's livelihood and it affects people's families and it makes sense
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that people get could even get to the level of of hostile uh regarding these situations but it's
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also like let's try to keep level heads here and and make sense and again here in this situation we're talking
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about a unionized job and in unionized situation where they're supposed to be voting on
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things collectively and deciding as a group and it's like if you're really going to
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be a part of the Union wouldn't you back up those decisions that were made by the union even if it
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weren't in your best interest or even if it weren't what was your idea you got outvoted now sadly Captain it
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was shortly after this promotion that Sue would go missing [Music] all right cheers mates onward and upward
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and cheers to you Colonel good to have you back in the good old state of Ohio thank you Captain cheers to you thanks
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everybody for hanging out with me at crimecon and hope to see you again next year
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so now we're going to have to jump forward here Captain to September of 1992. so just a little quick math here
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Susan now with the title of ramp chief has now been an official employee of Northwest Airlines for five years and
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five months so let's go to Saturday night this is September 12 1992. Susan is the overnight shift supervisor
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working the 11 PM to 7 A.M third shift that night Susan left Logan airport or planned to
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leave Logan Airport I want everybody to underline that and keep keep that in their mind make mental note of that
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statement Susan left Logan airport or planned to leave Logan Airport in the middle of her shift so by now
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technically it is really Sunday morning the 13th Susan was going to go and grab lunch
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for the crew that night so she had went around collected sandwich orders from everybody on the
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crew she now has a list of Sandwich orders from her crew for a Revere sandwich shop that she was
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going to go and pick up the orders from and she told the crew that she was driving to the deli to pick up the food
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and she was going to bring it back this was a fairly big undertaking from my understanding here Captain anyone who
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has navigated Logan Airport knows that it's not easy to get in and out of there it's a maze of off and on ramps with
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complicated freeway exchanges so it's reported that Susan left or planned to leave around 1am
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as far as anyone knows we can't find anybody who actually says that they saw that they witnessed her getting into
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her car that night and this I think is is some key details of this timeline because she never came back to work that
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night and was her car found at her work no her car is later found but not at work and and here's something that I
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find and I believe everybody else out there will find rather curious so according to every report out there
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not a single person at Northwest Airlines reported the fact that Susan had reportedly said she'd be right back
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think about this she takes lunch orders from everyone sandwich orders from everyone says I'm going to go out pick
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to pick up lunch for everyone I'll be right back nobody at her work reports her missing
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she's not officially reported missing until about a day and a half later how does nobody notice that she didn't
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return to work one but then on top of that didn't bring back my lunch my my sandwich that I ordered like it would be
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pretty obvious to everybody there that she didn't return yeah big deal sitting around waiting for
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my lunch where's Susan at and keep in mind we talked about the the hours of her shift right her shift
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reportedly is 11 P.M to 7 A.M that night the reports are that she left at approximate or planned to leave at
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approximately 1am that's relatively early in the shift for her for it to go unnoticed that she never returned so one
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nobody I'm not saying that it went totally unnoticed what I'm pointing out is that it went totally unreported
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so nobody reports that she didn't return one which she should have been back maybe 30 minutes at the most 40 minutes
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at the most let's say there's still five hours plus of that shift left so you mean to tell me that a whole crew of
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people who were waiting on their lunches and who would be working and supervised
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by this individual for five hours five and a half hours right additional hours never no notice to the point of telling
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anybody that she was missing or didn't return very bizarre stuff there well we don't
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know what their work schedules were like and how often they they saw her you know I've worked in warehouses
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before where it's you might see the boss a couple hours in the morning but maybe
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once it hit sludge time you don't see the boss around lunchtime but but here it's it's
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significantly different because you have again a set of a set of people that are waiting for their lunches
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they're waiting for her return you think that one of those individuals would have
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said this is a little strange that she hasn't made it back yet uh we should we should let security know
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this we should let somebody know this I'll give you a very similar scenario that I'm sure almost everybody's
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experienced because not everybody's boss brings them lunch I don't know the setup
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did they hand in money was she willing to buy was this a regular thing or irregular thing I don't know that setup
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I'm not going to pretend to know but I do know this setup and understand this setup which I think most people will how
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many times at a job has somebody said hey man I want to take a lunch uh uh boss lady boss person I'm gonna take a
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break I'd like to take a break or I need to make a phone call and the boss tells you no problem you
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can go to lunch as soon as I get back from this or as soon as I get back from my break
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we've all been there and what happens after like 20 minutes 30 minutes 40 minutes go by you start checking your
