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crime [Music] foreign [Music] November 12 1969 year old Gloria kowalowitz left her
parents house before 8 AM to head to Saint Mary of Mount Carmel Church for the 8 A.M Mass the church was located at
6722 South Hermitage Avenue on the southwest side of the great City of Chicago the walk wasn't far just three
or four blocks from her home located at 2002 West 67th Place and Gloria was accustomed to making this walk it was a
different era back then obviously young children were much Freer to go to and from places like School Church Parks
without parents it doesn't appear that Gloria's parents gave her walking alone a second thought
but they did give it a second thought when she didn't come home in fact she never made it to church that
day said a school friend who waited for her at the church entrance her parents reported her missing on Saturday
afternoon and I apologize to you captain and all the wonderful listeners out there we do not have a clear time of
when she was reported Miss slacker but they would not have to wait too long before A call came in from the police
the dreaded call the call that nobody wanted at 11 40 on that Saturday morning a laundry truck driver was taking an
early lunch break from his route and was seated at a roadside table next to the Palos Hills forest preserve after
parking on the shoulder glancing Into the Woods this man's name is Harry linman he was startled to see
something in the underbrush of a ravine closer examination made him draw back in
horror it was a dead child that he saw her face and head were bloody and disfigured to the point that until
autopsy police suspected that she had been beaten to death her pink and brown checkered dress was pulled up exposing
her underwear and her shoes and socks were missing her blue leotards lay on the ground near her body her father
Edward was called to the scene to see whether the corpse was in fact his little girl and unfortunately it was he
told police that the little girl's blue coat purse rosary and a prayer book were
all missing from the scene but they weren't missing for very long either these items were found along various
roadways heading back back toward the city of Chicago yeah it seems like the killer was dumping the evidence as they
drove back into the city you are exactly right police believe that the killer had
tossed them out of the window of his vehicle on his way back to the city he took the girl from the city drove out of
town she's killed and then he is disposing of her items as he is driving back to town
and to back that up we have this from the Chicago Tribune that says glorious purse containing her white gloves two
prayer books and a Rosary were found a block west of the Southwest Highway along Highway 83 along with one of her
shoes the other shoe was found at Highway 83 and 69th Avenue her blue coat was found on Highway 83 at
Ridgeland Avenue about five miles east of where the body was found it's like this guy didn't really care about
leaving a potential road map to where he was going and was almost maybe even bragging about
what he had done yeah or it's a ruse I'm gonna dump these items like I'm going back into the City and then he turns and
goes to another suburb but what was the cause of Gloria's death the autopsy it was found that Gloria had been shot
twice in the head at close range they know that it was close range because she had powder burns on her face
one bullet entered the top of her head and the other the left temple it was believed that the first shot was
inflicted while she was standing and that the second shot the shot to her Temple was done after she was on the
ground so we have these gunshot wounds to her face they thought she was initially beaten
but then the autopsy is going to say well gunshot wounds so was she even beaten at all or is this just damage
from the gunshot wounds it's difficult to sit here and say with any level of certainty right other than using their
words and their words were up until the autopsy we had thought that she had been beaten to death now how is
this similar to Nancy's case how is it not similar so we have a situation where a person is taken off of the side of the
road and then a short time later found having been driven several miles away and then shot to death
so the the victimology is similar and the crime itself is similar do we have signs in either case of sexual assault
in Nancy's case absolutely now the in glorious case it's a little more difficult so reporting at the time of
Gloria's case was that a pathologist who conducted an autopsy said that they saw
no signs of sexual assault on this little victim's body and this is again from the Tribune coroner Walter McCarron
said Dr Harold Wagner his chief pathologist found that microscopic tests indicated that the girl had not been
sexually molested this has never been refuted if the authorities have any evidence of
sexual assault of of Gloria they have kept it under wraps for 62 years I have a difficult time believing that
that she wasn't sexually assaulted right in some form or manner I do think that we should talk about the location where
Gloria was found this Palace Park area the Tribune says the body was lying 20 feet where some articles say 100 feet
which seems a little more likely to me but regardless 20 feet or 100 feet depending on which
article you're reading west of 104th Avenue which is also called Willow Springs road the exact spot was
approximately a mile south of Highway 83 in a ravine this is basically a large Nature
Preserve area wooded and untraveled and the location was about 15 miles from the
koalowitz house do we know any more about her timeline from my understanding Gloria's parents they owned a gas
station in the city and her parents are Edward and Esther they said that Gloria had been walking to church that morning
to receive communion with her classmates she had received her first communion on
