Susan Taraskiewicz /// Part 2 /// 703 | Forensic Files

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Sue's mom Marlene could finally bring herself to go through Susan's things this is when she found a journal
authored by her daughter and inside it contained horrific entries again according to the UPI the diary
detailed almost daily incidents of harassment and her efforts to report them to the company so these are
detailed writings about incidents that took place at her workplace at Sue's workplace of
harassment that she endured and her efforts to attempt to report them to her higher ups at the
company well I think what this does for the investigation is we know or we've heard rumors about the harassment about
the conflicts at work but now we have a detailed report so now it's going to give us some suspects to look into and
keep in mind the evidence at the scene where her body is found in the vehicle her vehicle that her body's
found in the trunk that evidence didn't lead police to any suspects of note it's only going to be this discovery of
this journal this diary that will eventually lead them to suspects and we're going to see immediately why right
now we have her family Susan's family they're so Disturbed and shocked by the revelations of what Susan endured at
work that in March of 1994 so remember she's killed in 92 in September of 92. in March of 1994 her family filed a
complaint on Susan's behalf the complaint alleged that the airline and its employees labor union had done
nothing to stop this ongoing harassment but they also had another goal besides just avenging the unacceptable workplace
Behavior they hoped that the complaint would then there's going to be an investigation that will take place based
off of their complaint that would have nothing to do with the murder the murder investigation but they're hoping that
investigation would help to flush out information about who killed their loved one and remember we finished yesterday's
show by saying her family believed 100 that her death her murder was connected to her workplace yeah I think there's
two schools of thought one did she go out to her vehicle was she attacked there did she get in to her vehicle and
go to pick up these sandwiches and get attacked over there by a random stranger or was this a plan attack
by somebody that she was having conflicts at work I think if this crime took place today the first thing they
would have done is round up everybody on that shift anybody that she had a conflict with and collect DNA the
Massachusetts commission against discrimination the mcad investigated this complaint filed by Susan's family
the mcad reviewed the writings in Susan's journal and testimony affidavits of five Northwest employees including
two men which stated the following a giant lewd character of Susan was scrawled on the inside cargo hold of a
Northwest plane where Susan would be guaranteed to see it the drawing was sexually explicit with
her legs spread wide and was clearly intended to demean and degrade her other findings include these graffiti
around the airport's cargo areas mentioned Susan's performing oral sex there was a drawing of a coffin with her
name on it that was left in the women's bathroom there were words like [ __ ] [ __ ] and
[ __ ] that were scrawled with her name well not her official name but remember many people called her Sue just simply s
u right and so these horrible words they're written on walls in graffiti or written on walls in the restrooms with
her name Sue T attached to it so not exactly her name but it doesn't take an Einstein to figure out this is somebody
saying terrible stuff about this woman yeah and this is very bizarre to me I've never worked in a workplace that
this kind of activity took place well it gets it gets stranger man like there's female undergarments and tampons
that were commonly scattered around the break room the employee break room and even hung from the ceiling
the break room was littered with pornographic magazines including nudie posters uh taped to the fridge
male workers including a supervisor would expose themselves there's at least one report of of some
of a male employee or supervisor peeing in people's drinks yeah I mean this is I mean I've had
people that have severely not liked other co-workers but would not waste their time or their energy
on doing things like this this is when I go if I'm an employee first off I couldn't be out the door
faster but yeah once I hear about you pissing and drinks uh Captain's gone but then on
top of that and I'm not faulting sue for sticking with this job I mean her journal is detailing her attempts to
report these items or efforts to say hey there's something bad going on at this workplace and maybe her being a good
person a good-natured person thought that the problems would eventually go away if she took the right steps the
steps that she was probably told to do hey you know file a complaint with this file a complaint with that but that's a
problem sometimes with with unions though is they're set up to protect you but they're also set up to to protect
your co-workers but you you see this kind of behavior and I'm sitting there if I'm an employee going
you're kidding me I have to pay into a union and this is what I have to witness at work yeah or to be afraid somebody's
going to piss in your drink I mean come on there first of all there's and I get it it's 1992 1990 you know this stuff
according to the the Wilder times the journal starts taking place in 1989 and no and I'm I'm not saying that that's
why I get it I'm just I there will be somebody that will email me and say hey man it was a different time it's like I
