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talk some true crime [Music] a year after Susan Tasco wit's murder Sue's mom Marlene could finally bring
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herself to go through Susan's things this is when she found a journal authored by her daughter and inside it
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contained her horrific entries again according to the UPI the diary detailed almost daily incidents of
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harassment and her efforts to report them to the company so these are detailed writings about incidents that
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took place at her workplace at Sue's workplace of harassment that she endured and her efforts to attempt to report
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them to her higher ups at the company well I think what this does for them investigation as we know or we've heard
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rumors about the harassment about the conflicts at work but now we have a detail report so now it's going to give
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us some suspects to look into and keep in mind the evidence at the scene where her body is
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found in the vehicle her vehicle that her body's found in the trunk that evidence didn't lead police to any
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suspects of note it's only going to be this discovery of this journal this diary
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that will eventually lead them to suspects and we're going to see immediately why right now we have her
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family Susan's family they're so Disturbed and shocked by the revelations of what Susan endured at work that in
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March of 1994 so remember she's killed in '92 in September of '92 in March of 1994 her
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family filed a complaint on Susan's behalf the complaint alleged that the airline and its employees labor union
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had done nothing to stop this ongoing harassment but they also had another goal besides just avenging the
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unacceptable workplace Behavior they hoped that the complaint would then there's going to be
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an investigation that will take place based off of their complaint that would have nothing to do with the murder or
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the murder investigation but they're hoping that investigation would help to flush out information about who killed
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their loved one and remember we finished yesterday's show by saying her family believed 100% that her death her murder
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was connected to her workplace yeah I think there's two schools of thought one did she go out to her vehicle was she
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attacked there did she get into to her vehicle and go to pick up these sandwiches and get attacked over there
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by a random stranger or was this a planned attack by somebody that she was having
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conflicts at work I think if this crime took place today the first thing they would have done is round up everybody on
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that shift anybody that she had a conflict with and collect DNA the Massachusetts commission against
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discrimination the mcad investigated this complaint filed by Susan's family the mcad reviewed the
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writings in Susan's journal and testimony affidavits of five Northwest employees including two men which stated
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the following a giant lewd character of Susan was scrolled on the inside cargo hold of a Northwest plane where Susan
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would be guaranteed to see it the drawing was sexually explicit with her legs spread spr wide and was clearly
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intended to demean and degrade her other findings include these graffiti around the airport's cargo
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areas mentioned Susan's performing oral sex there was a drawing of a coffin with
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her name on it that was left in the women's bathroom there were words like [ __ ] [ __ ] and [ __ ] that were scrolled
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with her name well not her official name but remember many people called her Sue
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just simply Su right and so these horrible words they're written on walls in graffiti or written on walls in the
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restrooms with her name Sue T attached to it so not exactly her name but it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out
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this is somebody saying terrible stuff about this woman yeah and this is very bizarre to me I'm I've never worked in a
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workplace that this kind of activity took place well it gets it gets stranger man
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like there's female undergarments and tampons that were commonly scattered around the break room the employee break
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room and even hung from the ceiling the break room was littered with pornographic magazines including nudie
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posters uh taped to the fridge male workers including a supervisor would expose themselves
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there's at least one report of of some of a male employee or supervisor peeing in people's
