Ellery Jane Doe: The Greatest Mystery of All - Part 1
4/27/202638 min
Link: For 43 years, nobody has known her name. In December 1983, a young mother was shot four times and her body dumped on a remote New York highway. She had no identification. Nobody reported her missing.
She was buried as Ellery Jane Doe — named after the town where she was found — and has remained unidentified ever since. The FBI couldn't name her. Interpol couldn't. Homicide detectives couldn't. But Catching Evil listeners have blown this case wide open — placing serial killer Christopher Wilder in New York just 48 hours before her body was found, and cracking a coded note found in her coat pocket that had defeated experts for decades.
Now, cold case detectives are asking our worldwide true crime audience to make the final connection. Listen to the episode, then go to our podcast blog and look at Ellery Jane Doe's photographs. Share the link with everyone you know, particularly if they are overseas.
Link: https://www.catchingevil.com/post/episode-16-ellery-jane-doe
Give this murdered mother her real name back and solve a murder.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Tom Tarpley· Guest0:34
[digital tone] [siren wailing] My name is Tom Tarpley, cold case investigator, Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office in New York State.
Hayden Bergeson· Guest0:47
And my name is Hayden Bergeson. I'm the crime analyst with the department, and we need your help to solve a very cold case.
Tom Tarpley· Guest0:54
A beautiful woman, a mother, has been brutally killed. We still don't know her name or her killer, but we have a person of interest.
Hayden Bergeson· Guest1:02
Christopher Wilder.
Tom Tarpley· Guest1:03
Rest assured, we are determined to solve this, and this podcast, with its global reach, could help us get there.
Speaker 41:10
Catching Evil, Episode 16: Ellery Jane Doe: The Greatest Mystery of All, Part 1.
Speaker 51:18
And a warning: this podcast contains adult content and listener discretion is advised.
Mark Llewellyn· Host1:24
Hi, I'm Mark.
Andy Byrne· Host1:25
And I'm Andy. Welcome to Catching Evil. And in this episode, we need