don't know I wasn't old enough to work back then but I can say this like I don't think that pornography is is
should be in the workplace at any time anywhere I mean unless you're in the pornography business than that right
then it should be everywhere it should be everywhere but I mean this stuff dude I when we started to go through this
I couldn't believe what I was reading and at first I had I was like this has to be
embellished yeah exaggerated there's five there's five other she journaled about it there's five other
employees that were willing to testify and sign sworn affidavits that this is what I witnessed when I worked there
yeah because I could see I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that something happens where somebody
didn't get a job they feel like they got screwed over and they drew a character you know obscene character somewhere in
the office and then she saw it got upset and that's that's the end of that but for it to continue and then to
escalate and then to have managers that are exposing themselves yeah and then you have a situation there was one
report of Susan having been shoved To The Ground by another employee um there is some thought by these
individuals that sign the affidavits and that we're giving um uh statements for this harassment investigation
that states that it is their belief I'm not saying all five because I've not been able to review all the statements
here but at least one of these individuals believed that because Susan filed complaints about these other
grievances that she was assigned to work the lav truck for a period of time emptying the
toilets for a period of time in a way that like you can punish a person without it being obvious that you're
punishing a person we're gonna make you work third shift and by the way you need
to empty out the pp and pupu there were a couple female employees that gave Anonymous affidavits because they were
worried about some kind of retaliation for giving statements but at least one of them said quote I often saw Sue
crying at work several statements said that the women were told by the union representatives
to not Rock the Boat uh Susan's diary apparently said that that when Sue complained about the
harassment both unofficially and in the form of official complaints filed with the airline she was told to just let it
go you know just just roll with it take the high road and you know look away and
what she should have done is this rolled her ass out to her car and never looked
back because sometimes you can't fix stupid so I was really hoping to put be able to put some actual names
to some of this harassment right who was the one conducting or behaving this way
and who specifically seemed to be targeting Susan our victim right we don't want any of this harassment to
happen at the workplace at all but for the sake of this week's case the what's most important is what was happening to
Susan and who was administering that yeah so here is one incident where we do actually get a name so there this is
referred to as the radio incident this involved A co-worker who sue had briefly dated now that's the only knowledge I
have briefly dated I don't know if that meant like one date two dates went out together were known as a couple
for a couple months I I don't know the extent of that but apparently what happened is that we do know that
things turn sour between them at some point and it is stated that this individual
his name is Bobby Brooks it stated that he's one of the worst defenders in terms
of his treatment of Sue at work so let's talk it sounds like a jackass like if I
was going to write a character and you know from the 80s and go John Hughes movie I I need a jackass character Bobby
Brooks so there's this radio incident and the way that Sue described the radio incident in her diary she dated it April
12 1989. Bobby came into the break room and she wrote that Bobby picked up and dropped purposely picked up and dropped
her radio violently onto a table and then he looks at her and says that he was mad because the Bruins lost
and Susan's diary entry continues saying quote he left the room and one of my co-workers picked up the radio and
plugged it in to see if it still worked Bobby came back into the room and this time he ensured that the radio would be
broken by throwing it hard against the break room wall Sue of course anybody would be upset
about this situation you have your personal property destroyed for no reason at all by this Meathead
that you work with right but Sue is especially upset about this because her mother
gave her this radio for Christmas for as a gift and so this is you know you take
take the radio to work you have something to listen to in the background while you're working and this man
destroys your personal property well to me if I'm law enforcement I'm looking at
this as a that's to me a violent threat it's you know I can't get physical with you because you're a woman and so people
would look down upon that or or maybe instantly get fired or whatever but I'll break this and if they come to me and
say well why did you do this I'll claim it's an accident but to me this is this is a violent
threat well and here's something that that is a violent threat as well here Captain so sue has a boyfriend at the
time he's also an airport employee and he demands tells Bobby that he has to replace the broken radio the radio
that Bobby broke yeah I'm gonna you replace the radio or I'm gonna break your face of course Bobby
being a raging [ __ ] did not replace the radio so sue then later reminds him hey you owe me a radio I thought you're
