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around grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] It is believed that September 2nd Friday
1977 just after work is the last sighting of Simone ridinger she was 17 years old and she's been missing ever
since she worked her shift that day at the rainbow restaurant in natic Massachusetts she was supposed to be
heading out to chapaqua to a cottage that her family owned to join them for the long weekend if not longer for many
years the rainbow restaurant was believed to be the last place that anyone reported seeing
Simone but in 1986 a wit came forward who said that no he gave Simone a ride and he had a very different story
to tell now this man doesn't just walk into the police station and give this information willy-nilly now what
happened was we talked about yesterday how the Sherborn Police Department over the years continued to go to the media
to channel the public to get information in Simone's case so what takes place here in 1986 Captain
is that they had just did a story in the newspaper that came out the day before so this man walks into the police
department and says I have some information for you right that I actually gave this young woman a
ride and what prompted him to come into the police department was he's saying look I I didn't I was unaware that this
was a case that this was something that was of importance until I read the newspaper article
yesterday in my paper and so I am here to give you some information now what's really
interesting about this okay so this is a there there's some weird things here yeah let's get into it let's get weird
yeah we're going to get very weird because what happens here is this this is like a tight rope moment I believe in
this case so you got to walk this fine line and there are things that could tip you to the side of disbelieving
everything this man says or tip you to the other side where you fall and then believe that this is true that this
really took place and this is good information in the case so the short version of it is this witness was an
elderly man who unfortunately like several other persons that we've discussed in this case is now deceased
so we can't go back and interview him again but in 1986 he's saying that he was in he came into the police
department saying that he was in route in 1977 he's in route to go out to the cape he says that he's pulled over near
or at a rest area right this is on Route 128 in Route 109 in Westwood Massachusetts he believes that he's
pulled over by a state trooper and the state trooper during the interaction with this elderly
man says hey I got this girl that's going out to Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod according to the man this girl was
in the backseat of the trooper's car and he says look could you give her a ride the rest of the way to which this older
gentleman says sure no problem so he says that he this girl gets in his car they they talk quite a bit while they're
traveling together lot of chitchat they they figure out that they're roughly from about the same area they don't know
each other prior to this ride but this witness says that he drops Simone the person he believes to be Simone riding
her that he drops her off at hyanis near the airport saying that he last saw her
walking towards a nearby restaurant uh there were two restaurants in that area at the time one a Howard Johnson's
and two a ground round both tasty treats the problem here though is Captain this witness's account has not been
confirmed I got a couple questions though right he's coming forward nine years later it's a long time and so he
would have been 79 at the time that he came to the police department and he would have been
70 at the time that he gave this young person a ride if in fact he did right so many questions one did law enforcement
pick up hitchhikers like I don't I didn't know if that's a thing I mean I know sometimes I've known local police
officers that have like seen somebody that like walks to work at the at the local Wendy's and they might go hey I'm
heading that way you want me to give you a ride but for for a State Trooper just to
pick pick up a hitchhiker she's young and she's attractive so I guess there's a possibility so that's confusing but it's
also confusing to me why would the trooper put this 17-year-old basically into the care into
the custody of this elderly man that he's pulling over it just it doesn't make a lot of sense no it it doesn't
makes sense the the thing here is I know I gave out a couple different uh routes
and whatnot but but primarily this would be 95 that this man would have been traveling on and what's interesting
though is again he would have lived only a handful of miles away from where Simone ridinger lived so it's not out of
the question that he would be traveling in the same direction because we know he's going to roughly the same general
location that she intends to go to however they're they're not going close enough
to one another that that that she would ride with him for the entirety she needs
to get off at some point and go her own way so that makes some sense in what is his purpose for his travels apparently
he's a has a hobby of working and and restoring clocks yeah and so he was traveling out there to pick up some
parts some clock parts and said say that you know this I got pulled over and then I wasn't
looking to pick up a hitchhiker but the officer asked me if I would drive this girl closer to where I was headed and I
said sure no problem now back to what you're talking about here Captain it's I think it's actually very common not for
an officer to hand a civilian over to another civilian but I would think that it's rather common that if a police
officer especially a state Trooper somebody that's primarily working the freeways and the highways in most
jurisdictions in Most states it's illegal for pedestrians to be walking near the freeways in the highways right
and so those persons are going to get picked up they're likely not going to get charged with anything depending on
how nice or not nice your officer is you might get a ticket but I would believe that if she let's pretend that she did