October 29th and was instructed to take communion every day for the next two weeks that Saturday the day that she was
abducted was to be the last day of that two weeks Edwards said that he and Esther his wife had warned their young
daughter repeatedly not to take rides from strangers and never to accept anything from anyone on the street but
again she's a small child and we all know how little kids can be enticed by promises from
adults and so on or she could have simply been grabbed off of the street while she's making her way to the church
yeah or in this case we know that there's a murder weapon which is a gun so you can easily could control
especially a small child with a gun they would be scared out of their mind a funeral was later held for Gloria
unfortunately she was the koalowitz's only child the services were held at the church
that she was actually walking to when she was abducted it was attended by all 650 students
that went to the church school that Gloria attended she was in the third grade at the time
police said they were confident that Gloria was killed where she was found based on the amount of blood that they
found at the scene but the bullets that killed her they were not found with our victim
and they were not initially located at all so police employed an army mine detector
to scan the area for the bullets and they failed to find them police had resorted to sifting through the dirt by
hand now there was some very confusing reporting in the Tribune that says that police sifted the ground where her body
was found in Unearthed two 22 caliber shell casings right the captain of police went on to say that both had a
little rust on them and one was chipped but the 22 caliber shell casings isn't really matching up with what their
suspicions were because they believed that the bullets that killed Gloria came from either a 32 or a 38 caliber weapon
so these bullets the shell casings may just have been found there it just maybe happenstance that they were found in the
same area so police spent the next few days combing the scene for any evidence including the missing bullets they
finally found one of the bullets on Thursday this is nearly five days after the murder it was a 38 caliber and it
was found dug into the ground two feet from where her body lay the nose of the bullet was smushed but the rifling was
intact meaning it could possibly be linked to a weapon if they were to find a weapon to test it
against test showed it was almost certainly one of the projectiles that passed right through Gloria's head
for some reason they spent and expended a lot of time and effort searching that immediate area
for the gun presumably they hope that if they could locate it its registration would lead
them back to the killer or it's one more tool to lead them to the killer yeah or
fingerprints they had 400 Boy Scouts that were brought into comb a two mile a two square mile area dive teams even
went into a nearby lake looking to see if anybody had dumped the gun there police said they thought that the
offender might have discarded it but that's just a suspicion because they search this Lake they search this two
square mile area they never located a gun they did find a tire track at the murder
scene yeah which we did not find in Nancy's case right the head of the Chicago police crime lab told the media
we found a tire track at the murder scene presumably Captain I'm guessing that they must have ruled out that the
tire track that they're talking about was not made by the person who found her body Harry lindman remember he had his
laundry truck out there with him that day they found a wallet on the ground and this was considered to be a very big
and important lead right we love it when a killer is dumb enough or makes the mistake of leaving an ID a photo ID or
or any form of identification right there at the murder scene right this wallet that they found belonged to a
teenage boy this is a 16 year old teenage boy so they tracked this individual down
and he said that yes that's my wallet but I lost it the summer before so I've lost that I lost that wallet
months ago his parents his friends and many people back up this story so he eventually ends up being crossed off of
the list yeah but I wonder what his life was like in the community for the next month of people not buying that story on
Gloria's purse remember that was recovered from a road they found a fingerprint on the strap that was not
glorious a later article in the Tribune said that they had actually had a palm print taken from Gloria's white plastic
handbag so it's it's a little confusing if we're talking about a fingerprint or a palm print going forward I have I have
the suspicion that they actually found both that they may have found a fingerprint and a palm print that both
did not belong to Gloria on this purse right either way it's a good piece of evidence there police spoke to all of
the people that would be out working right out driving about that Saturday morning so this is people like bus
drivers delivery men and others who regularly drove the route Gloria would have taken walking from her home to the
church to which she never arrived then they did a door-to-door canvas of Gloria's neighbors and people who lived
along that route that she would have taken to get to the church that morning and this
is where they're hoping to develop a more comprehensive timeline right they believed that she had been abducted
really just a few minutes after setting out from her home just before 7 45 A.M we know that she never reached the
church and this is based off of our witness her friend that was waiting for and the statements of the investigators
at the time well and there's probably other patrons of the church that didn't see her there that day so the
investigators thought that Gloria was likely picked up as she walked along Marquette road but later reporting said