going to replace this radio and according to her diary when she tells him reminds him to buy her a radio
he says his response is what are you going to do send your punk boyfriend over here again is he going to beat me
up he's lucky I didn't kill him see again violent threat I hope if this guy didn't end up going to jail
I hope and if he had children I hope one of them's listening and they're hearing
that's my father and wow what a giant pile of [ __ ] he is because this is no way to treat anybody
there are some other situations where we do have persons that are named so this is in April of 1989 and this is when Sue
attempts to break up a fist fight that's going on between an individual his name
is Joseph nuzo and in case I'm not saying that correctly Captain it's n-u-z-z-o and this seems to have sparked some
trouble between Joseph and Sue going forward in fact there's a situation where he it's
reported that he very loudly cussed her out at the workplace so who was he fighting do we
have an idea of who he was in doing the fisticuffs with no but the interesting thing here is probably Bobby well
one thing we should know is that Bobby Brooks and Sue what we do know is they actually and I'm guessing this is based
off of what their job duties were in the Departments that they worked in but it is of note that they actually had very
little interaction with one another with a few exceptions and we know of those exceptions because they are
recorded in her diary and then backed up by the statements of some of these other
workers right right so these two really actually didn't interact very much at all at work together and then this
Joseph nuzo individual I don't know who he's fighting against but it wouldn't be
uncommon for if there were to be some kind of disagreement that gets to this point where people were up in each
other's faces fist fight is always a very vague description to me you would think that
it actually means fist or being thrown but a lot of times there can be just a pushing just a crowd of people
uh but it wouldn't be uncommon for the person breaking up this situation to be the boss
or the supervisor right but what it seems like is he then has a problem with her for breaking the situation up
there's no mention of these other individuals because I don't think they I think they probably expected whatever
was happening to be broken up they're probably happy that they weren't fired for that kind of
behavior at work yeah this case is so bizarre so Joseph because of this fisticuffs because he cursed out his
boss his Superior he gets a little vacation he gets a little suspension from work the old enforced impromptu
vacation from work now we do need to note that during the time that he is away from work
on this suspension Susan's vehicle was keyed her tires were slashed there were Anonymous Crank phone calls
that came to her home there were some phone calls that came to the home that said that uh
that that they were seeking revenge and it's hard to know because she was having
conflicts with other individuals it's hard to know if this was Joseph doing this or not
yeah it but it seems like it's yeah it sounds to me Captain like it's there's not 100 Proof
that Joseph nuzzo did all this stuff but it sounds like there's a pretty strong argument against him and a pretty good
uh group that agrees that yes he was the one doing these actions so she was having conflicts with him she was having
conflicts with uh Bobby was there anybody else that we know so here here's one thing that I think makes this a
little bit difficult we do have Bobby Brooks who we know had a problem with Sue and it that was clear he broke the radio
he harassed her but then we have the situation with Joseph nuzzo and according to Bobby
Brooks Joseph nuzo tells him that in regard to Susan that oh he will get his revenge I will get revenge
against Susan right the problem with that is it's like one bad guy pointing at the
other bad guy right two two people that that should be suspects you got one point at the other saying
well he told me that he would get his revenge against Susan and remember she started her job five years ago and it
seems like for the whole five years there there was almost like an escalation of this type
of behavior at her work and like we said we see these drawings we have these people breaking items
cursing her out at work I think uh uh like I said a violent threat when you're breaking her personal
belongings but also kind of a threat when you see a coffin with her name on it but then
there's also actual verbal death threats exactly the the report on this is a little loose so I want to be careful on
how we report it but for my understanding Captain remember we said earlier that usually when there's
conflicts amongst people there people naturally choose a side they'll pick a side not everybody but most people do
and in this situation seems to be no different so sue did have her supporters at work you know people that witnessed
this and people this you know she's being unfairly treated these people are harassing her this isn't right we have
her back and those people later told the Boston Herald that because we made it known that we support her
that we received threats some stating death threats from the people that had chose the other
side that's crazy now we did see reports that Sue's car and her friend's Vehicles were
vandalized in fact in the months before Susan's death Sue filed two more complaints with the Union this is the
International Association of machinists and Aerospace workers the first complaint was for unfair treatment in
the awarding of the supervisory assignments we talked about that briefly yesterday right the second