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drinks yeah I mean this is I mean I've had people that have severely not liked other co-workers but would not waste
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their time or their energy on doing things like this this is when I go if I'm an
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employee F first off I'm I'm couldn't be out the door faster but yeah once I hear
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about you pissing in drinks uh Captain's gone but then on top of that and I'm not
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faulting sue for sticking with this job I mean her journal is detailing her attempts to report these items or
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efforts to say hey there's something bad going on at this workplace and maybe her
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being a good person a good-natured person thought that the problems would eventually go away if she took the right
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steps the steps that she was probably told to do hey you know file a complaint with this file a complaint with that but
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that's the problem sometimes with with unions though is they're set up to protect you but they're also sub to to
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protect your co-workers but you see this kind of behavior and I'm sitting there if I'm an employee going you're kidding
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me I have to pay into a union and this is what I have to witness at work yeah or be afraid somebody's going to piss in
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your drink I mean come on there first of all there's and I get it it's 1992 1990
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you know this stuff according to the the Wilder times the journal starts taking place in 1989 and no and I'm I'm not
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saying that that's why I get it I'm just I there will be somebody that will email
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me and say hey man it was a different time it's like I don't know I wasn't old enough to work back then but I can say
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this like I don't think that pornography is it should be in the workplace at anytime anywhere and I mean
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unless you're in the pornography business then right then it should be everywhere it should be everywhere but I
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mean this stuff dude I when we started to go through this I couldn't believe what I was reading and at first I had I
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was like this has to be embellished yeah exaggerated and no there's five there's five other she
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journaled about it there's five other employees that were willing to testify and sign sworn affidavits that this is
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what I witnessed when I worked there yeah cuz I could see I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that
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something happens where somebody didn't get a job they feel like they got screwed over and they drew a character
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you know obscene character somewhere in the office and then she saw it got upset
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and that's that's the end of that but for it to continue and then to escalate and then to have managers that are
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exposing themselves yeah and then you have a situation there was one report of Susan having been shoved To The Ground
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by another employee um there is some thought by these individuals that signed the
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affidavits and that were giving um uh statements for this harassment investigation that states that it is
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their belief I'm not saying all five because I've not been able to review all the statements here but at least one of
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these individuals believed that because Susan filed complaints about these other
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grievances that she was assigned to work the lav truck for a period of time emptying the toilets for a period of
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time in a way that like you can punish a person without it being obvious that you're punishing a person we're going to
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make you work third shift and by the way you need to empty out the pee PE and poo
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poo there were a couple female employees gave Anonymous affidavits because they were worried about some kind of
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retaliation for giving statements but at least one of them said quote I often saw
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Sue crying at work several statements said that the women were told by the union representatives to not rock the
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boat uh Susan's diary apparently said that that when Sue complained about the harassment both unofficially and in the
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form of official complaints filed with the airline she was told to just let it go you know just just roll with it take
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the high road and you know look away and what she should have done is just rolled
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her ass out to her car and never looked back because sometimes you can't fix stupid so I was really hoping to put be
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able to put some actual names to some of this harassment right who was the one conducting or behaving this way
