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[Music] crime [Music] a hard-working Pious honest and kind woman battles pervasive harassment at
her workplace she deals with it handling a difficult situation in a sophisticated
manner her intelligence and hard work pay off and she Rises up the ranks to a position of superiority at an outfit
dominated by tough men it is believed that these men her tormentors thought that they could bully
her to the point that she would quit her job but Susan tasoz was tougher and smarter than they
were she kept documentation of the harassment hoping that one day soon these bad elements that created so much
bad blood could be removed scrubbed clean and washed away but blood is thicker than water
even the bad kind and then one night in the middle of a graveyard shift Susan disappeared was this the case of
retaliation revenge or was it something else who would have wanted her gone how many of these bad elements were
involved just what the hell happened here can this case still be solved we will attempt to answer many of
these questions this week on True Crime [Music] garage Susan Tasco witz was born February 13th
1965 in Everett Massachusetts she grew up in a bluec collar town the bluecollar town of sagus
Susan was the middle child of three kids born to parents Ronald and marleene Tasco witz Ronald was a tractor trailer
dealer and marleene worked at the local grocery store Susan had one sister Deborah and one brother Ronald Jr the
family home was known in the neighborhood because it was a pink Ranch Little Pink Houses there captain now to
neighbors and those who knew Susan's family they all Rave about how sweet generous and friendly Susan was or as
everyone called her Sue Sue was athletic and active she enjoyed running roller skating and soccer in 198 3 she
graduated from sagus high school while there she had a reputation for being quiet but also reputation for being
sweet helpful and nice both to her teachers and classmates Not only was Sue athletic but she had an artsy side and
she was known for making crafts she enjoyed sewing and creating holiday decorations she was very active in the
Catholic Parish church that her family attended even teaching Sun school and serving as a Eucharist Minister she went
to Community College for a bit she aspired to be a cist but that didn't really seem to pay
the bills so she sidelined her dream for a more regular job more regular work and
she ended up taking a job at the same place that many other locals did back then this is the Boston International
Airport or Logan International Airport and we all know how this goes you get a new job you're thinking that life is on
the up and up but her life Sue's life becomes more turmoil than happiness that's exactly right and that's what we
will find when we go through the events leading up to the the time in question that her life was filled with turmoil
now we mentioned some of the problems she faced at work in today's trailer and we will get into her work stuff very
shortly but in her personal life it was also in major flux leading up to the time in question she had just broken up
with a long-term boyfriend who was an employee of an airplane fuel company and she left the Catholic church in which
she had been raised to join a fundamentalist Christian Church Susan was clearly seeking something at that
time in her life she typically worked the night shift and then went straight to Boston Church of Christ services in
Danvers on Sunday morning after leaving the airport she also attended a Thursday
night bible group her friends and family described what the Boston Globe referred
to as a fervent commitment to the extremist Church whose fundamentalist teachings and demands were thought to be
by some controversial this church was even termed a cult by several people now two
of Susan's friends who spoke with the Boston glob this this is Vicky Boon and an unnamed woman both said that her
recent breakup with her boyfriend it was Mutual it was amicable and there didn't
seem to be any problems there but she replaced that part of her life with a newfound passion for this fundamentalist
church that she had joined and she tried to recruit co-workers and family members
and Friends into its ranks she often brought Candy to work to sweetly bribe people to listen to her about her new
church and her experiences there she was so dedicated to this church that she missed out on sleep to help elderly
church members when they were ill driving members to church and to Bible study and even babysitting members
children so that they could attend services this to me and I think you will agree with me Captain what I see here
when we take a glimpse of Susan's life I see a person that once she decides to commit to something she's incredibly
dedicated incredibly dedicated to that and we see that with her church and I say unfortunately because I believe this
is all tied up in this case but I think we see this with her workplace as well well like
you're saying Sue is very dedicated to her church and she's dedicated to this job that
makes her Inner Circle a little larger than I think most people in her early 20s Susan got a job working for
Northwest Airlines at Logan Airport she started in May of 1987 working as a plane cleaner someone that cleans planes
at that time this is a job largely held mostly by women but she worked her way up to equipment Service employee by
December of that same year by 1989 she was hired as a member of the ground crew now at that time Captain this meant that
Susan was only the second woman ever to work the ramp for Northwest Airlines which at that time was the fourth