hit hike and made her way somewhat to her destination right at some point maybe it's it's fair to make the
assumption that maybe she traveled a distance and got dropped off by another ride that she
hitched and maybe an officer spotted her walking and says n this can't happen I got to get her off of the the freeway
here travel some distance gets to talking to this old man and says oh you know she's not done anything wrong maybe
this old guy didn't really do anything anything wrong hey you're both going the same way he's an old dude maybe he seems
well enough and good enough maybe I'll I'll hand her off the problem becomes Sherborn police cannot find any record
of an officer picking up Simone ridinger or picking up a pedestrian cannot find any report of the traffic stop because
that's the part of his story that what happened to that traffic stop he says he was pulled over he's not
pulled over to give this girl a ride the officer wouldn't know where this guy's going no he's pulled over for some kind
of violation now is it hey you know your your tail lights out but hey if you do me a solid and take this girl down the
road a little bit for me uh we can just forget about it so I want to know what happened to that traffic
violation the other thing but here's the thing like as unb believable as this story
seems he gives a description of the person that he tells police now he I don't believe at any time does he ever
say she told me her name was Simone she told me her name was Simone writing her right I don't think that that's what
happened when he reports this but the thing that you can that makes it so you cannot completely dismiss this as a
possibility is the description of the clothes so he gives the descrip deson of the clothes saying that she was wearing
blue jeans with ripson patches a white T-shirt sneakers and she was carrying a gray duffel bag well what's interesting
about him giving this description in 1986 the police don't have this description yet forget about the media
or the public that clothing descriptions not been released to anybody and never was released once they
get this information from the old man they don't release this description until after talking to those two
waitresses years later yeah and when new detectives come on this case obviously they'd love to talk to this individual
because he's the last known person to see her alive so he becomes a suspect in a way but I don't think this guy had any
criminal history I don't think I mean again a a very simple hobby of he like to work and fix
clocks but he's not alive but there able to talk to his son and I don't know and
this is kind of a heads or tails type thing the detective finds it a little suspicious that the the father never
told the son about this and that is one thing when when I spoke with some of the
officers that have worked this case over the years one a piece of the puzzle that
I was unaware of then and still unaware of to this date and so as you said a bit
of a head scratcher I want to know the details of choosing those words in that statement okay what what exactly does
that mean does does that mean that father never tells son oh I picked up this girl and and gave her a ride that
got pulled over by the police and you'll never they asked me to give this girl a
ride and I dropped her off okay I can get that maybe dad doesn't tell son that right fast forward to 1986
how in the hell does somebody not tell and maybe maybe they're not close I don't know but I would think that if I
read a newspaper article on a Tuesday let's say and Wednesday morning I'm in at the police
station giving a report of something that happened to me nine years prior I think that's something I'm telling
people well because it's such a abnormal activity yes it's not like oh well you know I went to to the dentist the other
day it's like or hey I had to go pick up lumber at the lumber yard or I whatever
this is a I was reading a newspaper report and they started talking about this missing girl that I believe I gave
a ride to I believe I might be the last person that saw her alive yes so she's been missing for almost 10 years yeah
you show up for a cup of coffee or church on Sunday bump into an old friend or you're hanging hang out with your son
now keep in mind he's 79 years old roughly yeah in 1986 so his son's a grown man but yeah
you when there's no way that you're going hey what you been up to lately oh you don't go same old same old after
you've had that experience you go no I read a newspaper article of a missing person who they believe has been likely
murdered I fig figured out that day that I might have been a witness to something
or have important information in this case from N9 years ago and I was sitting at the police station telling them
everything I knew the following day yeah and I think we both agree it makes more sense for him to
tell his son but we don't know their relationship we don't even know the frequency in which they talk to each
other I have some friends that think it's crazy that I talk to my father once a week and and a lot of some of my
friends that live in a different state than their parents they're like well I don't speak to my parents but every 3
months so I could see well it's time to call the parents and uh and this conversation doesn't come
up you know so it's uh because it and what I mean by that is if if he read that news report went into the police
department the next time he talked to his son was 3 months later well maybe it's not something you bring up so here
here's some things that I wanted to figure out because this situation throws a big fat monkey wrench
into the whole investigation so if this guy yeah it either means one of two things in my opinion this story either
makes him possibly the last well as the story is today he would then become the last
identifiable witness to Simone being alive and well or he's in the other category the
suspect category my problem with the story is one the details of what she was wearing and the duffel bag which was
never released so that points to the direction of go okay well this story's true but my
big problem is because this story is out and then the story of Simone has already