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and who specifically seem to be targeting Susan our victim right we don't want any of this harassment to
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happen at the workplace at all but for the sake of this week's case the what's most important is what was happening to
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Susan and who was administering that yeah so here is one incident where we do actually get a name so there this is
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referred to as the radio incident this involved a coworker who sue had briefly dated now that that's the only knowledge
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I have briefly dated I don't know if that meant like one date two dates went out together were known as a couple for
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a couple months I I don't know the extent of that but apparently what happened is that we do
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know that things turn sour between them at some point and it is stated that this
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individual his name is Bobby Brooks it's stated that he's one of the worst defenders in terms of his treatment of
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Sue at work so let's talk sounds like a jackass like if I was going to write a character in
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you know from the 80s and go John Hughes movie I I need a jackass character Bobby
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Brooks so there's this radio incident and the way that Sue described the radio incident in her diary she dated it April
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12th 1989 Bobby came into the breakroom and she wrote that Bobby picked up and dropped purposely picked up and dropped
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her radio violently onto a table and then he looks at her and says that he was mad because the Bruins
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lost and Susan's diary entry continues saying quote he left the room and one of my co-workers picked up the radio and
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plugged it in to see if it still worked Bobby came back into the room and this time he ensured that the radio would be
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broken by throwing it hard against the break room wall Sue of course anybody would be upset about this situation you
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have your personal property destroyed for no reason at all by this meat head that you work with right but Sue is
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especially upset about this because her mother gave her this radio for Christmas
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for as a gift and so this is you know you take take the radio to work you have something to listen to in the background
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while you're working and this man destroys your personal property well to me if I'm long law enforcement I'm
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looking at this as a that's to me a violent threat mhm it's you know I can't get physical with you because you're a
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woman and so people would look down upon that or or maybe instantly get fired or
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whatever but I'll break this and if they come to me and say well why did you do this I I'll claim it's an accident but
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to me this is this is a violent threat well and here's something that that is a violent threat as well here Captain so
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sue has a boyfriend at the time he's also an airport employee and he demands tells Bobby that
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he has to replace the broken radio the radio that Bobby broke yeah I'm going to you replace the radio or I'm going to
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break your face of course Bobby being a raging [ __ ] did not replace the radio so sue then later
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reminds him hey you owe me a radio I thought you're going to replace this radio and according to her diary when
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she tells him reminds him to buy her a radio he says his response is what are you going to do send your punk boyfriend
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over here again is he going to beat me up he's lucky I didn't kill him see again violent threat I hope if this guy
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didn't end up going to jail I hope and if he had children I hope one of them's listening in their hearing that's my
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father and wow what a giant pile of [ __ ] he is because this this is no way to treat
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anybody there are some other situations where we do have persons that are named so this is in April of
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1989 and this is when Sue attempts to break up a fist fight that's going on between an individual his name is Joseph
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nuo and in case I'm not saying that correctly Captain it's nuu Z Zo and this seems to have sparked some
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trouble between Joseph and Sue going forward in fact there's a situation where he it's reported that he very
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loudly cussed her out at the workplace so who was he fighting do we have an idea of who he was in doing the fisted
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cuffs with no but the interesting thing here is probably Bobby well the one thing we should note is that
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Bobby Brooks and Sue what we do know is they actually and I'm guessing this is based off of what their job duties were