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watch you start checking the clock because you hey I'm expecting that break and then you would think after five
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hours people are starting to would have some concern to tell somebody now let's flip
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it to to somebody else who obviously would have concern Susan's parents now they were of course worried when their
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daughter never came home from her shift but let's go back to what we know was going on in her life at that time
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and cross exam and cross-reference all of the material that we have all of the information that we have right so her
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parents they're thinking look we know how busy our daughter is with her work we know how dedicated and how much time
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she's devoting to her church and so they made some assumptions maybe she went to the church to help out
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after her shift and that's why she didn't come home or maybe she picked up an overtime shift which wasn't uncommon
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but then her parents catch wind that Sue had not been at work on Monday the 14th
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so Marlene her mother reports her missing reports her daughter missing at that point so that's why you
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have that roughly day and a half timeline between the time it's believed that Susan was last seen by her
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co-workers in the middle of her shift to when she's officially reported missing but she's reported missing by
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her family mind you now meanwhile that same day that Monday morning at 7 30 a.m there's a worker an employee at Bravo
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Tire and Auto Service this individual he pulls into work at the mechanic shop this business is
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located at Lee Burbank Highway Route 1 in Revere as he Parks his vehicle note that that's
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the same town that she's going to go pick up the sandwiches from the deli right as he Parks his car he's shown up for
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work that day he notices that there's a vehicle in the Shop's driveway that was not on the appointment list
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that morning right so he sees this car he goes in he checks the appointment list wait a second this car's not on our
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appointment list now mechanic shop we know how this all works there's emergencies there's breakdowns that
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happen it's probably not uncommon that someone would drop their car or have a vehicle towed
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to a mechanics lot and then phone it in the next day hey need some help think broke down on
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the side of the highway but he checks his appointment list it's not on their schedule so he goes out to further
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investigate and what he notices we should point out this vehicle it's a Toyota torsell and
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it's blue in color but he quickly notices blood smeared on the trunk of the vehicle
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and in fact the way that this was reported Captain is that there's so much blood
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on the trunk of this vehicle that at some point it had not just smeared across the trunk but the blood had
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dripped onto the ground near the back of the vehicle so of course the mechanic calls the
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Revere Police now police arrive on the scene and they have the unfortunate duty of opening up
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the car in the trunk and unfortunately inside they find Susan's body they find Susan Tarasco it's his body in
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the trunk of the vehicle she's only 27 years old at this time and she's dead like you mentioned before we have no
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eyewitness seeing her get into her vehicle to take that lunch break now you say she was found in her trunk
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what else do we know about that scene well and this is really tragic too it's one of those extra sad parts of the
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story that we come across regularly think of how this is all playing out she's she's technically been found
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shortly before her her mother her parents are going to report her as missing but you know police have to have to
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process the scene they have to do a little bit of work they hadn't got around to telling the mother yet what we
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do learn though Captain is that the victim Susan she's found fully dressed later it was determined that she had not
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been sexually assaulted but she had been violently beaten and stabbed her cause of death was multiple
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stab wounds to the back and blunt force trauma to the head and neck and I have some suspicions about that
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and I think that that there's some other aspects of this case that play into some
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of those injuries and we'll get into that in a bit but we probably don't need to tell you
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that this was very quickly ruled a homicide the money for the sandwiches was found in the vehicle
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she never made it to the deli that night to pick anything up there were some missing items the only
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reported known to the public missing items and this is what Sue's family alerted
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police after they identified the body and after they identified her her clothing
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and belongings and such the family told police that Susan always wore a 16-inch gold chain that had two
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charms on it one was a Christ head Medallion and the other was a crucifix this item these items were missing from
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her body when she was found dead in the trunk of the car and none of these items
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have ever been found they've never been located police checked the surveillance camera
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footage from the coastal oil New England facility this is a business across the street right from the parking lot where
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her vehicle and body were found so across the street from the Bravo auto shop whether they saw Susan's car arrive at
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Bravo and if so who was driving it is unknown we know they checked the footage we don't know exactly what they've seen
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but what we do know is police have stated that they believe that Susan was actually killed elsewhere and her car
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just ditched at the Bravo shop the Bravo car repair place was noted to be very near the Esquire Club which is a
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bar known to be frequented by employees of Northwest Airlines yeah when you start breaking down this
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timeline and you hear that she collected money to go get sandwiches my first thought well I don't know if she
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collected remember I had said I don't know that's one thing that I'm interested in finding out I don't know