complaint was because her vehicle was vandalized in the lot where she parked it while at work at the airport
according to the Boston Globe her car was vandalized after she filed the first complaint but it was unclear whether
this occurred because she filed the complaint the union source told the globe her car
was messed up they scratched the paint end quote this had moved Way Beyond Simple workplace harassment this is
systemic bullying escalating to property damage intimidation and trying to instill fear
in a co-worker or a boss and shame on the union though because she is making complaints they're hearing about this
harassment it's like there's this Inferno there's this fire taking place at work and they're doing nothing to put
it out and look where all that bullying and all that harassment led to were possibly led to
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all right we are back cheers mates cheers to you Colonel onward and upward I'm going to file several grievances
about my workplace well I did piss in your coffee so in November of 1989. tinkle tinkle the union received
several letters from one of Susan's co-workers his name is Christopher he's known as Kip uh hedges
in these letters he also complained of being harassed at work and one of these incidents he says included
somebody drew a pistol Target with 11 bullet holes and it taped to a refrigerator they they drew this and
they taped it to the refrigerator in the break room and above the target with the
11 bullet holes it said kill hedges he stated that a tiny gang of workers had developed a pattern of violence and
threats at the workplace so he he writes this letter and then in filings with the
mcad Mr Hedges asserted that he too had been assaulted by this Joseph nuzzo he said for what reason he did not know
why this worker co-worker would assault him right after receiving the letters from Christopher Hedges the union says
it held an open meeting on the issue of tensions among employees so there there are they are stating here that yes we
identified that there were tensions among employees and what they did Captain was they later published an
article in their newsletter nobody reads the work newsletter nerd but in an article well then I'm going to
start I'm going to stop writing one every week so later the union published an article in its newsletter condemning
sexual harassment and workplace intimidation that should go without saying but glad that they put that in
print for us yeah exactly but what I'm getting at is that's all they're going to do when you have multiple employees
multiple members of your union trying to point out hey there's some really severe
problems here at this workplace they're like oh you know what don't worry we got
it under control we're gonna write an article in the newsletter and it'll straighten everything out yeah we have
people pissing in coffee I'm sure these these words are gonna they're gonna sink
right to their heart strings and it's not just women that are complaining like you said there's men complaining and
again stupid or lazy like why aren't they doing their job I think they did their job Captain they issued a standard
memo condemning sexual harassment they they that's the champion I want to work for
so that's kind of a long way around to get back to the point that Susan's family filed a lawsuit for the
harassment that she did face that nobody basically tried to stop nobody did anything about and she had to live in
this tortured environment they sue the company and they win yeah that that's the short of it and that's a good way to
sum this up because there's really a lot that you could tear through here and it
will kind of muck up our story but goodbye the Massachusetts commission against discrimination because they did
their investigation and goodbye Susan's parents and family to come up with this idea and the strategy that look
you know we refuse to to understand that our daughter was treated unfairly it may or may not have
anything to do with her murder but we refuse to not right this wrong and so they took this complaint to the
mcad and later this would be 1995 captain that the mcad they ruled in Susan's favor and her
family's favor they said that they found very compelling evidence that Northwest
had failed to protect Susan from the harassment she suffered at the hands of her colleagues yeah but this lawsuit's
not going to bring back their loved one somebody murdered her placed her in her trunk and left the
vehicle what it did do Captain Northwest Airlines then agreed to settle with the
family with Susan's family for seventy five thousand dollars but on top of that and I
you would hope that this would have led somewhere but here we are talking about this case so many years later but they
did agree Northwest Airlines did agree to post a 250 000 reward for information leading to Susan's killer and to
establish a scholarship in her name at the time at that time this amounted to the largest sexual harassment award the
commission had ever dealt with a spokesman for the airline said to the Boston Globe quote we are with the
parents entirely to help find who did this to their daughter end quote only after they were forced to be of course
we kind of remind everybody of that only after they were forced to be it was a bit of a
Hollow victory let's say for the family because it didn't as you pointed out didn't bring Susan back never could
bring Susan back but at least there would be some Headway in Susan's murder investigation
well and this is probably goes without saying but if you're in a situation where you're being harassed at work
and the people that are supposed to help protect you and are supposed to help make it be at least