largest airline in the USFA Sue was a tough young woman and told others that she enjoyed the
physicality the work required slinging bags on and off the planes using the light sticks to direct the Jets in and
out of their Bays driving the loaders and Hauling equipment and supplies she told her family that she was happy and
that they had no reason to doubt her in fact her mother marleene told the Wall Street Journal quote she truly loved
working the ramp the thing she liked most was deicing the planes she just felt it was very important end quote
Susan's friend and cooworker Deb maikas said quote the ramp was always known to be a man's job Sue wanted to show she
could do it just as well as any man well if I know most men most men are [ __ ] so they're probably going to give her a
pretty hard time that seems to be the case here C Captain because much later in our timeline unfortunately it's going
to take until later for her family to discover what was likely the truth here that sure Susan seemed to have loved her
job in the beginning but at some point her job became a source of stress and not just regular work stress stuff this
is elevated stress which would include humiliation and an actual struggle sometimes dayto day
now in February of 1992 Susan was up for a promotion to ramp crew chief again this is at
Northwest Airlines the airline awarded the position to a male coworker Instead This is despite Union rules at
the time about senority so the union rules Captain would require that the job be awarded to
someone like Sue who was in a position of holding seniority over the person who was awarded the job so sue
petitioned the airline for a redress and ends up winning and so the ramp chief job became her job she was the first
woman to hold that title at that Airline this put her in a position of superiority over the Rough
Around the Edges baggage handlers and ground crew that she worked among and had to
supervise Men passed over for the promotion were iate and unfortunately some of these men
were rude enough dumb enough or both to let it be known that they felt that because she was a woman that Susan did
not deserve to get the job well let's go through this slowly she applies for a job that she should have got because she
had seniority she doesn't get that job so one person maybe multiple people make this
decision she then says this isn't right so she then sues the company so then those individuals that made the
decision if they didn't lose their jobs they I'm sure they were reprimanded and then you have all the
people well you have the one individual that they gave the job to that they have
to take away now he's butt hurt and instead of being butt hurt at the guys that made the decision he's going to be
butt hurt at Sue well and the the other thing we need to keep in mind too this is this is the
union that is telling the airlines hey th this is what what our Union has decided is right
and fair that what is right and what is most fair is that the person with the most seniority who applies for the job
should have first crack at it and that person is Susan the individual that that got the job and then they had to take it
from them the individuals that gave him the job instead of Susan it would only make sense that
they're a part of the same Union right right it's so it's it's this is a weird situation like and you do see this like
you have these groups that are supposed to be individuals Bann together for one common good but when things don't work
out for them individually all of a sudden they want to break the rules or they don't think that they were treated
Fair no you decided on those rules together you decided on what was most Fair together as a union so you should
stand up for your union brothers and sisters but because we're talking about 30 years ago more than 30 years
ago that PE people just didn't see things that way especially when you're you're talking about a line of work that
was predominantly held by men and had been for so many years yeah and it's a little bit of human nature you can't go
after the collective so you can go after the individual her coworker Deb who we've already referenced before and then
another coworker his name is Joseph snow both of them told the media that Sue faced
challenges from those that she supervised um because you keep it keep in mind the way
that these things typically work in a workplace is people tend to choose sides right when when there's something going
on when there when there's a dust up that's going on people tend to choose sides and some of the people that chose
the other side and not Sue side were people that she had to manage she's the boss now of many people and so these two
two people would later tell the media Deb and Joseph snow would tell the media that Sue faced challenges from the
people that she supervised she's button heads against people that work for her but that she continued to hold her head
high and perform at a high level on the job yeah I've actually seen this scenario go both ways I I was I was part
of a bank that was closing branches so we got moved to another Branch immediately the manager
said didn't ask for you guys to be here I don't care about you guys keeping jobs
here I am going to try to manage you out and she did she micromanaged to the point where people couldn't take it
anymore so they quit and then there was other employees that were like you're not going to be a thorn in my side I'm
going to be a thorn in your side and made it completely difficult and became a very very hostile work environment
and things like pay and having jobs affect everyone's livelihood and it affects people's families and it makes