been out for a while why wouldn't this Trooper come forward and go yeah I actually picked her up I
didn't know her name was Simone or I didn't remember her name was Simone and I had her take a ride with this elderly
man yeah I'm I'm with you on that and I think part of the again I think that goes back to the early complications of
the case she not officially reported missing until 9 days later did did did that Trooper did that story not reach
him did did he never see a be on the lookout for this missing person well that's the one of the things that I
think is the biggest problem like you said there's four locations that we have to look into
in this case but the biggest thing this makes location number five potentially right right right five or six because
you have the the Rest Stop Plus where he dropped her off at is a different location that's not where she' get the
ferry at right it from my understanding it's not terribly far and that that inlies a whole another set of questions
that we haven't even got to yet I I think the big thing though is from her work to Cape Cod that 70 miles that's
the problem because we know like in our town in our city Columbus Ohio you bring up Tyler
Davis most people know who you're talking about missing person from Easton you bring up Brian Schaefer all the
medical student that missing from Ohio State campus you go about an hour away they've never heard of the case so I
think that 70 mile distance between the restaurant and Cape Cod that becomes a huge issue on why this case isn't
solved well well so here's some other problems right this the reports of of the clothing I mean he couldn't have made
that up I yeah you know what I mean doesn't mean that it's Simone but the he couldn't have read the
prior newspaper reports and gave this description be because you know this is not information that was publicly public
knowledge at the time in fact he's the first one reporting that she's wearing something different and you have to
wonder keep in mind they've still not interviewed any of the waitresses at this time this information after
speaking to him does not go out to the public either so when you interview these waitresses years and years later
and they're giving a different description of clothing than what was always reported and now it matches what
this old dude told you in 1986 yeah that one really causes some alarm bells to go
off but two he wouldn't have got this information from anywhere else now look Sherborn
police they've done their due diligence on this they went to the state police to
the state troopers and they tried to track down any reports that would lead them to they're trying to verify this
story is this story truth or a lie because if he's if he's lying then why is he lying right is he just some seni
old man some people do like to get involved in a case is he some weirdo that just wants to be in a case or is he
injecting himself into the investigation because he has some kind of involvement
in this disappearance just to put out some information that people might be wondering her social security has never
been used and then there's been no activity on her bank account no deposit no withdrawal no check writing
yeah that all stopped her social security number being used or the the bank account activity all stops
1977 so not been used since then but the the other curious parts of his story he tells police
that he picked when he picked the girl up that he believed is Simone riding her he picks her up
September 3rd about 6 or 6:30 in the morning well we've we have all these reps now that she had left work by 400
p.m. right we now have 14 hours unaccounted for what again I I am having a hard time
figuring out the discrepancies between Friday evening and Saturday morning or arriving on
Saturday uh the son did confirm that his father was into CL and did a lot of work
on clocks so that part of the story seems to be true Sherborn police did their due diligence and even went beyond
the scope of just the state troopers and thought well maybe it was a smaller agency a more local agency to that area
and they checked and tried to find reports nothing that they could find that back up the story from 1977 doesn't
mean that it wouldn't have happened doesn't mean that the state trooper didn't fill out a report doesn't mean
that the state trooper ever had any awareness that person that looked like this went missing yeah and just this
statement real quick you know I was watching True Detective again season one great show and they were talking about
what type of detective you know Russ is and what type of detective he is and I would think if I if I was a detective
I'd probably be old school yellow legal pads but nowadays you have to take that those notes and then put them into the
system and inste 77 we didn't have a system like that so how much information how many leads have been lost throughout
the years of detectives that looked into this case and kept their own notes and never put them into the system also just
like this nowadays when cops are making traffic stops or Troopers are making traffic stops they're putting all this
into a computer system right away I mean even once they're able to say at this time
this officer looked up this person's license plate number we don't have that information and that's another
frustrating thing about this case I'm hoping that they were able to check like other Labor Day
weekend years maybe the year before the year after could this old guy just have picked somebody else up and he is
telling the truth but it wasn't Simone uh the thing that's interesting to me though and scary okay so there's
again it's it's the tight rope the thing that's interesting to me that I think is
fair I believe that probably a 70-year-old man would would take would recognize the ripped up and
patched up jeans as maybe something unique especially if he's somebody that's not
giving rides to persons often or maybe even ever maybe this is the only time he's ever done that the other thing
that's scary to me is if he's not an ie an eyewitness and he falls into the other
category is the the recall of what she was wearing nine years later right I was here in the garage studio