a place that you feel safe you know looking back on my life now as as we talk about this case there's one
or two times that I was working a job man I should have left months before I did because once the person that is
bullying you sees that there's no consequence it just gets worse yeah they can act
with an impunity yeah and life is just way too short so you know and that's but some of that is self-care self-love if I
cared about myself enough if I woulda uh love myself enough that maybe I would have said this is not correct and
nobody's helping me here and it's just a job and it's time to move on right but why was Susan killed okay was it the
harassment cover up the harassment or somebody just just had it in for her so bad that they had to get rid of her
I think people can see Avenues to that idea real quick but the harassment is actually just the tip of the iceberg
into potential motives here especially potential motives when we talk about persons or suspects from her workplace
so there was something else going on at the time this is a lot of criminal activity on a much
grander scale and was Susan aware of this had she witnessed something was she privy to
some information that could get some people into some severe trouble here so remember Susan was in charge of the
baggage handlers and what's going on at this time U.S mailbags pass through Logan Airport
every day and those mailbags back then included brand new credit cards shipped by the Banks to their users in
the Boston and around the Boston area in 1991 a federal investigation by the Secret Service
and the Massachusetts State Police and the U.S Postal Service was launched into a massive theft of credit card
investigation from U.S mailbags at the Logan Airport eventually the credit card theft probe
revealed that seven million dollars in stolen credit cards had been lifted from that airport from the Logan Airport well
that's a motive and so how many people were involved in this well the thing is is
I don't think there's any mention of this in her diary or the journals of the complaints that she was making
but that doesn't matter if the person is suspicious that you possibly know that's all they need to know to have the
motive to try to take you out if that makes any sense well exactly and what we end up learning and this is from
The Wall Street Journal is that the thieves were using the computers at Northwest
to go through the mail and then eventually what they're doing is they're ripping open sealed mail
where they believe that there are credit cards in there and as we said there was enough theft
going on and theft of these credit cards that it eventually racked up seven million dollars
and fraudulent charges so the possibilities that we've laid out so far is that she heads out on her lunch break
and she is met with a stranger at some point another possibility is because of this
harassment at work somebody has it out has a vendetta against Susan the other possibility is
there is criminal activity done by one or multiple people and if they were suspicious to believe
that Susan knew more than they wanted her to know that that would be a motive for this crime as well and
I'm gonna throw in a couple of other suspects here before we get to one I want to point out the idea that the
harassers and the thieves could be one in the same or a couple that were involved in both right had
multiple motives now this is interesting too some of the the cards that were sold
they're stolen and then they're sold to a fence in a nearby town of Revere sound
familiar that's the same town where Susan's body was found for 10 of their available credit
so there's a little bit of a connection there now others were used by the actual
airport workers to buy merchandise such as camcorders and expensive items that's
not real smart because they're going to be easily traced back to those individuals that are working at Logan
Airport but there were some aspects to this that were that point out that it was a well thought out criminal
Enterprise so what we have here Captain the thieves stole the credit cards and then generated fake driver's licenses to
match the names on the cards they then used the activated cards to buy jewelry and obtain cash advances in casinos in
Vegas Atlantic City and Foxwoods but much more than just credit card theft and fraud was at play here according to
the Boston Globe the plot involved a mafia-like corrupt organization which had its hands in loan sharking drugs
betting and fraud the the ring was rooted in the orient height section of East Boston in fact that newspaper
reported that much illegal activity occurring at Logan Airport was mob sanctioned a secret service agent worked
undercover at the Northwest terminal during the credit card fraud investigation and gathered evidence of
illegal activity connected to the mafia and controlled by organized crime extending to the North Shore of Boston
and here is where we tie it back to some of Susan's harassers in April through August of 1992 a Federal grand jury
looked into the credit card theft ring on August 4th several baggage handlers received subpoenas from the grand jury
according to several sources the baggage handlers grand jury testimony revealed that Joseph nuzzo believed that Sue had
either told the police about the scheme or plan to help them ferret out the masterminds
newso told your boy Bobby Brooks that he believed Sue was quote the rat the government had hard evidence showing
that in August of 1992 just after nuzo and Brooks and other credit card thieves had learned that federal agents were on