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if she collected money or if she was buying them or if the company was paying right that part I don't know but the
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money the money that is believed to be for the purchase of the lunches was found in the vehicle we do know that so
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still found in the vehicle but if co-workers are saying whether they she collected money or whether they're
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saying that she was going to buy the sandwiches that part of the story seems to check out
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then she leaves but nobody sees her get into her vehicle so we don't know if there was a confrontation
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at that parking lot or where that where the conflict first started taking place exactly and what we do the only thing we
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really do know is police saying that we believe she was killed elsewhere and the vehicle was just ditched there
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which I think is really interesting when you check that against the idea that we
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know that they check the surveillance camera footage across the street but we don't know what they they were able to
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view on that if anything we don't know if if they could see the car pulling into the
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lot across the street Susan's car or do they have any idea if one person got out or two people got out right
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because you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to piece together that if police are
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telling you we believe she was killed elsewhere then she wasn't the one driving the vehicle when it was dropped
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off at that parking lot yeah and were they able to see somebody leave the vehicle was there another vehicle that
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came and picked up an individual after the car was dropped off this could be some stuff that law
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enforcement knows they're just not releasing it to the public and the interesting thing too is if
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there were other people involved right people that work together we we have nobody saying that they saw her get into
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her Toyota Tercel to drive off if she's attacked killed prior to leaving you know airport security is pretty good
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so I put the the percentage rate that she was attacked at the airport a little lower on the scale I don't know what the
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surveillance was like or security was like at the time or in the employee lot if there was one
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but I think that it's important to note that it is close to that Esquire Club a bar
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known to be frequented by Northwest employees and there's at least one source that says that Susan had gone
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there on more than one occasion and the only reason why I'm going out of my way to point that out again is if
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you were planning to do something or somebody did do something in the moment and then needed some help you don't
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necessarily need to have both individuals having been at work with her that night on that shift
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if you could walk over to that club and catch a ride with somebody that you work with who happens to be off that
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night to me if if cops are saying that she was killed elsewhere and that vehicle was
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just ditched there then you have two choices either that was a random choice to ditch the car there that night or it
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was premeditated that that location was predetermined to ditch the vehicle and like you said there's Conflict at
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work there's people that she's arguing with I'm guessing some higher ups and maybe some people that work under her
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some lower Downs yeah the the who's lower down well we're going to get into some some of those lowdowns here in a
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little bit here Captain well see what I wanted to know is the day of the day in question yeah is there anybody that says
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hey an hour into work fireworks were were going off and and it was uh that there was some conflict that's
00:36:51
taking place that people were witness of right and look I don't think that there
00:36:56
was one and I don't have a lot to base that off of but let's go back to one thing we do know
00:37:02
one thing we do know is nobody at her work reports her is missing and they have to work an additional five
00:37:09
hours with her once she were to return with those sandwiches at minimum five more hours
00:37:17
so I think it would be if there was some kind of conflict the pushing a shoving people shouting at one another if if
00:37:25
that was something that took place that that one happened at all but two happened out in the open it would seem
00:37:32
to me that somebody then would really pick up on the fact that hey Sue went out to pick up those sandwiches
00:37:38
three hours ago and I've not seen her since where's my tuna fish you know what I
00:37:45
mean it's it seems so bizarre to me that nobody at work reports her missing and let's let's take this one step further
00:37:55
we've already said that there's Conflict at work with people that don't seem to like her and people choosing sides right
00:38:01
and imagine if you're one of those people that don't like her doesn't that give you even more reason
00:38:08
to report that she's not at work like all I've been trying to tell you she sucks
00:38:14
that she shouldn't have that job here it is 5 a.m and what she went out for lunch four hours ago
00:38:22
that's the kind of thing that people babysit and Report when they don't like people that they work with or work for
00:38:29
now well and I just want to go on record to say that if my tuna fish sandwich didn't show up
00:38:38
I'm shutting down the whole facility I will not be working I will not be working I will not help you work I will
00:38:48
be shutting the place down until we know what happened to my sandwich I don't want to get too far sidetracked but one
00:38:55
of my favorite shows I think you should leave says that there should be a rule against
00:39:00
working through lunch should not be allowed now back to more serious stuff though here
00:39:06
captain and I want to touch on a couple things before we get into some of Susan's workplace
00:39:14
yeah disagreements situation harassment you could call it all kinds of different
00:39:19
things within days of Susan's murder Suffolk District Attorney Ralph Martin said to the papers
00:39:28
they had quote no particular suspect end quote now this might have been true at that point in time this is just days
00:39:36
after but I'm telling you that is going to change as time went on and as this investigation went on now let's talk
00:39:44
about one of our favorite shows from Pastime Unsolved Mysteries 35 years ago yes this show started
00:39:55
of the more than 1 300 mysteries profiled in over 230 episodes half of the cases featuring wanted fugitives
00:40:05
have been solved more than 100 family members have been reunited with lost loved ones and seven individuals who
00:40:13
were wrongly convicted of crimes have been exonerated and released that's according to unsolved mystery's website
00:40:20
cases involving missing persons missing heirs murder fraud and Amnesia have also
00:40:27
been solved following Unsolved Mysteries broadcasts and according to their website that adds up to over
00:40:33
260 solved cases so good job by you Unsolved Mysteries this case was featured on that great show season 8 episode 10.