with you seven days ago for hours yesterday for hour hours I could not tell you what you were
wearing last week nothing when I saw you I was wearing nothing well that would have stood out quite a bit the the G the
the person's name is Henry C and I'll spell his last name t i e WS so he like we said he has since
passed away and well here's here's a thing and not to interrupt you but we have these descriptions and the
problem is they're loose descriptions of this jewelry we weren't able to interview
this eyewitness quote unquote eyewitness but we're able to talk to his son it'd be interesting to talk to his
son and go you ever see any of these items because I could see some of the like maybe these uh the spoon bracelets
or this uh uh silver necklace with some turquoise on it I could see that being taken as a trophy well the other problem
that this air quotes witness PR presents is the suspects so police have suspicions
of what may have happened to Simone and most of that all involves something very
near where she worked and lived if this guy's story is true and it was Simone that he drove for some distance that day
and if he dropped her off as he said he did well then that takes Simone out of the area
and now those suspicions don't hold water so this that I I feel like this guy when we say throws a monkey wrench
into this investigation I think big time because you sit here and you go okay we're now tasked with some kind of
problem yes we can have our investigation and continue as we as we are but then we always have this little
nagging thing over here about this guy who may have given her a ride that takes away from all of our the other things
that we found in our investigation which are all things very close to where she lived and
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further away from from the local jurisdiction but even well beyond that we have some efforts that have been made
a good deal of efforts that have been made and you can see this based off of the namus website the national missing
and unidentified person system so go to nam.com if you want to find some people that have been either unidentified or
persons that are listed as missing so on namus what we learned from there Captain
is that we have about 30 two or so exclusions these are unidentified remains that were found in jurisdictions
far and wide some even as far away as California or Florida or Ohio where we are and says you know hey I got somebody
that vaguely fits the description of your missing person we need to do a little comparison here and they've done
comparisons and have about 32 or so exclusions in that well that's what's great is law
enforcement has Simone's DNA so they can at least test it unfortunately remains well they've been using dental records
to make these exclusions so unfortunately they don't have a full DNA profile for Simone but that I've been
told is in the works that they're working to get that full DNA profile and they hope and think that they will have
that on file here soon which that will be the most definitive way for one to make these exclusions going forward
right and so it's good though to hear that these other jurisdictions are aware and are calling and making contact with
the current investigators in Simone's case as far as suspects go well we already talked about the elderly man he
he can only fall into one of three categories identifiable witness suspect or his story is true but
it's just a misidentification on his part it wasn't Simone he picked somebody else up either on that day or even at
another date entirely but there were there and still remain some other suspects in this case
now we want to focus in on potential relation ships so there was a relationship that Simone was having
with an older man at the time of her disappearance this man has been looked at and actually was cleared very early
on in this investigation and he's cleared because well frankly it would be impossible for
him to have direct involvement in her disappearance as he was locked up at the time right
and this is interesting too because Simone would go and visit him at the corrections facility again from my
understanding The Limited information I know or been told about this relationship is that it was kind of an
on again off again relationship I don't know this individual's name I do know that he was older than Simone but one
thing that I do know for certain is that when she would go to visit him this is stuff that had to be pre-arranged you
would have to make arrangements well in advance to be granted access to see one another to have this
interaction and the reports are that she was had made arrangements to visit him on the
17th of September she's last seen at work on the 2nd of September the elderly man says he picks her up gave her a ride
on the 3rd of September we know Mom believed that she was going to arrive by the 3rd of September never did she's
reported missing on the 11th now we're all the way out to the 17th of September 1977 the
police who are now looking for Simone catch wind of this arranged appointment to go see this man at the correction
facility one they're going to want to talk to him anyway but two they really just want to find Simone and I think
everybody's working and should be working under the premise that she's probably alive and just outdoing her
thing or or maybe she ran off somewhere whatever this is still early on in the investigation they go to the correction
facility on that day on the day that the we have the appointment arranged for hoping to see Simone there they don't
see Simone there obviously they interview this guy there that's when they get the records they do all their
checking and find out that nope on the second and the third he was still where he is today in this Corrections Facility
so we have the elderly man quote unquote eyewitness that gave her a ride we have
the boyfriend but he's locked up do we have other suspects in this case we do so there is a person that is regarded as
a creepy regular at the restaurant he is somebody that police are interested in he's not going
to be the only person that they're interested in he this was a restaurant that was frequented by by a lot of the
