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good foreign [Music] yesterday we were able to retrace Susan Lyle's last steps leading up to her
disappearance and I'm going to give that an A minus there Captain we did a pretty
darn good job we also discussed her boyfriend rich in some questionable activities regarding him and his
possibility of being maybe a suspect being involved in her disappearance well not just his actions but the actions of
his family as well Mommy and Daddy are weird now before we get into some other potential suspects let's get into
another case that made Susie's case feel like deja vu in 1985 13 years earlier a young Sunny
Albany student named Karen Wilson vanished she was last seen on the same Central Avenue where the Stewart's
convenience store was located near Colony Place a shopping mall 2.4 miles from the campus
Karen purchased some clothing at the mall that day and while she had an appointment at the tanning Hut she was
not seen there so she was scheduled to go tanning no one says that she ever made it to this appointment
the last known sighting of Karen was at 7 20 p.m it is believed that she decided
to walk back to campus and was abducted near the entrance ramp to I-90 according
to our friends over at the Charlie project a strange man was seen in the area but neither Karen nor any of her
personal possessions have ever been found and a little freaky piece of information
Karen Wilson lived in the same dorm building as Susie the colonial quad dorm Karen is still missing to this day well
we see it a lot of times with college students going missing go back to the Brian Shaffer case and then you know not
that far away and not that many years away does Joey lebute go missing as well and with these people that just seem to
vanish Into Thin Air because you have so many questions it's so easy for us to sit on our computers and Link them
together because there's not a whole lot of details of the why or how was this person abducted or why did they go
missing in the first place right now let's fast forward to 2013 because police were looking at a 54 year old man
named Anthony Collins Collins attempted to abduct two Sunny college students at knifepoint
he approached one of these young women at the CDTA bus stop on the sunny Albany Downtown Campus area early in the
morning this would be 7 55 a.m and he threatened her with a knife to her back another student saw what was going on
and got involved somehow distracted the attacker and this young woman thankfully
was able to get away but at that same bus stop about 40 minutes later this same man attempted a second abduction
hey when the first one doesn't work out let's just stick around and find somebody else right A Double piece of
[ __ ] yeah there you go so he attempted a second abduction this time without a knife
and Anthony Collins was identified after police reviewed surveillance footage and
charged him with second-degree attempted kidnapping according to the Times Union
paper quote police are looking into the possibility however remote that Collins could have been involved in the
disappearances of Albany students Suzanne Lyle in 1998 and Karen Wilson Way Back In 1985.
but eventually police said that they had not been able to establish any link whatsoever between Collins who is
diagnosed schizophrenic and either of those unsolved cases well here's what the problem though is like we said
there's so many young students in a small radius these predators that are looking for that type of victim
they know where to go yep it's a it's what you would call kind of a high risk area just because you're around a whole
lot of people right you know when Ted bunny wanted to abduct someone he went to college campuses he went to the lake
where it was just packed that day it was easy to find a victim amongst a whole big crowd of people but also what's
different though too is you go to the suburbs you have people that are normally on a
more set schedule where these students their schedules are constantly changing and their
whereabouts are constantly changing so by them going missing I think it takes a little longer
for people to even notice when they're gone that's true two other suspects have been mentioned as possibilities in
connection with Susie's case now to be clear these names have not been mentioned by law enforcement rather both
suspects are theoretical ones named in podcasts which have delved into Susie's case one of these we have already
mentioned the upstate unsolved the other is True Crime [ __ ] the first of these potential suspects is a
guy named John Reagan John Reagan was a 48 year old son of a prominent and affluent family in Waterbury Connecticut
John's wife Ruth was a Catholic school teacher John himself he was a traveling salesman for a roofing and siding
company John and Ruth were popular and well liked but in 2004 old Johnny was arrested after cornering a young female
co-worker in his parents empty house he restrained her and tried to sexually assault her somehow she managed to get
away this was a huge scandal in the area at the time because John was a pretty regular dude he was a soccer dad a
golfing buddy to many people in the area a real neighborhood type of guy this was
just the tip of the iceberg 11 years earlier in 1993 a neighbor of John Reagan's a
working wife and mother named Donna palumba was home on Friday night asleep her kids were also asleep her husband
was away on a very rare trip to Colorado Donna woke to find a man straddling her