sense that people get could even get to the level of of hostile uh regarding these situations
but it's also like let's try to keep level heads here and and make sense and again here in this situation we're
talking about a unionized job and unionized situation where they're supposed to be voting on
things collectively and deciding as a group and it's like if you're really going to be a part of the
Union wouldn't you back up those decisions that were made by the union even if it weren't in your best interest
or even if it weren't what was your idea you got out voted now sadly Captain it was shortly after this promotion that
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upward and cheers to you Colonel good to have you back in the good old state of Ohio thank you Captain cheers to you
thanks to everybody for hanging out with me at crime con and hope to see you again next year so now we're going to
have to jump forward here Captain to September of 1992 so just a little quick math here
Susan now with the title of ramp Chief has now been an official employee of Northwest Airlines for 5 years and five
months so let's go to Saturday night this is September 12th 1992 Susan is the overnight shift
supervisor working the 11:00 p.m. to 7 a.m. third shift that night Susan left Logan airport or
planned to leave Logan Airport I want everybody to underline that and keep keep that in
their mind make mental note of that statement Susan left Logan airport or planned to leave Logan Airport in the
middle of her shift so by now technically it is really Sunday morning the 13th Susan was going to go and grab
lunch for the crew that night so she had went around collect sandwich orders from
everybody on the crew she now has a list of Sandwich orders from her crew for a Riv sandwich shop that she was going to
go and pick up the orders from and she told the crew that she was driving to the deli to pick up the food and she was
going to bring it back this was a fairly big undertaking for my understanding here Captain anyone who has navigated
Logan Airport knows that it's not easy to get in and out of there it's a maze of off and on ramps with complicated
freeway exchanges so it's reported that Susan left or planned to leave around 1 a.m. as far as anyone knows we can't
find anybody who actually says that they saw that they witnessed her getting into
her car that night and this I think is is some key details of this timeline because she never came back to
work that night and was her car found at her work no her car is later found but not at work and and here's something
that I find and I believe everybody else out there will find rather curious so according to every report out there not
a single person at Northwest Airlines reported the fact that Susan had reportedly said she'd be right
back think about this she takes lunch orders from everyone sandwich orders from everyone says I'm going to go out pick a
to pick up lunch for everyone I'll be right back nobody at her work reports her missing she's not officially reported
missing until about a day and a half later how does nobody notice that she didn't return to work one but then on
top of that didn't bring back my lunch my my sandwich that I ordered like it it would
be pretty obvious to everybody there that she didn't return yeah big deal sitting around waiting for my
lunch where's Susan at and keep in mind we talked about the the hours of her shift right her shift reportedly is
11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. that night the reports are that she left at approxim or planed to leave at approximately 1 a.m.
that's relatively early in the shift for her for it to go unnoticed that she never returned so one nobody I'm not
saying that it went totally unnoticed what I'm pointing out is that it went totally
unreported so nobody reports that she didn't return one which she should have been
back maybe 30 minutes at the most 40 minutes at the most let's say there's still 5 hours plus of that shift left so
you mean to tell me that a whole crew of people who were waiting on their lunches and
who would be working and supervised by this individual for 5 hours 5 and a half hours right additional hours never no
noticed to the point of telling anybody that she was missing or didn't return very bizarre stuff there well we
don't know what their work schedules were like and how often they they saw her you know I've worked in warehouses
before where it's you might see the boss couple hours in the morning but maybe once it hits lunchtime you don't see the
boss around lunchtime but but here it's it's significantly different because you
have again a set of a set of people that are waiting for their lunches they're waiting for her return you think one of
those individuals would have said this is a little strange that she hasn't made it back
yet uh we should we should let security know this we should should let somebody know this I'll give you a very similar
scenario that I'm sure almost everybody's experienced because not everybody's boss brings them lunch I
don't know the setup did they hand in money was she willing to buy was this a regular thing or irregular thing I don't
know that setup I'm not going to pretend to know but I do know this setup and understand this setup which I think most
people will how many times at a job has somebody said hey man I want to take a lunch uh uh boss lady boss person person
I'm going to take a break I'd like to take a break or I need to make a phone call and the boss tells you no problem
you can go to lunch as soon as I get back from this or as soon as I get back from my break we've all been there and