locals there and they stayed pretty busy but there's some information from other
persons that worked there that have created an interest in this individual I don't know much about this individual
but what we do know about another individual is there is a man named Daniel Newbert Newbert and I'm going to steal
two paragraphs directly from a news article that says another question is a reference to a Daniel Newbert Newbert
sent the family Simone's family pictures of Simone around the time of her disappearance what's really interesting
about these photos for a couple for a multitude of reasons Captain but first is some of these photos were ones that
were used in many of the missing persons Flyers early on and in fact I believe that a couple of these photos are still
being used to this day maybe even in the the viap alert report that we get from the
FBI so these pictures were used on many of the missing person Flyers the article
goes on to State Police talk to Newbert who said he once gave ridinger a ride and asked if he could take photos of her
Daniel Newbert gave the negatives to the police they also investigated another man who was allegedly into the quote
drug scene end quote and trying to court Simone ridinger so there's two individuals right there that are still
of interest to investigators in this case and these both of these individuals would be local they would be townies
they would be local I don't know if the creepy restaurant Patron is one of these guys that we just
discussed you know do we have three guys of Interest or two that part to to me is
unclear now one thing that is of Interest too is a similar case that took place I believe this yes this was
1985 so Simone goes missing in 1977 the old man comes forward in 1986 after he reads a newspaper article the
day before but when that all of this is going on in the middle of all this we have this case from 1985 and this is
from channel 22 News wwlp.com working for you for 70 years is what they tell us uh thank you for
working for us at WWLP but so their article tunes of flowing Steve neelen uh wrote this article and the the title is
detective seeking closure for family of woman killed in 1985 and it reads Janine
Callahan was following her morning routine the the 24-year-old left her natic Massachusetts home to walk to work
at the now closed Zar store I don't know what a zar store but she never made it to work
that's the key here and this was November 9th 1985 and they said that a month later
her remains were found at the end of a dirt road now known as Cherry Farm quote she was naked with nothing but a pair of
gym socks on end quote she was covered with a discarded Christmas tree the medical examiner was unable to determine
the cause of death there was too much trauma to the body the investigation has been ongoing now for all of these
years they believe this investigator that's quoted a couple times in this article says that he believes that the
perpetrator would have likely lived near this Cherry Farm Road where she was eventually found uh to generate new
leads in the case the investigation uh added her to a deck of playing cards we've seen that in several States over
the years and they're just hoping to interview some people and get some more information in this case and this
detective is saying that they believe that it's still a solvable case her case has been linked we're not saying it's
absolutely connected to Simone Ringer's case the detectives aren't saying that either they're just saying simply look
the two worked so this individual Callahan Janine Callahan she lived and worked in
natic Simone worked in NAIC and lived nearby in Framingham the weird thing about their
lives is up to the time that they disappear they're both doing similar things in their Liv
so they both moved into new apartments relatively short period before they went missing again Simone
and Framingham and Janine in NAIC but not far from one another regardless if these cases are connected at all what we
need here is both of these cases to get solved so anyone with any information that can help police in Janine
Callahan's murder investigation or any other cold cases for that fact in the state is asked to
call 1877 r i Sal and so these cases are linked simply by the natic Massachusetts location well like I said
yesterday because I'm a Guinness not a genius a Guinness I think this is a really good
strategy as far as cold cases are concerned come out and say this is the information that we have this is what we
know for certain and here's the questions that we have as far as law enforcement goes because I think that
would really start sparking people's interest and also like I think with so many online sleuther when you hear these
questions I think some of these sluther would go maybe I can find that answer to this question and so one of
the questions then becomes what hasn't law enforcement done what paths could we possibly take in this
case to solve it to get some resolve yeah the thing here is these are only leads that are not
followed up on for the most part because they're not leads that that's not information that
ever made its way to law enforcement so that's why they're telling you this is what we know this is what we would like
to know in Simone's case we need some leads give give us some information that's going to give us a new lead to
follow up on and that's why I think it's so incredible and important that people
keep their earballs completely open when we say that the Sherborn Police Department is
saying they're not asking for information in her disappearance they're not asking for information in her murder
they're not simply asking for information about a potential suspect they're asking for any and all
information regarding Simone right we need to learn more about her life we need to learn more about what she was up
to and that's why I circle around this apartment idea that was the newest thing in her life at that time that's a big
moment in one's life to move out of mom and dad's house and get their own apartment and she was only there for
about two months or so prior to her disappearance what happened that night what happened September member 2nd to