that she could have been grabbed as she walked along 67th Street either way this gave a very narrow
window of time for the actual abduction as the walk even at a child's Pace was less than 10 minutes what's scary about
both these cases in in my mind's eye is is how visual they become in your imagination you can see you can almost
see these cars following these girls along whatever path they're going Nancy heading home with her sister Cheryl and
seeing Gloria waking up heading to church so she can take communion and then being followed by a vehicle you can
almost see how that would play out or even like you said is there some ruse that they used or like get the get the
girl close to the car and we'll abduct her with it with a gun now in Nancy's case it's different because we have
eyewitness this person jumps out of the car and snatches the individual this could be
the same thing that happened in glorious case now in Nancy's case like we said we
had we have her sister Cheryl that was with her so that was a solid eyewitness but again she's only five years old in
glorious case do we have any eyewitnesses we end up with several potential eyewitnesses and again this
walk is less than a 10 minute long walk so to have several eyewitnesses is very lucky and helpful in this investigation
so first we have a gentleman who owned a grocery store on Damon Avenue this is located behind the koalowitz's home he
says that he saw Gloria leave the house on that Saturday morning waving goodbye to her mother as she left so
we don't need to be looking in the direction of the parents as far as this eyewitness statement goes because she
was alive and well when she left her parents home that morning then we have the statement of the
parents Esther her mother said that she watched her daughter walk North on Damon
Avenue and watched Gloria turn East on 67th Street so that's a portion of her travels then
we have a a man who's a plumber who told police that he saw Gloria standing at the corner about a half of a block from
her home at approximately 7 45 a.m this was on the corner of Marquette Road and Winchester Avenue
he was stopped at a light he's driving and he noticed her because she was hopping from foot to foot he said it
appeared she was waiting for someone that's a really weird part of this story where you have a
witness who does not know the victim and he is of the belief that the girl was possibly there waiting for somebody
now what's interesting to me Captain is he says that he notices her because she's hopping you know hopping around
from foot to foot but he's there because he stopped at a light on the corner of these roads
well why I'm wondering if she had the opportunity to walk across the street but did not
and that gave him the indication maybe she was waiting there for something or someone another witness who was
described as a 45 year old maintenance man his name is Carl Bartell told police that he saw a girl who he thought could
have been Gloria and what's strange about this Captain is he says that he saw this girl that he thought might be
Gloria riding in a car with a man on Saturday morning this would have been around 8 40 a.m he said that the two
were driving on 131st Street at 104th Avenue about two miles from where Gloria was eventually
found they turned North on 104th the child was with a man aged 25 to 40 with black hair this is as described by
our witness the car was a 1954 or 1955 Plymouth four-door sedan olive green I don't want to jump back and forth
between the two cases too much because it will get a little convoluted along the way
but remember in Nancy's case it was described as a four-door sedan a four-door vehicle dark colored and a
lot of the reports say black there are some reports that say possibly a dark green in Gloria's case we have this
witness who's saying look if this was Gloria that I saw in the vehicle with this man with black
hair age 25 to 40 they were traveling in what I believe was a 1954 or 1955 Plymouth four-door sedan olive green
police took Bartell to the crime lab to view Gloria's clothing to confirm the sighting if you do a little map
detective work here and look up about the time that it would take to drive from Gloria's house to the intersection
where this man says that he saw Gloria and the dark-haired man it takes about 34 minutes to drive that 14 or so miles
so this timing could be fairly accurate backing up his statement that he believes that he saw Gloria in this car
so if she were picked up at approximately 7 50 a.m they could be on 131st and 104th at 8 40. as reported by
this witness now of course give or take 15 minutes which could mean all of the world entirely another helpful tip came
from a Mrs Stephen Griffin no relation to Peter who saw the blue coat lying on Highway 83 west of Ridgeland Avenue at
approximately 9 15 a.m so the timing of the blue coat having been discarded in the roadway meant it was possible Gloria
had been killed within an hour of the abduction we also do need to point out though just because we painted the
picture earlier of the Killer killing Gloria leaving her where her body was found and then driving back to Chicago
or heading back the direction he came and discarding her her items along the way there's always the possibility that
this coat was tossed out the window while Gloria was still alive fortunate in this case there was another tip that
was called in this was an anonymous tip however and this was simply a woman that
called police identifying herself only as a neighbor of the koalowitzes per the Chicago Tribune they say quote
she said the murderer was driving an automobile Whose license is issued to a resident of Alton in Madison County end
quote so it's unclear how this witness this Anonymous witness would know this right or if she even knew it at all it
could have been a complete hoax but then you have to wonder if she did in fact know it did she see the car
did she have knowledge of this crime or or knowledge of the suspect did it if she did see the car did it