to them nuzo stated that he bet Sue was the snitch or the rat that's August of 1992. Susan is killed
in September of 1992. yeah coincidence I I think not my friend but newso one of the harassers one of
the people that Susan got into at least well one time she was cursed out by this individual the one that had
a suspension and we thought maybe during that suspension he was vandalizing her vehicle but he later on
was fired yeah he's fired in August actually August 14th of 1992. and that's why I
wanted to point out early on when we started talking about the details of this case where her vehicle was found in
close proximity to that bar that was frequented by a bunch of the employees at that Logan airport now I can't tie
newso to that specific bar or being one of the persons that frequented that bar but it's interesting to me because you
brought up the idea and rightfully so it's on everybody's mind how many killers were involved or how many people
set her up how many people did it take to orchestrate what we do know did in fact
happen what we do know based off of what the police tell us is they believe and there's no reason for them to tell us
this if if they don't have evidence to suggest this they believed that she was killed
elsewhere well if she was killed elsewhere she did not drive her vehicle to where it was later found somebody
else did and either they walked away or somebody picked them up did they walk back to that bar catch a
ride with somebody that couldn't be at work anymore or did somebody that wasn't at work that
night pick up the driver of that vehicle I mean you can see how this plays out and now we start to bring and pull
identified individuals into the suspect Spotlight yeah so this is where it gets a little tricky because of her journal
we we know that she obviously knew about the harassment and the bullying and she
knew who was doing it and she could tell us who did what and when there is no evidence that
we can find that Sue knew what was going on as far as the credit card stealing correct
there's there's not proof positive that she absolutely knew uh you would think that she probably had
some idea that something strange or fishy was going on I mean she it's a large operation
and she's in a supervisor role so it's going on right under her nose essentially
uh one thing that was reported here captain that is of interest that would indicate maybe she knew something was
going on was the investigation one thing that it yielded was that when they were
divvying up the credit cards after illegally ripping them out of the mail that this typically would take place in
the break room lunch hours she leaves for lunch to pick up lunch for people but also one of her uh tasks
if you will as a supervisor was she would make assignments including the baggage handlers as well as regulate
their lunch hours their their their break hours of the workers right so did this
once she remember she got the new promotion shortly before she disappears for 24 30 hours and then is found dead
so given this new power this new Authority did she somehow shake up and make it so
that the players involved in the scheme were not on break together at the same time not in the break room together at
the same time well that's what I was saying to you off Mike is we don't know if she knew right but that
doesn't matter if somebody a part of this plan thinks she knows then that's a motive to get rid of her and it could
have been as simple as she gets in control and decides hey I'm going to shake things up a little bit by
switching people's lunch ing people's lunch schedules and she might not even known that by
doing so that foils their operation and and so if they go hey is there any way to get me back on this schedule or
this one and she says no this is just the way it is again that's that's a you're stealing millions of dollars
yeah that's that is motive enough whether she knows or not that she's foiling or operation
we have to get rid of her yeah and here's the thing the credit card theft in fraudly sorry and here's
the thing the credit card theft and fraud ring was a massive operation eventually 37 people were convicted on
federal charges related to this 7.5 million dollar corrupt Enterprise 10 of them were Northwest employees including
some baggage handlers five Northwest baggage handlers had been indicted as of September of 1993. this is Christopher
Sweeney cleave Frederick Thomas Cooney Richard Bart and Richard Raymond it also makes you wonder because these
people wearing Cahoots together and they have fine financial means do you place a hit on her and hey we'll
be at work when this takes place so none will be the wiser according to the UPI four specific baggage handlers Susan had
expressly named as her harassers were among those convicted in the fraud case one of the men who would be convicted in
the federal case in fact The Mastermind behind the whole thing was Joseph nuzzo he had started the operation shortly
after returning to work after his suspension brought about partially by Susan's testimony and don't think we
haven't forgot about old [ __ ] stained Bobby Brooks because he was indicted as well
yeah convicted he was a peripheral player I it seems like he himself did not steal any of the charge cards but he
was caught shopping with Joseph nuzzo using the stolen cards and he he played he definitely played a role
in this because he was in fact convicted on some of the charges well the harassment also seems this it
just seems like over the top like I said I've never experienced that kind of level of bullying I mean I've
experienced some hostile workplaces but I you almost wonder if it was like a a ruse