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in the Departments that they worked in but it is of note that they actually had very little interaction with one
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another with a few exceptions and we know of those exceptions because they are recorded in her diary and then
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backed up by the state M of some of these other workers right so these two really actually didn't interact very
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much at all at work together and then this Joseph newo individual I don't know who he's fighting against but it
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wouldn't be uncommon for if there were to be some kind of disagreement that gets to this point where people were up
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in each other's faces fist fight is always a very vague description to me you would think that it actually means
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Fister being thrown but a lot of times there can be just a pushing just a crowd of people uh but it wouldn't be uncommon
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for the person breaking up this situation to be the boss or the supervisor right but what it seems like
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is he then has a problem with her for breaking this situation up there's no mention of these other individuals
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because I don't think they I think they probably expected whatever was happening
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to be broken up they're probably happy that they weren't fired for that kind of behavior at work yeah this case is so
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bizarre so Joseph because of this fist of cuffs because he cursed out his boss his Superior he gets a little vacation
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he gets a little suspension from work the old enforced impromptu vacation from work now we do need to note that during
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the time that he is away from work on this suspension Susan's vehicle was keyed her tires were
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slashed there were Anonymous Crank phone calls that came to her home uh there were some phone calls that came to the
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home that said that uh that that they were seeking revenge and it's hard to know because she was
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having conflicts with other individuals it's hard to know if this was Joseph doing this or not
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yeah it but it seems like it's yeah it sounds to me Captain like it's there's not 100% proof that Joseph nuo did all
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of this stuff but it sounds like there's a pretty strong argument against him and
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a pretty good uh group that agrees that yes he was the one doing these actions so she was having conflicts with him she
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was having conflicts with uh Bobby was there anybody else we know so here here's one thing that I think makes this
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a little bit difficult we do have Bobby Brooks who we know had a problem with Sue and that was clear he broke the
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radio he harassed her but then we have the situation with Joseph nuo and according to Bobby Brooks
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Joseph nuo tells him that in regard to Susan that oh he will get his revenge I will get get revenge against Susan right
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the problem with that is it it's like one bad guy pointing at the other bad guy right two
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two people that that should be suspects you got one pointing at the other saying
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well he told me that he would get his revenge against Susan and remember she started her job five years ago and it
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seems like for the whole five years there there was almost like an escalation of this type of behavior at
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her work and like we said we see these drawings we have these people breaking items cursing her out at
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work I think a uh like I said a violent threat when you're breaking her personal
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belongings but also kind of a threat when you see a coffin with her name on it but then
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there's also actual verbal death threats exactly the the report on this is is a little loose so I want to be
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careful on how we report it but from my understanding Captain remember we said earlier that usually when there's
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conflicts amongst people there people naturally choose a side they'll pick a side not everybody but most people do
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and in this situation seems to be no different so sue did have her supporters at work you know people that witness
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this and people this you know she's being unfairly treated these people are harassing her this isn't right we have
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her back and those people later told the Boston Herold that because we made it known that we support
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her that we received threats some stating death threats from the people that had chose the other side that's
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crazy now we did see reports that Sue's car and her friend's Vehicles were vandalized in fact in the months before
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Susan's death Sue filed two more more complaints with the Union this is the International Association of machinists