what happens after like 20 minutes 30 minutes 40 minutes go by you start checking your watch you start checking
the clock cuz you you hey I'm expecting that break and then you would think after 5
hours people starting to would have some concern to tell somebody now let's flip
it to to somebody else who obviously would have concern Susan's parents now they were of course worried when their
daughter never came home from her shift but let's go back to what we know was going on in her life at that time and
cross exam and cross reference all of the material that we have all of the information that we have right so her
parents they're thinking look we know how busy our daughter is with her work we know how dedicated and
how much time she's devoting to her church and so they made some assumptions maybe she went to the church to help out
after her shift and that's why she didn't come home or maybe she picked up an overtime shift which wasn't uncommon
but then her parents catch wind that Sue had not been at work on Monday the 14th
so marleene her mother reports her missing reports her daughter missing at that point so that's why you have that
roughly day and a half timeline between the time it's believed that Susan was last seen by her co-workers in the
middle of her shift to when she's officially reported missing but she's reported missing by her family mind you
now meanwhile that same day that Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. there's a worker in
employee at Bravo Tire in Auto Service this individual he pulls into work at the mechanic shop this business
is located at Lee Burbank Highway Route One in Riv as he Parks his vehicle note that
that's the same town that she's going to go pick up the sandwiches from the deli
right as he Parks his car he's showing up for work that day he notices that there's a vehicle in the Shop's
driveway that was not on the appointment list that morning right so he sees this
car he goes in he checks the appointment list wait a second this car is not on our appointment list now mechanic shop
we know how this all works there's emergencies there's breakdowns that happen it's probably not uncommon that
someone would drop their car or have a vehicle towed to a mechanic's lot and then phone it in the next day hey need
some help thing broke down on the side of the highway but he checks his appointment list it's not on their
schedule so he goes out to further investigate and what he notices we should point out this vehicle it's a
Toyota torsell uh and it's blue in color but he quickly notices blood smeared on the trunk of the
vehicle and in fact the way that this is reported Captain is that there's so much
blood on the trunk of this vehicle that at some point it had not just smeared across the trunk but the blood had
dripped onto the ground near the back of the vehicle so of course the mechanic calls
the riv police now police arrive on the scene and they have the unfortunate duty
of opening up the car in the trunk and unfortunately inside they find Susan's body they find Susan Tasco it's
body in the trunk of the vehicle she's only 27 years old at this time and she's dead like you mentioned before we have
no eyewitness seeing her get into her vehicle to take that lunch break now you say she was found in her trunk what else
do we know about that scene well and this is really tragic too it's one of those extra sad parts of the story that
we come across regularly think of how this is all playing out she's she's technically been
found shortly before her her mother her parents are going to report her as missing but you know police have to have
to process the scene they have to do a little bit of work they hadn't got around to telling the mother yet what we
do learn though Captain is that the victim Susan she's found fully dressed later it was determined that she had not
been sexually assaulted but she had been violently beaten in and stabbed her cause of death
was multiple stab wounds to the back and blunt force trauma to the head and neck and I have some suspicions about
that and I think that that there's some other aspects of this case that play into some of those injuries and we'll
get into that in a bit but we probably don't need to tell you that this was very quickly ruled a
homicide the money for the sandwiches was found in the vehicle she never made it to the deli that night to pick
anything up there were some missing items the only reported known to the public missing
items and this is what Sue's family alerted police after they identified the body and after they identified her her
clothing and belongings and such the family told police that Susan always wore a 16in gold chain that had
two charms on it one was a Christ head Medallion and the other was a crucifix this item these items were
missing from her body when she was found dead in the trunk of the car and none of
these items have ever been found they've never been located police checked the surveillance
camera footage from the coastal oil New England facility this is a business across the
street right from the parking lot where her vehicle and body were found so across the street from the Bravo auto
shop whether they saw Susan's car arrive at Bravo and if so who was driving it is
unknown we know they checked the footage we don't know exactly what they've seen
but what we do know is police have stated that they believe that Susan was actually killed elsewhere and her car
just ditched at the Bravo shop the Bravo car repair place was noted to be very near the Esquire Club which is a bar
known to be frequented by employees of Northwest Airlines yeah when you start breaking down this timeline and you hear