September 3rd why do we have that discrepancy in this timeline of making her way out to visit
mom and chill with Mom for a long weekend at the cottage the other thing too is as the
story always goes Simone was 17 when she was last seen on September 2nd 1977 leaving from
the former rainbow restaurant in NAC Massachusetts after her shift she planned to hit chike to Cape Cod to
catch a fairy to marth's Vineyard to meet up with her parents okay what fairy there's multiple fairies that run out of
there and all of the old newspaper reports they reference Woods Hole that that would be
where she was going to go to pick up the ferry to get to her final destination which we've always been told that the
Final Destination was chapaqua and the chap atic area is where the cottage is located okay there's two fairies that
run out of Woods Hole so that's a certainly a possibility right the problem is that that is not
neither of those Fairies get her the closest to chap atic there's another ferry that runs out
of a completely different area that would get her much closer to her final destination so why isn't that location
ever referenced as where she was headed there's just a lot missing from this story there's a lot of information
that's missing from this case and that is why police are asking anyone with any information at all to get
involved if you knew that she hated gym class give him a call right if you believe that you lived in that apartment
building with her for any period of time give him a call yeah did you know about
did you work with her were you friends with her and knew that she had a crush on
somebody give them a call and as far as I'm concerned the way that this case gets
solved first off you have the obvious if we can find her remains that's going to set up a whole
different set of circumstances for this investigation there will be evidence other evidence that will come along with
that finding that will generate new leads for the investigators in this case the other thing too is I keep going back
to this apartment man I can't shake it that police seem to know damn near nothing about this apartment other than
the address is 2 29 Linden Street Framingham that's the address that I was given is there any solid paperwork or
anything that backs up that that was the actual apartment was was there was she an apartment A or B or or
101 was there an apartment number that's supposed to accompany this address the thing the reason why I keep
going back to that Captain is a couple of things cuz you're nuts a rent was due at some point uhhuh
and when rent wasn't collected who do we call we know Mom helped her find the apartment when she goes missing did
anybody ever go to the apartment and collect all of her belongings she goes missing we're we're
told time and time again she's last seen September 2nd did she pay September's rent before
leaving when was that due was it first month last month situation anytime there's money involved there's usually
usually some kind of Trail some kind of paper trail here there seems to be no Trail Trails the trail is
non-existent there should be some more information regarding this apartment and I cannot help but believe that because
there's so many questions that start at Ground Zero which is her apartment and her work
that this has got to be something very local very local here and here we are in the garage with
yet another case just hoping and praying that with some information that we've been able to throw out and a lot of
speculation that we've been able to throw out that it generates more interest in this case and
could potentially generate some tips again if you know anything at all in this case if you know anything at all
about Simone ridinger please we encourage everybody with information to call the Sherborn Police
Department their phone number is 508 653 2424 and we will include that phone number in today's show
notes I want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage and sharing these cases on social media
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unsolved for over two decades brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister growing
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an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester New York and then
one morning she was gone check out catch the sparrow you can find that great title and many more other
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17 year old Simone Ridinger was last seen September 2nd, 1977 leaving her place of work - The Rainbow Restaurant in Natick, Massachusetts that afternoon. At least one person knows more about this story. There has not been a confirmed sighting of Simone since. Simone’s case is still active with both the Sherborn Police Department and the F.B.I. anyone with information about the disappearance, Simone’s life and Simone’s friends should call the Sherborn Police Department at 508-653-2424. The Natick Police Department is seeking information about the murder of Janine Callahan who left her home to walk to work on November 9, 1985. Her remains were discovered on December 8, 1985 at the end of a dirt road, now known as Cherry Farm in Burrillville, Rhode Island. If you have information about this case or any other Rhode Island cold cases please call 1-877-RI-SOLVE.

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Brief Summary

The episode investigates the 1977 disappearance of Simone Ridinger, discussing potential witnesses and suspects in her case.

Key points

The Last Sighting of Simone Ridinger. Simone Ridinger, 17, was last seen on September 2, 1977, after her shift at a restaurant.
A New Witness Emerges. In 1986, a man claims he gave Simone a ride, but his story raises questions.
Conflicting Accounts. The witness's account of Simone's clothing differs from previous reports, raising alarms.
The Investigation's Frustrations. Detectives reflect on lost leads due to outdated reporting methods.
Eyewitness Accounts. Conflicting eyewitness accounts complicate the investigation into Simone's disappearance.
The Search for Clarity. Police are still seeking information on Simone's life leading up to her disappearance.

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