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and Aerospace workers the first complaint was for unfair treatment in the awarding of the supervisory
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assignments we talked about that briefly yesterday right the second complaint was because her vehicle was
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vandalized in the lot where she parked it while at work at the airport according to the Boston Globe her car
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was vandalized after she filed the first complaint but it was unclear whether this occurred because she filed the
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complaint the union source told the globe her car was messed up they scratched the paint end quote this had
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moved Way Beyond Simple workplace harassment this is systemic bullying escalating to property damage
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[Music] all right we are back cheers mates cheers to you Colonel onward and upward
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I'm going to file several grievances about my workplace here well I did piss in your coffee so in November of
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1989 tinkle tinkle the union received several letters from one of Susan's co-workers his name is Christopher he
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he's known as Kip uh hedges in these letters he also complained of being harassed at work
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and one of these incidents he says included somebody drew a pistol Target with 11 bullet holes and it taped to a
00:30:51
refrigerator they they drew this and they taped it to the refrigerator in the break room and above the the target with
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the 11 bullet holes it said kill hedges he stated that a tiny gang of workers had developed a pattern of violence and
00:31:08
threats at the workplace so he he writes this letter and then in filings with the
00:31:14
mcad Mr Hedges asserted that he too had been assaulted by this Joseph nuo he said for what reason he did not
00:31:23
know why this worker coworker would assault him right after receiving the letters from Christopher Hedges the
00:31:33
union says it held an open meeting on the issue of tensions among employees so there there are they are stating here
00:31:41
that yes we identified that there were tensions among employees and what they did Captain was
00:31:49
they later published an article in their newsletter nobody reads the work newsletter
00:31:56
nerd but but in an article well then I'm going to start I'm going to stop writing
00:32:00
one every week so later the union published an article in its newsletter condemning sexual harassment and
00:32:08
workplace intimidation that should go without saying but glad that they put that in print for us yeah exactly but
00:32:17
what I'm getting at is that's all they're going to do when you have multiple employees multiple members of
00:32:23
your union trying to point out hey there's some really severe problems here at this workplace they're like oh you
00:32:29
know what don't worry we got it under control we're going to write an article in the newsletter it'll straighten
00:32:35
everything out yeah we have people pissing and coffee I'm sure these these words are going to they're going to sink
00:32:41
right to their heartstrings and it's not just women that are complaining like you
00:32:45
said there's men complaining and again stupid or lazy like why why aren't they doing their job like they did their job
00:32:51
Captain they issued a standard memo condemning sexual harassment they they they that's the champion I want to work for
00:32:59
so that's kind of a long way around to get back to the point that Susan's family filed a lawsuit for the
00:33:06
harassment that she did face that nobody basically tried to stop nobody did anything about and she had to live in
00:33:14
this tortured environment they sue the company and they win yeah that that's the short of it and that's a good way to
00:33:22
sum this up because there's really a lot that you could tear through here and it
00:33:26
will kind of muck up our story but good by the Massachusetts commission against discrimination because they did their
00:33:34
investigation and goodby Susan's parents and family to come up with this idea and
00:33:40
this strategy that look you know we refuse to to understand that our daughter was
00:33:49
treated unfairly it may or may not have anything to do with her murder but we refuse to not write this WR wrong and so
00:33:58
they took this complaint to the mcad and later this would be 1995 captain that the
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mcad they ruled in Susan's favor and her family's favor they said that they found
00:34:15
very compelling evidence that Northwest had failed to protect Susan from the harassment she suffered at the hands of
00:34:23
her colleagues yeah but this lawsuit's not going to bring back their loved one somebody murdered
00:34:30
her placed her in her trunk and left the vehicle what it did do Captain Northwest
00:34:37
Airlines then agreed to settle with the family with Susan's family for $75,000 but on top of that
00:34:47
and you would hope that this would have led somewhere but here we are talking about this case so many years later but
00:34:54
they did agree Northwest Airlines did agree to post a $250,000 reward for information leading
00:35:01
to Susan's killer and to establish a scholarship in her name at the time at that time this amounted to the largest
00:35:11
sexual harassment award the commission had ever dealt with a spokesman for the airline said to the Boston Globe quote
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we are with the parents entirely to help find who did this to their daughter and
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quote only after they were forced to be of course we kind of remind everybody of
00:35:28
that only after they were forced to be it was a bit of a hollow Victory let's say for the family because it didn't as