that she collected money to go get sandwiches my first thought well I don't know if she collected remember I had
said I don't know that's one thing that I'm interested in finding out I don't know if she collect money or if she was
buying them or if theany was paying that part I don't know but the money the money that is believed to be for the
purchase of the lunches was found in the vehicle we do know that so still found in the vehicle but if co-workers are
saying whether they she collected money or whether they're saying that she was going to buy the sandwiches that part of
the story seems to check out then she leaves but nobody sees her get into her vehicle so we don't know if there was a
confrontation at that parking lot or where that where the conflict first started taking
place exactly and what we do the only thing we really do know is police saying that we believe she was killed
elsewhere and the vehicle was just ditched there which I think is really interesting when you check that against
the idea that we know that they check the surveillance camera footage across the street but we don't know what they
they were able to view on that if anything we don't know if if they could see the car pulling into the lot across
the street Susan's car or do they have any idea if one person got out or two people got out
right because you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to piece together that if police are telling you we believe she
was killed elsewhere then she wasn't the one driving the vehicle when it was dropped off at that parking lot yeah and
were they able to see somebody leave the vehicle was there another vehicle that came and picked up an individual after
the car was dropped off this could be some stuff that law enforcement knows they're just not
releasing it to the public and the interesting thing too is if there were other people involved
right people that worked together we we have nobody saying that they saw her get
into her Toyota tcel to drive off if she's attacked and killed prior to leaving you know airport security is
pretty good so I put the the percentage rate that she was attacked at the airport a
little lower on the scale I don't know what the surveillance was like or security was like at the time or in the
employee lot if there was one but I think that it's important to note that it is close to that Esquire Club a bar
known to be frequented by Northwest employees and there's at least one source that says that Susan had gone
there on more than one occasion and the only reason why I'm going out of my way to point that out again is if you were
planning to do something or somebody did do something in the moment and then needed some help you don't necessarily
need to have both individuals having been at work with her that night on that sh
if you could walk over to that club and catch a ride with somebody that you work
with who happens to be off that night to me if if cops are saying that she was killed elsewhere and that
vehicle was just ditched there then you have two choices either that was a random choice to ditch the car there
that night or it was premeditated that that location was predetermined to ditch the
vehicle and like you said there's Conflict at work there's people that she's arguing with I'm guessing some
higher ups and maybe some people that work under her some lower Downs yeah the the those lower Downs well we're going
to get into some some of those low Downs here in a little bit here Captain well see what I wanted to know is the day of
the day in question yeah is there anybody that says hey an hour into work fireworks were
were going off and and it was uh oh that there was some conflict that's taking place that people were witness of
right and look I don't think that there was one and I don't have a lot to base that off of but let's go back to one
thing we do know one thing we do know is nobody at her work reports her as missing and they have to work an
additional five hours with her once she were to return with those sandwiches at minimum five more hours so
I think it would be if there was some kind of conflict a pushing a shoving people shouting at one another if if
that was something that took place that that one happened at all but two happened out in the open it would seem
to me that somebody then would really pick up on the fact that hey Sue went out to pick up those sandwiches three
hours ago and I've not seen her since where's my tuna fish you know what I mean it's it it seems so bizarre to me
that nobody at work reports her missing and let's let's take this one step further we've already said that there's
Conflict at work with people that don't seem to like her and people choosing sides right and imagine if you're one of
those people that don't like her doesn't that give you even more reason to report
that she's not at work like oh I've been trying to tell you she sucks that she shouldn't have that job
here it is 5:00 a.m. and what she went out for lunch 4 hours ago that's the kind of thing that people babysit and
Report when they don't like people that they work with or work for now well and I just want to go on
record to say that if my tuna fish sandwich didn't show up I'm shutting down the whole facility I
will not be working I will not be working I will not help you work I will be shutting the place down until we know
what happened to my sandwich I don't want to get too far sidetracked but one of my favorite shows I think you should
leave says that there should be a rule against working through lunch should not be allowed now back to more serious