back he put a pillowcase over her head and tied nylon stockings over it covering her mouth and then around her
neck and restraining her arms and legs the man wore gloves and a mask he cut off her clothes and he raped her
when he was done he held a gun to her Temple and he told her that if she called the police he'd come back and he
would kill her she did not recognize his voice when she heard him leave the terrified woman
realized that the phone lines were cut she tried to call for help nothing happened now very BTK right on she
locked the front door and ran to her husband's cousin's house which was nearby to call the police
this cousin ran to Donna's house with an ax to guard the children while she was at his house calling for help
Donna went to the hospital that night and of course they did a rape kit but DNA extracted from it was not matched to
any known offenders keep in mind again this is 1993 right and the police this is
this is like double sad this woman is is violently attacked in her own home a terrifying
humiliating experience and then on top of that the police were not so great in this situation [ __ ]
there you go yeah that's what they call not so great people they chose not to believe Donna in fact they accused her
of lying because they're they're questioning you know what is the likelihood that this happened on the one
night that her husband was out of town they suggested that she was having an affair and was trying to cover it up I
suggest for every male out there that doesn't understand um sexual assaults or or
rape claims to watch I know it's a drama but you could learn a lot from the show unbelievable and
just the process in which females have to go through to report these assaults and and how many times they're not
believed uh by family members friends and the system yeah and where my mind goes with this group of guys
would be you know were their wives cheating on them is that why their mind went to that immediately I've I have no
idea I don't understand why they wouldn't believe a woman who ran to someone else's home to call for help I
mean seems bizarre to not give her the benefit of every doubt you could possibly have or also send one of your
family members with the ax yeah to to guard your children I mean yeah he clearly believed her so it was an
agonizing few years for this victim for Donna as her case stalled because the police did not seem to exhibit any
interest really in pursuing it I mean they they told her they didn't believe her so in 2001 now Donna she's pretty
Kick-Ass right she filed a civil suit claiming that the Waterbury Police Department did not do their job good for
her on a with a tape of her interview session with the Waterbury Police Department where they accused her of
making the whole thing up this tape now that she's taking them to court magically disappears right but the jury
believed Donna anyway and she won her suit against the police department yet her rape case still sat dormant with no
arrest this was until John Reagan was arrested in 2004 for the assault on his co-worker
and his DNA was found to be a match to that of the rapist of Donna 11 years earlier
the news was incredible to everyone because she and her husband were friends with the Reagans okay close friends they
attended each other's weddings in fact John Reagan knew that Donna's husband was going to be out of town that night
that's why he knew to break into the home yeah sicko so in 2004 this John Reagan he was
arrested first for the attempted attack on his co-worker he's released on 25 000 Bond
but was again arrested when Weeks Later his DNA came back to link him to that 1993 rape
unfortunately the statute of limitations had expired on Donna's rape case so all John could
be charged with on her case was kidnapping he pled not guilty and was released on 350
000 bail ooh yeah big Spinda better get a better job I hope you got some good income somebody was able to make that
bail he spent more than a year awaiting trial and in the meantime well he managed to rack up some more charges in
the fall of 2005 he dropped off a roll of film to be developed at a Walgreens the film processor guy well he was a
pretty smart dude and he recognized John Regan from the local news so he thought I better take an extra
look at these photos that John dropped off he's either a smart guy or he was a sicko himself well I'm gonna go with
smart good upstanding citizen because these were not loving shots of family scenes one that people would expect to
see no instead these were clearly surveillance style photos of women going about their everyday activities who did
not know that they were being photographed so Waterbury Police worked to charge John Regan with stalking but as they
were putting together their case something else happened in 2005 John traveled back and forth between
Waterbury and a property owned by his family in Saratoga Springs New York he was living there and working as a
handyman when the following occurred on Halloween 17 year old nationally ranked track star
at Saratoga Springs High School named Lindsey Ferguson returned her car at the conclusion of the afternoon practice
next to the driver's side of her vehicle a van was parked so close that she had to like you know like turn to the side
and kind of squeeze her way in so that she could enter her vehicle yeah the incident was described in a New York
Times article said Saratoga Springs police said she came back to her car after track