00:35:37
you pointed out didn't bring Susan back never could bring Susan back but at least there would be some Headway in
00:35:45
Susan's murder investigation well and this is probably goes without saying but if you're in a
00:35:52
situation where you're being harassed at work and the people that are supposed to
00:35:56
help protect you and or supposed to help make it be at least a place that you feel safe you
00:36:04
know looking back on my life now as as we talk about this case there's one or two times that I was working a job man I
00:36:11
should have left months before I did because once the person that is bullying you sees that there's no
00:36:21
consequence it just gets worse yeah they can act with an impunity yeah and life is just way too short so you know and
00:36:29
that's but some of that is self-care self-love if I cared about myself enough if if I would have uh loved myself
00:36:37
enough that maybe I would have said this is not correct and nobody's helping me here and it's just a job and it's time
00:36:43
to move on right but why was Susan killed okay was it the harassment cover up the harassment or somebody just just
00:36:52
had it in for her so bad that they had to get rid of her I think people can see Avenues to that
00:37:00
idea real quick but the harassment is actually just the tip of the iceberg into potential motives here especially
00:37:08
potential motives when we talk about persons or suspects from her workplace so there was something else
00:37:14
going on at the time this is a lot of criminal activity on a much grander scale and was Susan aware of this has
00:37:24
she witnessed something was she privy to some information that could get some people into some severe trouble here so
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remember Susan was in charge of the baggage handlers and what's going on at this time US mail
00:37:43
bags passed through Logan Airport every day and those mail bags back then included brand new credit cards shipped
00:37:53
by the Banks to their users in the Boston and around the Boston area in 1991 a federal investigation by the
00:38:02
Secret Service and the Massachusetts State Police and the US Postal Service was launched into a massive theft of credit
00:38:12
card investigation from us mailbags at the Logan Airport eventually the credit card theft
00:38:20
probe revealed that $7 million in stolen credit cards had been lifted from that airp from the Logan Airport well that's
00:38:28
a motive and so how many people were involved in this well the thing is is I don't think there's any mention of this
00:38:39
in her diary or the journals of the complaints that she was making but that doesn't matter if the
00:38:49
person is suspicious that you possibly know that's all they need to know to have the motive to try to take you
00:38:58
out if that makes any sense well exactly and what we end up learning and this is
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from The Wall Street Journal is that the thieves were using the computers at Northwest to go through the mail and
00:39:15
then eventually what they're doing is they're ripping open sealed mail where they believe that there are
00:39:21
credit cards in there and as we said there was enough theft going on and theft of these credit cards that it
00:39:29
eventually racked up $7 million in fraudulent charges so the possibilities that we've laid out so far
00:39:38
is that she heads out on her lunch break and she is met with a stranger at some point the other possibility is because
00:39:48
of this harassment at work somebody has it out has a vendetta against Susan the the other possibility is there is
00:39:58
criminal activity done by one or multiple people and if they were suspicious to believe that Susan knew more than they
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wanted her to know that that would be a motive for this crime as well and I'm going to throw in a couple of other
00:40:16
suspects here before we get to one I want to point out the idea that the harassers and the thieves could be one
00:40:25
and the same or a couple that were involved in both right had multiple motives now this is interesting too some
00:40:33
of the the cards that were sold they're stolen and then they're sold to a fence in a nearby town of Riv sound familiar
00:40:42
that's the same town where Susan's body was found for 10% of their available credit
00:40:50
so there's a little bit of a connection there now others were used by the actual
00:40:55
Airport workers to buy merchandise such as cam quarters and expensive items that's not real smart because they're
00:41:03
going to be easily Trace back to those individuals that are working at Logan Airport but there were some aspects to
00:41:10
this that were a that point out that it was a wellth thought out criminal Enterprise so what we have here Captain
00:41:17
the thieves stole the credit cards and then generated fake driver's licenses to match the names on the cards they then
00:41:25
used used the activated cards to buy jewelry and obtain cash advances in casinos in Vegas Atlantic City and
00:41:34
Foxwoods but much more than just credit card theft and fraud was at play here according to the Boston Globe the plot
00:41:41
involved a mafia likee corrupt organization which had its hands in Lone sharking drugs bedding and fraud the
00:41:50
ring was rooted in the orient Heights section of East Boston in fact that newspaper reported that much illegal
00:41:59
activity occurring at Logan Airport was mob sanctioned a secret service agent worked undercover at the Northwest
00:42:08
terminal during the credit card fraud investigation and gathered evidence of illegal activity connected to the mafia
00:42:15
and controlled by organized crime extending to the North Shore of Boston and here is where we tie it back to some
00:42:22
of Susan's harassers in a April through August of 1992 a Federal grand jury looked into the credit card theft ring
00:42:32
on August 4th several baggage handlers received subpoenas from the grand jury according to several sources the baggage
00:42:40
handlers grand jury testimony revealed that Joseph nuo believed that Sue had either told
00:42:49
the police about the scheme or plan to help them faret out the masterminds nuo told your boy Bobby