stuff though here captain and I want to touch on a couple things before we get into some of Susan's
workplace yeah disagreements situation harassment it could you could call it all kinds of different things within
days of Susan's murder suffk District Attorney Ralph Martin said to the papers they had quote no particular suspect end
quote now this might have been true at that point in time this is just days after but I'm telling you that is going
to change as time went on and as this investigation went on now let's talk about one of our favorite shows from
past time Unsolved Mysteries 35 years ago yes this show started of the more than 1,300 mysteries
profiled in over 230 episodes half of the cases featuring wanted fugitives have been solved more than 100 family
members have been reunited with lost loved ones and seven individuals who were wrongly convicted of crimes have
been exonerated and released that's according to Unsolved Mysteries website cases involving missing persons missing
heirs murder fraud and Amnesia have also been solved following Unsolved Mysteries
broadcast and according to their website that adds up to over 260 solved cases so
good job by you Unsolved Mysteries this case was featured on that great show season 8
episode 10 which also featured a segment about a wanted fugitive Albert Leon Fletcher a
Florida fugitive who was apprehended in Delaware after the broadcast so that's furthermore proof of that great show
shout out to Terry dun Mur and John Cosgrove the creators of that great show according to Unsolved Mysteries it is
not known if her former boyfriend was ever considered a suspect by police we had a couple listeners about a year ago
shout out to the beautiful listeners recommend this case and when I looked it up fired up the old search engine one
thing I noticed it was on Unsolved Mysteries went back and watched that episode and one thing that I I don't
want to gloss over is the fact that there was a breakup with this former boyfriend from my understanding though
Captain this was months in advance of her going missing from work and then found murdered in the trunk of her
car according to that show it's not known if her former boyfriend was ever considered to be a suspect at any point
in the investigation by police but what we do learn is that Sue's family backed him up 100% in fact saying that there is
no way that he killed her in fact photos of him and photos that he had taken were
visible in collages that were displayed at her funeral and he had been he was a big part of her life so the family
doesn't have any suspicions about this guy but it was unclear to me if police ever did but the way that this
investigation goes and the route that it starts to take about a year after she's
killed I think we're going to figure out that police if they they likely looked at the boyfriend how could you not the
ex-boyfriend but they had cause and they had reason to move on from him yeah I think any of these cases that there's
not answers right away you look into individuals like we like we always say look into the the Inner Circle first and
then move to the Outer Circle and when you got nothing repeat rinse and repeat at Susan's funeral a Snoopy stuffed
animal was next to Susan's casket Snoopy was her favorite character she had a collection of what's reported to be over
2,000 snoopies wow and a lot of people say that the character kind of sort of summed up her
personality too this according to her friend Vicky and what she told the Boston Globe her friends and family said
that Susan was a kind and loving person now when she died Susan was looking forward to being Made of Honor at her
sister's wedding and un fortunately she never got the chance well while we're on
this subject which one was your favorite peanut character who ever played the piano I don't really know the Peanuts
characters very well old Schroeder on the piano I I I was a big fan of lonus Van Pelt a lot of good characters on the
peanuts speaking of characters here Captain we talked briefly about suspects and one thing that is is very
interesting to me here is we we have the money that's found in her vehicle so that would point to the idea that this
was not robbery related there was no sexual assault on the victim she's brutally attacked and killed and then
left in the trunk of her car police saying that they believe she was killed elsewhere I have to believe that they
did not have a lot or were not able to pull a lot from the surveillance footage across the Street that's never been
confirmed but we don't know what they know but what we do know is that her mother and her
family for a good period of time believed that Susan was killed by a random individual that it was a random
stranger on Stranger attack which may make sense when you have somebody that appears to have no
enemies but also the vehicles found in this kind of random location that makes a little
bit of sense yeah we got to keep in mind though that her her family and police are unaware of the problems at work
early in this investigation well one of the reasons why that would make sense is because
what we see in a lot of these cases and what people have studied for years is are these patterns and so if you have a
victim where somebody tries to conceal that victim tries to hide that victim from
being found that normally you would lean towards somebody that actually knew the victim in this
case it's it's almost the polar it's almost the polar opposite cuz they parked the vehicle in a public place so
the vehicle is going to be found obviously somebody's going to report her missing now we're going to be
looking for a vehicle because her vehicle is also missing from work we're going to find that vehicle and when we