but having all this harassment and all this tension at work that maybe you won't notice what else we're doing
your hands will be so filled with this other nonsense that we bring to the table
but with all this going on at work the harassment this I mean this massive fraud that is happening
to me it would lean more towards somebody that's in her Inner Circle that's responsible for her death would
be it just seems like it'd be too big of a coincidence that just some random attacker
would would attack her at work yeah it's difficult because we are certainly missing some pieces of the
puzzle in fact to this day no one knows for sure whether Sue knew anything about the criminal
activity at the North that the Northwest employees were involved in it does seem
crazy to think that she didn't know though officials later said that a lot of people knew about what was going on
the number of people involved in the ring was close to 40 as we pointed out and Sue's friend Deb who we've talked
about previously said that one day shortly before her death Sue told her that she was afraid now of what
Sue did not say it seems likely in Deb letter later says that looking back in retrospect that
she just thought that she was afraid to stand up for herself and file complaints
about the harassment but now she looks back and wonders did Sue know some something else did she know more was she
saying she was afraid for her life in 2002 investigators decided to re-examine this case including retesting
any evidence I'm guessing hopefully physical evidence that was found in her vehicle at this
time the police decided to release photos of Sue's missing necklace in case someone recognized the medallions
one of the biggest knowing questions is where was Susan murdered this according to the district attorney
now they do not believe that Sue was killed in her car which means she was taken
somewhere else bound beaten stabbed before she was dumped at that Bravo mechanic
location found in the trunk of her car in 2008 Northwest merged with Delta Airlines Delta has pledged to honor that
250 000 reward that Northwest originally offered for information in Sue's case Massachusetts State Police say they are
still actively working Sue's case and they have significant leads well and with this case happening what over 30
years ago you wonder what evidence they have to possibly test with new technology
that's exactly right captain and we're told that they're keeping this investigation alive God bless her mother
because we know that she's been out front actively keeping this investigation very much alive and very
much on the minds of the general public they did put up some billboards with uh not only a picture of Susan but also a
picture of her blue Toyota Tercel and asking people did you see Susan or did you see the vehicle or both
on the night in question September 12 September 13th did you see this vehicle the other thing
too we don't know exactly when the vehicle was placed there in the lot as we said there's roughly about 30 hours
that expired from the time it's believed that she was last seen until the time that the vehicle was discovered last
year in 2022 the state police made the following statement quote we make a plea to anyone who can help us cross the last
few miles of this Marathon investigation if you have any information about Susan's murder or the person or people
who may have been involved please contact us whatever reason you had for remaining silent Until Now does not
matter anymore time passes and people change maybe you were scared maybe you were protecting someone or maybe you
just did not want to get involved in a police investigation yet time passes and people change so too
do priorities and the reasons for keeping quiet maybe you don't seem so important anymore not when compared to
the chance to do the right thing before it's too late and it's not too late anyone with such information is asked to
call the state police detective unit for Suffolk County at 617-727-8817 [Music] foreign
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largely in part because this book and the case featured in this book the fight of the victim's mother reminds me so
much of the case that we featured here in the garage this week you're going to want to check this one out it's an oldie
but a goodie the case is fascinating but the most fascinating part is the courage and the strength that we
all can get from being witness to This Woman's fight for her missing daughter back in 1974
seventeen-year-old Amy billig left her home to meet a friend for lunch and vanished and her mother spent
decades searching for her daughter you're going to want to check out this book it's called Without a Trace you can
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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 Teraskowitz's murder linked to workplace harassment and a credit card theft ring involving her co-workers.

Key points

Susan's Diary Discovery. A year after her murder, Susan's mother finds a journal detailing harassment at work.
The Radio Incident. Bobby Brooks violently destroys Susan's radio, escalating workplace tensions.
Vandalism and Threats. Susan's vehicle is vandalized after filing complaints, raising questions about workplace safety.
Systemic Bullying Uncovered. The workplace harassment escalated to systemic bullying, leading to property damage and intimidation.
Union's Inaction. The union's response to harassment complaints was criticized as ineffective and dismissive.
Lawsuit Filed for Harassment. Susan's family filed a lawsuit against the company for failing to protect her from harassment.

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