have some kind of sticker or some other Mark that designated it as being from Alton
was she referring to the license plate that she saw on the vehicle all of this stuff is is unknown and really
unfortunate because this tip comes in we get this information it seems very very
loosey-goosey and we never hear anything of this tip again foreign [Music] [Music]
take me [Music] all right we are back mates cheers he's back I'm back cheers to the people in
the back tall cans in the air now here's a part of our investigation that comes up every
time we run one of these investigations especially when we're talking about the abduction and murder of a youngster and
this is the part of the investigation Captain when the Chicago Police did the old pervert Roundup
and they rounded up all of The Usual Suspects and the pp's out and they demanded Alibis from anyone in the
neighborhood where Gloria lived who had a history of any kind of sexual or sex charges against them sex crimes a 19
year old girl reported being followed home by a blonde youth wearing jeans and a tan jacket right around the same time
that Gloria was taken so right about that same time there this was on Marquette Road between Damon and
Winchester Avenues we've named all three of those roads before so this is same area yeah yes this could be significant
the young man followed the teen as she got off of the bus and walked home and then stood outside of her home until her
mother shouted at this man or this youngster to leave he was last seen walking down 67th Street police were
interested in tracking him down and told the public about this but it's not clear
as we sit here all these years later looking back whether they ever did in fact track him down and then the other
thing too is if we're going to cross-reference this with the other statements by potential eyewitnesses who
say that they saw Gloria in the car with a dark-haired man between 25 and 40 well another man by
that's described as a blonde youth might not be our same guy right both can't be true
but regardless these are witnesses these are people in the area trying to help out trying to help the investigation
within two days of Gloria's murder detectives said that they believed that Gloria had been killed by the same quote
sex maniac who had struck in the city recently so remember this is early November they
state that since October 17th there had been four assaults on women and girls in that area do we
have any eyewitnesses of those assaults well what we have in this situation is we have the people that were
going to be assaulted are our eyewitnesses and what what happens here though without going into the details of
each one of these attacks is I would categorize these more as attempted assaults because it looks like whoever
was doing this was scared off before he got to do whatever it is that he set out
to do so that makes it very difficult when you have these air quotes unsuccessful attacks compared to
Gloria's case where it's an abduction and a murder it gets very hard to sit here and go well is the mo even the same
right because it sounds completely different but in the attempted assaults we do not know what the end result would
have been had the attacker been successful or not scared off right by the 15th of November police said that
they had no solid leads in the case which was about to change very quickly but up to this point it doesn't appear
to me Captain that this was for a lack of trying they really worked this case the best that they could in the early
stages they reportedly had 50 5-0 detectives from Chicago who worked with Cook County Sheriff's investigators on
the case they claimed to have spoken to about 800 people in the days since Gloria was found
they were still working the leads that they had the fingerprint on the purse strap is one of the potential leads
they're also working the tire track that was found near the body and the possible
sighting of the girl in the company of a man driving down the street Chicago detectives were also in touch with
authorities in Paulding Ohio as we had mentioned at the end of yesterday's show this is to speak with authorities there
as to whether there could be any connection between Gloria's murder case and that of Nancy
eagleson now note that this is about 230 miles away but the cases bore startling
parallels and again both cases we have a child being abducted into a vehicle not
a man on foot so 200 and some miles is is far but not that far yes and we have the chief of detectives James McMahon in
Chicago who openly asked the question to reporters when he's telling them hey we're in contact with some people in
Ohio about a case that they have he said have we got a killer traveling cross-country
so the chief of detectives McMahon he goes on to say that he was checking and had been in contact with Sheriff John
Keeler at the Paulding Sheriff's Department via telephone they were both talking about the two slangs that
happened recently in their areas both noted the likenesses of the two atrocities the similarities in both
cases according to the chief of detectives McMahon he stated to the papers the abduction
Gloria apparently was seized by a man as she walked to church on that Saturday Nancy was grabbed by a man in an
automobile as she and her sister walked home from a movie on Sunday the death scene he said was similar Gloria's body
was found in a wooded area a forest preserved southwest of Chicago lying in a ravine about 100 feet from the road
Nancy's body was found in a desolate wooded area about 100 feet from a country road the cause of death Gloria
was shot in the head twice with a weapon believed to be either a 32 or 38 caliber
gun Nancy also was shot in the head but the caliber of the weapon at that time and
really a little bit still to this day is a little bit in question and at the time of this reporting they state that
