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Speaker 1: When do you want me to start. I'm writing to

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Speaker 1: you to request the following information in regards to the untimely, violent,

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Speaker 1: and unwitnessed death of my daughter Sanda and Bill. This

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Speaker 1: marks forty one years without her with no answers. John

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Speaker 1: Bale sent this letter to law enforcement a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: asking them to reopen the investigation into the death of

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Speaker 1: her teenage daughter, Sandy Beale. I didn't take any of

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Speaker 1: that crap because I could tell that they were hiding something.

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Speaker 1: My name is Melissa Jolson. I'm a reporter who covers

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Speaker 1: violence against women, and over the years, I've gotten a

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Speaker 1: lot of tips about stories, people asking me to look

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Speaker 1: into the greatest injustice of their lives for Joe Anne

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Speaker 1: and her family. That's Sandy's mysterious death. In Sandy was

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Speaker 1: found shot to death in her car. There's no way,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just no way that there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. Her death was ruled a suicide,

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Speaker 1: but the Bell family didn't buy the official story. Instead,

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Speaker 1: they suspected a cover up. I said, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: something you can put any damn thing you want down.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that happened. That way, and I wasn't

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Speaker 1: very nice to him because I think they were skunken

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Speaker 1: us all the way around. To this day, the Bell

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Speaker 1: family remains convinced that there's more to Sandy's story than

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Speaker 1: the police led on. I've when looking for this police

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Speaker 1: report for decades and they set the building burned down,

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Speaker 1: and he goes, the building never burned down. I'm work

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Speaker 1: aft of it, and it's about a seventy five year

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Speaker 1: old building. That building never burned down. And so that

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Speaker 1: got my you know, blood boiling. And to be honest,

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Speaker 1: I sensed it too, because when Sandy was found dead,

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Speaker 1: it suddenly a lot of people very nervous. Well, this

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Speaker 1: is the whole thing about predation. It works better for

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Speaker 1: the predator if your victim is vulnerable. And what more

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Speaker 1: vulnerable plays than, you know, a desperate young person. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't sure what I'd find, but I knew where I'd start,

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Speaker 1: with Sandy's own words, because Sandy, well, she kept meticulous records,

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Speaker 1: writing down the names and numbers of the people she

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Speaker 1: met and the places she went. Sander could have been

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Speaker 1: retired by now, she's doing a life sex feet underground.

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Speaker 1: In my new podcast, What Happened to Sandy Beale. I

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Speaker 1: follow the clue Sandy left behind, and I discover a

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Speaker 1: secretive world that Sandy was trying to join, a world

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Speaker 1: not so friendly to women. She had a lot going

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Speaker 1: for her. I can't imagine in one year things going

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Speaker 1: that tragically wrong. Listen to What Up Into Sandy Beal

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Speaker 1: starting March nine on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts