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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 Beale. This

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

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Speaker 1: and Biale sent this letter to law enforcement a few

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Speaker 1: years ago, asking them to reopen the investigation into the

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Speaker 1: death of her teenage daughter, Sandy Beal. I didn't take

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Speaker 1: any of that crap because I could tell that they

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Speaker 1: were hiding something. My name is Melissa Jelson. I'm a

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Speaker 1: reporter who covers violence against women, and over the years,

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Speaker 1: I've gotten a lot of tips about stories, people asking

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Speaker 1: me to look into the greatest injustice of their lives

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Speaker 1: for Joe Anne and her family. That's Sandy's mysterious death

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven. And Sandy was found shot to

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Speaker 1: death in her car. Oh, like, there's no way, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just no way that it's going to be.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't believe it. Her death was ruled a suicide, but

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Speaker 1: the Beial family didn't buy the official story. Instead, they

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Speaker 1: suspected a cover up. I says, you know something, you

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Speaker 1: can put any damn thing you want down. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean it happened that way. And I wasn't very nice

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Speaker 1: to him because I think they were skunk in us

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Speaker 1: all the way around. To this day, the Beial family

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Speaker 1: remains convinced that there's more to Sandy's story than the police.

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Speaker 1: Let on, I've been looking for this police report for decades,

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Speaker 1: and they set the building burned down, and he goes,

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Speaker 1: the building never burned down. I'm work out of it,

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Speaker 1: and it's about a seventy five year old building. That

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Speaker 1: building never burned down. And so that got my you know,

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Speaker 1: blood boiling. And to be honest, I sensed it too,

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Speaker 1: because when Sandy was found dead, it suddenly made a

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Speaker 1: lot of people very nervous. Well, this is the whole

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Speaker 1: thing about predation. It works better for the predator if

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Speaker 1: your victim is vulnerable. And what more vulnerable place than

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Speaker 1: a desperate young person. I wasn't sure what I'd find,

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Speaker 1: but I knew where I'd start, with Sandy's own words,

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Speaker 1: because Sandy, well, she kept meticulous records, writing down the

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Speaker 1: names and numbers of the people she met and the

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Speaker 1: places she went. Sandra could have been retired by now,

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Speaker 1: she's doing life six feet under Ground. In my new podcast,

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Speaker 1: What Happened to Sandy Beale, I follow the clue Sandy

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Speaker 1: left behind, and I discover a secretive world that Sandy

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Speaker 1: was trying to join, a world not so friendly to women.

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Speaker 1: She had a lot going for her. I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: in one year things going that tragically wrong. Listen to

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