00:40:48
which also featured a segment about a wanted fugitive Albert Leon Fletcher a Florida fugitive who was apprehended in
00:40:57
Delaware after the broadcast so that's furthermore proof of that great show shout out to Terry dunmur and John
00:41:04
Cosgrove the creators of that great show according to Unsolved Mysteries it is not known if her former boyfriend
00:41:12
was ever considered a suspect by police we had a couple listeners about a year ago shout out to the beautiful listeners
00:41:20
recommend this case and when I looked it up fired up the old search engine one thing I noticed it was on all Unsolved
00:41:27
Mysteries went back and watched that episode and one thing that I I don't want to gloss over
00:41:35
is the fact that there was a breakup with this former boyfriend from my understanding though Captain this was
00:41:41
months in advance of her going missing from work and then found murdered in the trunk of her car
00:41:49
according to that show it's not known if her former boyfriend was ever considered
00:41:54
to be a suspect at any point in the investigation by police but what we do learn is that Sue's family backed him up
00:42:02
100 in fact saying that there is no way that he killed her in fact photos of him
00:42:12
and photos that he had taken were visible in collages that were displayed at her funeral and he had been he was a
00:42:20
big part of her life so the family doesn't have any suspicions about this guy but it was unclear to me if police
00:42:27
ever did but the way that this investigation goes and the route that it starts to take
00:42:35
about a year after she's killed I think we're going to figure out that police if they they likely looked at the
00:42:43
boyfriend how could you not the ex-boyfriend but they had cause and they had reason to move on from him yeah I
00:42:50
think any of these cases that there's not answers right away you look into individuals like we like we always say
00:42:57
look into the the Inner Circle first and then move to the Outer Circle and when you got
00:43:04
nothing repeat rinse and repeat at Susan's funeral a Snoopy stuffed animal was next to
00:43:11
Susan's casket Snoopy was her favorite character she had a collection of what's reported to
00:43:18
be over 2 000 snoopies wow and a lot of people say that the character kind of sort of summed up her
00:43:28
personality too this according to her friend Vicky and what she told the Boston Globe her friends and family said
00:43:35
that Susan was a kind and loving person now when she died Susan was looking forward to being Made
00:43:44
of Honor at her sister's wedding and unfortunately she never got the chance well while we're on this subject which
00:43:52
one was your favorite peanut character whoever played the piano I don't really know the Peanuts
00:43:59
characters very well old Schroeder on the piano I I was a big fan of Linus Van Pelt a lot of good characters on the
00:44:08
peanuts speaking of characters here Captain we talked briefly about suspects in one
00:44:16
thing that is very interesting to me here is we we have the money that's found in her vehicle so that would point
00:44:23
to the idea that this was not robbery related there was no sexual assault on the victim
00:44:31
she's brutally attacked and killed and then left in the trunk of her car police saying that they believe she was killed
00:44:38
elsewhere I have to believe that they did not have a lot or were not able to pull a lot from the surveillance footage
00:44:46
across the street never been confirmed but we don't know what they know but what we do know is that
00:44:54
her mother and her family for a good period of time believed that Susan was killed by a random individual
00:45:04
that it was a random stranger on Stranger attack which may make sense when you have somebody
00:45:12
that appears to have no enemies but also the vehicles found in this kind of random location that makes a little bit
00:45:23
of sense yeah we've got to keep in mind though that her her family and police are unaware of the problems at work
00:45:31
early in this investigation well one of the reasons why that would make sense is because what we see in a
00:45:39
lot of these cases and what people have studied for years are these patterns and so if you have a
00:45:46
victim where somebody tries to conceal that victim tries to hide that victim from being found that normally
00:45:57
you would lean towards somebody that actually knew the victim in this case it's it's almost the Paul it's almost
00:46:04
the polar opposite because they parked the vehicle in a public place so the vehicle is going to be found
00:46:11
obviously somebody's going to report her missing now we're going to be looking for a vehicle because her vehicle is
00:46:17
also missing from work we're going to find that vehicle and when we search that vehicle we're going to find our
00:46:23
victim so it almost makes you lean towards the idea that is somebody that she didn't even
00:46:30
know well and I bring up from time to time the Killer's getting lucky and I don't know that this was planned I
00:46:37
talked about the location of where her vehicle was found it was found at that the businesses parking lot the the auto
00:46:44
repair shops parking lot in Revere did they know did they purposely put that vehicle there because they look it's
00:46:53
going to be found when you put the vehicle there in that location it's most definitely going to be discovered
00:46:59
there's no way not to discover it but it's almost likely to be found rather quickly and reported rather quickly so
00:47:06
did they put it there knowing that the business didn't operate until Monday morning keep in mind she goes missing
00:47:12
the last reported sighting of her is at approximately 1am on a Sunday did they put it there knowing that that
00:47:19
would buy them some time that the business wouldn't open up again until Monday morning or is this just another
00:47:25
situation where the killer gets lucky because I think that that that that short period of time that expires
00:47:33
between the time that she is last seen she's never reported missing in fact she's not from the timeline and
00:47:41
all the sources that we have it technically says that she's reported missing after her body is found
00:47:47
so that gives us at about what 7 A.M 7 30 a.m on that Monday back that all the way up to 1am Sunday
00:47:57
morning right over 24 hours so over about 30 to 31 hours expires between the time that she's last
00:48:08
seen and then her vehicle and body are found one thing when we talk about suspects
00:48:14
too we talked about how the family says that for the early part of the investigation they believed that it was
00:48:21
possibly a random individual that had killed their daughter and it was a stranger on Stranger attack
00:48:29
I don't know if they just came up with that on their own or if that's what detectives told them that they they
00:48:35
believed but you're exactly right the thing that would back that up is the manner and how
00:48:41
the vehicle is found and how the killer or Killers chose to conceal the body in a place where it most definitely would
00:48:48
be found in relatively quickly but then on top of that you the reverse of that is well the stranger on Stranger attack
00:48:55
there should be a motive and the obvious motives you can say are not a factor here it wasn't
00:49:03
robbery it wasn't sexually motivated there was no sexual assault so that makes it seem much less likely now we
00:49:12
talked about suspects early on or the lack thereof early on in this investigation but what we learn from
00:49:21
the Unsolved Mysteries episode is that about a year so let's get into this real quick Susan
00:49:29
and other female employees at Northwest Airlines were subject to brutal and Relentless
00:49:36
harassment from some of the male Northwest workers Sue started a secret journal in February
00:49:46
of 1989 this to record the behaviors she had was subjected to now for some reason she only kept
00:49:58
documentation of this for about eight months or so but what she did record was shocking
00:50:06
about a year after her death this is when her mother Marlene finally could bring herself
00:50:13
to to go through Susan's things right she was emotionally physically unable to do this
00:50:24
for about a year and then she decides to go through her daughter's things this is when she finds the journal
00:50:34
that her daughter was journaling about this harassment that she was going through at work and she's horrified by
00:50:42
the entries that the journal contained to me when I hear about this journal to me it's more about the fact that she
00:50:49
works she likes her job she's probably making good money and when there's conflict you need to keep detailed notes
00:50:58
when it happened who it happened by because you work in a situation where you do have a union and if you don't
00:51:07
have detailed reports they're just not as likely to believe you according to the UPI The Diary quote detailed almost
00:51:16
daily incidents of harassment and her efforts to report them to the company end quote now Susan's family was so
00:51:25
Disturbed by the shocking revelations of what Susan endured on a daily basis according
00:51:32
to the diary that the taroskowitz believed that their daughter's death Susan's death was 100
00:51:39
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