the caliber of the weapon used in Nancy's homicide wasn't known yes but the cause of death to me would be more
important than if the calibers matched because you could be dealing with somebody that commits a crime and then
gets rid of anything that they use to commit that crime and then they commit another crime and
they could then get rid of that murder weapon as well well this is really a shocker here
because the Chicago Police kind of pretty quickly felt like they may have their man
and they also thought that maybe this guy was good for Nancy eagleson's murder 230 miles away
this suspect drops into their laps essentially when a car was reported stolen in Chicago on that Saturday night
that stupid son of a [ __ ] the car was located on Sunday in Laporte Indiana now you don't have to be a geographical
wizard to know that the great state of Indiana is right in the middle of Ohio and Illinois
so they find the stolen vehicle from Chicago in Indiana not only do they find the stolen vehicle but inside
we got a guy yay we got a suspect sleeping sleeping inside is 17 year old Robert Lee Stovall and
he happens to be wearing bloody clothing which of course immediately raised suspicions I like that they tell us that
in the newspaper it immediately raised suspicions when did it did Bloody clothing not raise suspicions
he told the police that the blood was the result of a bar fight this guy isn't it idiot so he's described in the paper
as a Detroit native Detroit Michigan native if you look at the guy he's got a mustache goatee and sideburns he lied to
the police about where he got the car right the car was reported stolen he's telling police
I borrowed the car from my sister's boyfriend liar remember they always have a story whenever you're caught in a
stolen car you better have a story so he lied to the police about this you can quickly check and and confirm that
it does not belong to anybody that he knows in fact I'm not certain who the car belonged to and his story about his
whereabouts on Saturday night and really that Sunday did not check out so investigators intended to check his
shoes to see whether dirt on them matched the soil and the Ravine where Gloria was found now keep in mind we're
looking at this angle right here of this Robert Lee stovel individual we're looking at all the information about him
based off of what the authorities in Chicago are telling the newspapers in our reporting at the time well he is
going to be questioned by law enforcement in the Nancy eagleson case as well yeah Paulding Ohio investigators
in fact it was Sheriff John Keeler who questioned this individual about Nancy's case this known liar what is weird here
though to me is this this is the guy that kind of ties these two cases together right you have these
two crimes that they're rare crimes potential stranger abduction both of them are children and abduction and a
murder similar age similar day yep both victims are found rather quickly the only thing that really separates
them is that 230 miles well you get over that hurdle real quickly when you find this guy in Indiana with a stolen car
covered in blood now and also where he's from because if you take where he's from and you go
through Ohio and then on to Chicago that path makes sense well what's weird here
about this guy is as good of a suspect as he may look as interesting as he may appear to be to
investigators right away it seems like both law enforcement agencies at some point must have had been pretty clear
that there was nothing that they could tie to him or nothing tying him to either of the actual murders so where he
is once and very briefly at that the prime suspect I mean his picture is in the papers his name is in the papers as
being questioned in both of these homicides the prime suspect in both murders however however briefly he was
actually considered to be a suspect he seems to have been dropped by both agencies and dropped out of the
spotlight very quickly again very strange because he's covered in blood I'd be testing that blood before I drop
him from my suspect list right and that's what I mean is weird here that we get his picture in the paper we get his
name in the paper as being interviewed in question in both cases and then they move on from him in both cases but we're
never really told why they moved on from him and I'm assuming we can see all the work that they were
doing in Paulding we can see all the work that they were doing in Chicago on these these two cases
and I don't like to assume but you have to believe that they had something that moved them off of this guy or something
that told them that he was not their guy in fact you have the statement very quickly from
the chief of detectives in Chicago that says despite the similarities the chief of detectives said there
wasn't enough evidence presently to Warrant sending a Chicago detective to Ohio but McMahon the chief of detectives
emphasized that if Keeler John Keeler the John Keeler the sheriff in Ohio if he ever had a suspect in Nancy's case then
the Chicago Police Department will waste no time in sending a man to Paulding to
assist in the question yeah this is very strange and very confusing and maybe this is why these
cases are not solved 60 years later and this is one of those really truly unsatisfying parts of any story of any
True Crime Story that remains a mystery to this day here we sit 62 years later Nancy and Gloria are killed abducted and
killed on the same weekend in 1960 230 miles apart from one another there was enough similarities in this
case that the investigators thought that there was a chance that they could be connected that maybe this Maniac this
man that they find covered in blood in a stolen car from Chicago kills the little girl
makes his way through Ohio after abducting and killing Nancy and then returns only to be caught with
the stolen vehicle covered in blood in Indiana and yet we sit here these years later
