Doubt

DESCRIPTION:

On this episode of They Walk Among America…  Dawn was just beginning to break in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at around 5:30AM on June 25th, 1979, when a phone call was made to the police. The 911 operator picked up the phone to be met by a man's voice. He ominously commented that police could find a woman’s body in a parked car at a local motel. The officers were dispatched to the parking lot of the Host Inn hotel, a large convention centre motel located around 3 miles from Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Harrisburg Interchange. They approached the red 1978 Plymouth Horizon hatchback and immediately observed that the trunk was partially open. As the officers got closer, they saw a pale arm hanging out of the vehicle. They slowly opened up the trunk to reveal the naked body of a woman…

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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.

This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.

Researched and written by Emily G. Thompson.

Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann.

Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.

MUSIC: 

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin

A Most Sinister Kind by Dresden, The Flamingo

Tension Rising by Third Age

Sussex by Stephen Keech

Down to the Wire by Rhythm Scott

At the Stroke of Midnight by Moments

Darkness Approaches by Louis Lion

Unworld by Lost Ghosts

Blackstone by Lincoln Davis

Jun by Kevin Graham

Spooked by Jshirts

Caffeinated Marimba by JCar

Into by Hill

Recognize by Grant Borland

Titan by Ghostbeatz

Mutual I'm Sure by Fleece Mob

Additional musical compositions by Kory Hilpmann.

For more information, visit https://lawandcrime.com/podcasts/ or https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com/

REFERENCES:

COURT DOCUMENTS

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1989/523-pa-577-1.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1992/532-pa-177-1.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1986/352-pa-super-466-1.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1987/367-pa-super-147-0.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/30/468/2417483/

NEWSPAPERS 

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 June, 1979

The Morning Call, 27 June, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 28 June, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 29 June, 1979

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 July, 1979

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 July, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 18 July, 1979

The Morning Call, 21 July, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 26 July, 1979

Ellwood City Ledger, 9 August, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 31 August, 1979

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2 September, 1979

The Sentinel, 27 August, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 7 September, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 11  September, 1979

Standard-Speaker, 14 September, 1979

The Philadelphia inquirer, 12 October, 1979

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10 November, 1979

Philadelphia Daily News, 23 November, 1979

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 March, 1980

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 March, 1980

Philadelphia Daily News, 13 May, 1980

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 May, 1980

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 June, 1980

The Morning Call, 12 June, 1980

Republican and Herald, 10 July, 1980

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 February, 1981

Tyrone Daily Herald, 24 march, 1981

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 June, 1981

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 31 July, 1981

The Sentinel, 4 August, 1981

Philadelphia Daily News, 22 December, 1982

Philadelphia Daily News, 7 April, 1983

Standard-Speaker, 3 May, 1983

Philadelphia Daily News, 23 July, 1983

Philadelphia Daily News, 11 August, 1983

Philadelphia Daily News, 31 August, 1983

The Morning Call, 16 October, 1983

Philadelphia Daily News, 18 October, 1983

York Daily Record, 20 October, 1983

Philadelphia Daily News, 26 October, 1983

The Gettysburg Times, 25 October, 1983

Philadelphia Daily News, 26 October, 1983

Philadelphia Daily News, 1 November, 1983

The Morning Call, 9 November, 1983

The Morning Call, 9  November, 1983

York Daily Record, 7 December, 1983

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 26 June, 1985

Centre Daily Times, 3 July, 1985

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 July, 1985

The Sentinel, 9 April, 1986

The Sentinel, 11 April, 1986

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 April, 1986

The Daily News, 22 April, 1986

The Times-Tribune, 24 April, 1986

Philadelphia Daily News, 25 April, 1986

The Philadelphia Daily News, 26 April, 1986

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 May, 1986

Tyrone Daily Herald, 19 November, 1987

The Morning Call, 13 May, 1988

NEWSBANK

Philadelphia Daily News (PA), July 14, 1988

Patriot-News, The (Harrisburg, PA), February 17, 1989

Patriot-News, The (Harrisburg, PA), December 23, 1989

Philadelphia Daily News (PA), March 16, 1990

Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA), May 3, 1992

Deseret News, The (Salt Lake City, UT), September 19, 1992

Sunday News (Lancaster, PA), September 20, 1992

Lancaster New Era (PA), September 16, 1993

Delaware County Daily Times (Primos - Upper Darby, PA), January 17, 1998

Associated Press Archive, September 4, 1998

Mercury, The (Pottstown, PA), November 17, 2008