00:42:59
Brooks that he believed Sue was quote the rat the government had hard evidence showing that in August of
00:43:09
1992 just after nuo and Brooks and other credit card thieves had learned that federal agents were on to them newo
00:43:18
stated that he bet Sue was the snitch or the rat that's August of 1992 Susan is killed in September of 1992 yeah
00:43:30
coincidence I I think not my friend but nuo one of the harassers one of the people that Susan got into at least well
00:43:41
one time she was cursed out by this individual the one that had a suspension and we thought maybe during that
00:43:47
suspension he was vandalizing her vehicle but he later on was fired yeah he's fired in August AUST
00:43:56
actually August 14th of 1992 and that's why I wanted to point out early on when we started talking about the details of
00:44:03
this case where her vehicle was found in close proximity to that bar that was frequented by a bunch of the employees
00:44:12
at that Logan airport now I can't tie newo to that specific bar or being one of the persons that frequented that bar
00:44:20
but it's interesting to me because you brought up the idea and and rightfully so it's on everybody's mind how many
00:44:26
killers were involved or how many people set her up how many people did it take to
00:44:33
orchestrate what we do know did in fact happen what we do know based off of what
00:44:38
the police tell us is they believe and there's no reason for them to tell us this if if they don't have evidence to
00:44:45
suggest this they believe that she was killed elsewhere well if she was killed elsewhere she did not drive her vehicle
00:44:52
to where it was later found somebody else did and either they walked away or somebody
00:44:58
picked them up did they walk back to that bar catch a ride with somebody that couldn't be at
00:45:06
work anymore or did somebody that wasn't at work that night pick up the driver of
00:45:13
that vehicle I mean you can see how this plays out and now we start to bring and
00:45:21
pull identified individuals into the suspect spotlight yeah so this is where it gets a little
00:45:28
tricky because of her journal we we know that she obviously knew about the harassment and the bullying and she knew
00:45:37
who was doing it and she could tell us who did what and when there is no evidence that we can
00:45:47
find that Sue knew what was going on as far as the credit card stealing correct there's there's not proof positive that
00:45:56
she absolutely knew uh you would think that she probably had some idea that something
00:46:03
strange or officially was going on I mean she it's a large operation and she's in a supervisor role
00:46:11
so it's going on right under her nose essentially uh one thing that was reported here captain that is of
00:46:19
interest that would indicate maybe she knew something was going on was the investigation one thing that
00:46:26
yielded was that when they were divvying up the credit cards after illegally ripping them out of the
00:46:34
mail that this typically would take place in the breakroom lunch hours she leaves for lunch to pick up
00:46:44
lunch for people but also one of her uh task if you will as a supervisor was she
00:46:52
would make assignments including the baggage handlers as well well as regulate their lunch hours their their
00:46:59
their break hours of the workers right so did this once she remember she got the new promotion shortly before she
00:47:08
disappears for 24 30 hours and then is found dead so given this new power this new
00:47:17
Authority did she somehow shake up and make it so that the players involved in the scheme were not on break together at
00:47:25
the same time time not in the break room together at the same time well that's what I was saying to you off Mike
00:47:33
is we don't know if she knew right but that doesn't matter if somebody a part of this plan thinks she knows then
00:47:43
that's a motive to get rid of her and it could have been as simple as she gets in
00:47:48
control and decides hey I'm going to shake things up a little bit by switching people's lunch switching
00:47:56
people's lunch schedules and she might not even known that by doing so that foils their
00:48:04
operation and and so if they go hey is there any way to get me back on this schedule or this one and she says no
00:48:12
this is just the way it is again that's that's a you're stealing millions of dollars yeah that's that is motive
00:48:22
enough whether she knows or not that she's fo foiling our operation we have to get rid of
00:48:31
her yeah and here's the thing the credit card theft in fraud Ling sorry and here's the thing the credit card theft
00:48:39
in fraud ring was a massive operation eventually 37 people were convicted on federal charges related to this 7.5
00:48:49
million corrupt Enterprise 10 of them were Northwest employees including some baggage handlers five Northwest baggage
00:48:58
handlers had been indicted as of September of 1993 this is Christopher Sweeney cleave fedick Thomas Cooney
00:49:06
Richard Bart and Richard Raymond it also makes you wonder because these people are in cahoots together and they
00:49:14
have F Financial means do you plays a hit on her and hey we'll be at work when this takes place
00:49:25
so none will be the wiser according to the UPI four specific baggage handlers Susan
00:49:33
had expressly named as her harassers were among those convicted in the fraud case one of the men who would be
00:49:40
convicted in the federal case in fact The Mastermind behind the whole thing was Joseph
00:49:47
nuo he had started the operation shortly after returning to work after his suspension brought about partially by
00:49:55
Susan testimony and don't think we haven't forgot about old [ __ ] stain Bobby Brooks cuz he was indicted as well yeah
00:50:05
convicted he was a peripheral player I it seems like he himself did not steal any of the charge cards but he was
00:50:15
caught shopping with Joseph nuo using the stolen cards and he he played he definitely played a
00:50:23
role in this because he was in fact convicted on some of the charges well the harassment also seems just it just
00:50:31
seems like over the top like I said I've never experienced that kind of level of