we're not being told that this Robert Lee Stovall who was described as a habitual liar right he was described as
a psychopathic liar at one point in the newspapers which that term and that word
means a lot different today than what it did in 1960. it's just really frustrating it seems that he had some
kind of mental issues that he may have been in and out of Institutions at portions in
his life so we do not know what went down behind the scenes when these investigators are talking to this guy
because I I want to be clear on this when he's picked up the way that the the way that the Chicago Police
and the way that it's described in the papers at the time and maybe this is just the media taking a little bit of
Liberties here with the story but it's described as oh snap we had this murder in Chicago this one of the
most horrific murders we can think of in recent memory we have this Abduction of
murder that takes place in Paulding Ohio a place that does not see this type of crime this kind of violence
and we found this man covered in blood he's our guy he is the guy he's traveling driving around like a maniac
looking for the next victim and we got him right that's the way that it's described yeah you just
these types of crimes that this this person is obviously they weren't afraid of being seen by the younger eyewitness
this person probably is a psychopath these are crimes of a psychopath correct but then therein lies the problem you
sit here all these years later and you go maybe this guy Robert Lee Stovall was the only thing that was really binding
these two cases together tying them connecting them together and once he is removed from the
situation once they believe or once they move on from this guy because I don't want to
say that he's cleared they never officially say that he's cleared but they looked at this guy long and hard in
Chicago they thought this was the guy and they moved on from him so there was something
telling him that he is not responsible for Gloria's murder there was not enough on this guy for them to remain
interested in him for Nancy eagleson's murder I really want to know about them testing that blood evidence
because obviously they don't have DNA back then but they could have tested it to see if it was the same type of blood
in the Glorious case and that's why I mean that it's unsatisfying you have this guy that they moved on from and yet
we do not know why we have we sit here and have no clue as to why they moved on from Robert Lee Stovall now I will tell
you this tell me some keep in mind Cheryl who was with her older sister Nancy the night that Nancy was abducted
right she had never heard of Robert Lee Stovall she did not know that another little
girl was killed that same weekend two states over and because his picture was readily
available because he was in the paper so much at the time I showed Robert Lee stovall's picture
to Cheryl and she said I've never seen that man before [Music] love [Music] and a quick note before we wrap up this
week's set of shows we are doing a part three and part four on the Nancy eagleson murder investigation and that
is because our involvement with the porch-like project has made it so that we are privy to certain information that
has not hit the newspapers in this case and so we really took a deep dive looking at the Nancy eagleson
investigation which has gone on now for 62 years so with so much information we were just not able to cram it all into
two episodes well that's what we like to do here in the garage is let the information dictate whether it's going
to be a one part or two part or three-parter or a heck even sometimes we'll do a six-parter like with the
JonBenet Ramsey case so we get to take a deep dive into this one and make it a four-parter in Parts three and four we
will continue to look at the Nancy eagleson investigation and we will also take a look at another similar crime as
well as the suspects yeah the old turd burglars and you won't want to miss when we get to the suspects because I think
you're going to find them to be very interesting thank you for joining us here in the garage thanks for letting us
whisper in your ears for the last few hours you are our friends our buddies are Pals and we appreciate you Colonel
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On Sunday, November 13, 1960 - Nancy Eagleson was abducted while walking home. She was just a few houses away from her own when a man wearing glasses and driving a dark car pulled up alongside of her and asked if she would like a ride. Just seconds later the car was gone and so was Nancy. The Sheriff was looking for a suspect. There was a manhunt in northwest Ohio and they found their first suspect in Indiana. But unfortunately there was another victim. Today we continue to examine Nancy’s case and explore the unsolved murder of Gloria Kowalewicz.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the 1969 murder of Gloria Kowalowitz and its investigation, linking it to Nancy Eagleson's case.

Key points

The Disappearance of Gloria Kowalowitz. On November 12, 1969, Gloria left for church but never arrived. Her parents reported her missing, leading to a tragic discovery.
A Horrific Discovery. A laundry truck driver finds Gloria's body in the woods, leading to a police investigation.
Autopsy Revelations. The autopsy reveals shocking details about Gloria's death, including gunshot wounds.
Missing Evidence. Police struggle to find the murder weapon and other crucial evidence in the case.
The Anonymous Witness. A witness claims to have seen the murderer’s vehicle, but their credibility is questioned.
The Old Pervert Roundup. Police round up local sex offenders for questioning after Gloria's abduction.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

The dreaded call that nobody wanted.

Police receive a call about a missing child

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Tension

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