search that vehicle we're going to find our victim so it almost makes you lean towards the
idea that is somebody that she didn't even know well and I bring up from time to time the Killer is getting lucky and
I don't know that this was planned I talked about the location of where her vehicle was found was found at that the
business's parking lot the the auto repair Shop's parking lot in R did they know did they purposely put that vehicle
there because they look it's going to be found when you put the vehicle there in
that location it's most definitely going to be discovered there's no way not to discover but it's almost likely to be
found rather quickly and reported rather quickly so did they put it there knowing
that the business didn't operate until Monday morning keep in mind she goes missing the last reported sighting of
her is at approximately 1:00 a.m. on a sun Sunday did they put it there knowing that that would buy them some time that
the business wouldn't open up again until Monday morning or is this just another situation where the killer gets
lucky because I think that that that that short period of time that expires between the time that she is last seen
she's never reported missing in fact she's not from the timeline and all the sources that we have it technically says
that she's reported missing after her body is found so that gives us at about what 7 a.m. 7:30 a.m. on that
Monday back that all the way up to 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning right over 24 hours so over about 30 to to 31 hours expires
between the time that she's last seen and then her vehicle embody are found one thing when we talk about
suspects too we talked about how the family says that for the early part of the investigation they believed that it
was possibly a random individual that had killed their daughter and it was a stranger on Stranger
attack I don't know if they just came up with that on their own or if that's what
detectives told them that they they believed but you're exactly right the thing that would back that up is the
manner and how the vehicle is found and how the killer or Killers chose to conceal the body in a in a place where
it most definitely would be found and relatively quickly but then on top of that you the reverse of that is well the
stranger on Stranger attack there should be a motive and the obvious motives you
can say are not a factor here it wasn't robbery it wasn't sexually motivated there was no sexual assault so that
makes it seem much less likely now we talked about suspects early on or the lack thereof early on in this
investigation but what we learn from the Unsolved Mysteries episode is that about
a year so let's get into this real quick Susan and other female employees at Northwest Airlines were subject to
brutal and Relentless harassment from some of the male Northwest workers Sue started a secret journal in
February of 1989 this to record the behaviors she had was subjected to now for some reason she only kept
documentation of this for about 8 months or so but what she did record was shocking about a year after her death
this is when her mother Marlene finally could bring herself to go through Susan's things right she
was emotionally physically unable to do this for about a year and then she decides to go through
her daughter's things this is when she finds the journal that her daughter was journaling
about this harassment that she was going through at work and she's horrified by the entries that the journal contained
to me when I hear about this journal to me it's more about the fact that she works she likes her job she's probably
making good money and when there's conflict you need to keep detailed notes when it happened who it happened by
because you work in a situation where you do have a union and if you don't have detailed reports they're just not
as likely to believe you according to the UPI The Diary quote detail failed almost daily incidents of harassment and
her efforts to report them to the company end quote now Susan's family was so disturbed by the shocking revelations
of what Susan endured on a daily basis according to the diary that the Tasco wits believed that their daughter's
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Susan “Su” Tarasiewicz was the boss of a ramp crew at Northwestern Airlines at Boston Logan International Airport. She worked there for five years. She was last seen on September 13th, 1992 around the same time that she was going to leave work to pick up a lunch order. This is still an open case. Anyone with information should contact Massachusetts State Police at (508) 820-2300.

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Brief Summary

Susan Tasco faced workplace harassment before her murder, raising questions about her disappearance and the investigation into her death.

Key points

The Rise of Susan Tasco. A hard-working woman battles harassment at her workplace and rises to a position of power.
A Night to Remember. On September 12, 1992, Susan planned to leave Logan Airport during her shift for lunch.
The Mysterious Disappearance. Susan's coworkers never reported her missing after she left for lunch. How could this happen?
Tragic Discovery. Susan's body is found in the trunk of her car, raising many questions about her death.
Unsolved Mysteries Feature. Susan's case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, highlighting its ongoing intrigue and complexity.
The Mysterious Death of Susan. Susan's murder raises questions about the nature of her death and the investigation.

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