00:50:37
bullying I mean I've experienced some hostile workplaces but you almost wonder if it was like a a
00:50:48
ruse by having all this harassment and all this tension at work that maybe you won't notice what else we're doing
00:50:56
your hands will be so filled with this other nonsense that we bring to the table but with all this going on at work
00:51:04
the harassment this I mean this massive fraud that is happening to me it would lean more
00:51:14
towards somebody that's in her Inner Circle that's responsible for her death it' be it just seems like it would be
00:51:20
too big of a coincidence that just some random attacker would would attack her at
00:51:28
work yeah it's difficult because we are certainly missing some pieces of the puzzle in fact to this day no one knows
00:51:35
for sure whether Sue knew anything about the criminal activity at the North that
00:51:40
the Northwest employees were involved in it does seem crazy to think that she didn't know though officials later said
00:51:47
that a lot of people knew about what was going on the number of people involved in the ring was close to 40 as we
00:51:54
pointed out and and Sue's friend Deb who we've talked about previously said that
00:52:00
one day shortly before her death Sue told her that she was afraid now of what Sue did not say it seems likely and Deb
00:52:11
letter later says that looking back in retrospect that she just thought that she was
00:52:18
afraid to stand up for herself and file complaints about the harassment but now she looks back and wonders
00:52:25
did Sue know some something else did she know more was she saying she was afraid
00:52:31
for her life in 2002 investigators decided to reexamine this case including retesting
00:52:38
any evidence I'm guessing hopefully physical evidence that was found in her vehicle
00:52:45
at this time the police decided to release photos of Sue missing necklace in case someone recognized the
00:52:53
medallions one of the biggest knowing questions is where was Susan murdered this according to the district attorney
00:53:03
now they do not believe that Sue was killed in her car which means she was taken somewhere else bound beaten
00:53:11
stabbed before she was dumped at that Bravo mechanic location found in the trunk of
00:53:20
her car in 2008 Northwest merged with Delta a Airlines Delta has pledged to honor
00:53:28
that $250,000 reward that Northwest originally offered for information and Sue's case Massachusetts State Police
00:53:36
say they are still actively working Sue's case and they have significant leads well and with this case happening
00:53:43
what over 30 years ago you wonder what evidence they have to possibly test with new
00:53:51
technology that's exactly right captain and where're told that they're keeping this investigation alive God bless her
00:53:58
mother because we know that she's been out front actively keeping this investigation very much alive and very
00:54:05
much on the minds of the general public they did put up some billboards with uh not only a picture of Susan but also a
00:54:15
picture of her blue Toyota tcell and asking people did you see Susan or did you see the vehicle or
00:54:25
both on the night in question September 12th September 13th did you see this vehicle the other
00:54:34
thing too we don't know exactly when the vehicle was placed there in the lot as we said there's roughly about 30 hours
00:54:41
that expired from the time it's believed that she was last seen until the time that the vehicle was discovered last
00:54:47
year in 2022 the state police made the following statement quote we make a plea to anyone who can help us crossed the
00:54:56
last few miles of this Marathon investigation if you have any information about Susan's murder or the
00:55:03
person or people who may have been involved please contact us whatever reason you had for remaining silent
00:55:10
Until Now does not matter anymore time passes and people change maybe you were scared maybe you were protecting someone
00:55:19
or maybe you just did not want to get involved in a police investigation yet time passes people
00:55:25
change so too do priorities and the reasons for keeping quiet maybe don't seem so important anymore not when
00:55:33
compared to the chance to do the right thing before it's too late and it's not too late anyone with such information is
00:55:41
asked to call the state police detective unit for Su County at 617 727 [Music] 8817
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[Music] thanks to each and every one of you for joining us here in the garage again this
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00:56:18
jurisdiction please find our contact information on our website true Crim garage.com Colonel do we have any
00:56:25
recommended reading for the beautiful listeners this week Captain we are recommending Without a Trace and this is
00:56:33
largely in part because this book and the case featured in this book the fight of the victims mother reminds me so much
00:56:42
of the case that we featured here in the garage this week you're going to want to
00:56:46
check this one out it's an oldie but a goodie the case is fascinating but the most fascinating part is the courage and
00:56:54
the strength that we all can get from being witness to This Woman's fight for her missing daughter back in
00:57:04
1974 17-year-old Amy billig left her home to meet a friend for lunch and vanished and her mother spent decades
00:57:15
searching for her daughter you're going to want to check out this book it's called Without a Trace you can find that
00:57:21
great title and many more other wonderful recommendations on our recommended page on our website
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true Crim garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't [Music] litter
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[Music] [Music] my sister won't be quiet screaming the same song long all drive and my dad keeps giving me
00:58:32
unsolicited life advice now my mom's taking selfies and tagging my friends and the dog just threw up all
00:58:46
over my shoes why does none of this bother me could it be this spous come be the spacious new Volkswagen Atlas it
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