practice there was a blue gray van parked next to her she was putting some things in the back seat and she heard
the Vans sliding door open a man grabbed her around the Torso and mouth and tried
to drag her into the van she was able to get her mouth free and she started screaming for help
Lindsay thought for a fleeting moment you know because it's Halloween that maybe this was some kind of prank
but obviously very quickly it became apparent that it was not she fought Kicking and Screaming good
for her and attracted the attention of her coaches they ran over and one of the track coaches confronted
this guy the attacker gets back into his van closed the door and now he drives off
another coach began chasing the vehicle calling the police on his cell phone as he ran telling them exactly where the
van was heading and telling the license plate number at the same time this one fast guy running after this van
oh it's a track coach right right police pulled over the van and one of the officers is questioning
the driver the driver assured the officer that it was all just a misunderstanding
his partner is snooping around and looking inside the van at the same time and this is this guy this officer finds
that the rear seats of the van have been removed in the large space in the back they found a spread out tarp a rope that
was pre-tied with slip knots booze a saw a shovel photography equipment construction tools
and a syringe that was kit that contained a sedative the man arrested that day driving the
van was John Reagan oh he had to get all of his crimes in before he went to jail
the I think the other thing that here that's so scary is it's obvious whatever this guy was up to
or whatever he wanted to do he couldn't stop himself even though he's already facing charges and like you said maybe
he's so damn addicted to this or he so it entrenched in these fantasies that he has right that he's got to live one more
time before they put him behind bars right this is why this type of crime there should be no bail
because it's you know that uh addiction or drive I mean we've seen it we saw it with Bundy we saw a guy that seemed to
be very calculated turn into a wild animal uh when he was on the on the run now also found in the van were photos of
other young women including the young co-worker that John had assaulted in Connecticut got him so it turned out
that there was proof that John had not seized Lindsay in a simple crime of opportunity he had been stalking her
he was found to have looked her this is the Young track student or track star he
had had photographs of her and it was found that he had looked her up on his computer and taken pictures of her
beforehand he had targeted her and it had been following her for an unknown amount of
time John Reagan was not able to get bail this time there you go captain he was charged in Saratoga County with
attempted kidnapping while in Saratoga Springs jail he tried to commit suicide by attempting to hang himself
oh I wish you would have been better at that well they should have just had the guards help him out right hey what are
you trying to do in there okay no tie the knot this way get get this man some better sheets yeah he was transferred to
the central New York Psychiatric Center near Utica to await trial meanwhile his connected family remember he comes from
a a good family a successful family they hired a powerful Hartford lawyer to represent him now after Reagan was
arrested in 2005 a 50 year old woman came forward and reported that at a Memorial Day picnic
way back in 1981 Reagan restrained her in his vehicle in an Alleyway and assaulted her in his vehicle
she said she knew Reagan she knew his father his father was her dentist she said that she never reported the
incident because she was embarrassed in May of 2006 John Regan pled guilty to second degree attempted kidnapping of
Lindsey Ferguson he was sentenced to 12 years in prison in New York state in October of that same year
remember this guy's getting charged with all kinds of stuff he's in court again this time in Connecticut on the
kidnapping and unlawful restraint and stalking charges he was not required to admit his guilt at this trial but he did
acknowledge that the prosecutors had enough evidence for a conviction the old no contest plea I'm guessing the
agreed-upon sentence in Connecticut was for 15 years to be served concurrently with the New York term after John
Regan's arrest in 2005 for the attempted abduction of Lindsey Ferguson investigators in Connecticut New York
and Massachusetts as well as the FBI started digging into Reagan to see if they could link him to any other crimes
two of these were the unsolved murders of Mildred Alvarado and Karen Everett this these are sex
workers who were strangled to death in Harrington in 1988 and 1989. both of these victims were known to police to
work in an area that was one mile from Reagan's house oh my God but investigators suspect that Reagan
operated on a much wider scope too as an interstate traveling salesman remember he's a traveling salesman this for a
company called ABC Supply well he had access to a wide range of locations where he could have committed
rapes and or murders all right now that was a long tangent so what does this POS what the captain likes to say piece
of [ __ ] John Regan have to do with Suzanne Lyle when he was arrested in Saratoga Springs the Lyles very smart
parents asked the police to revisit Susie's case to see if he could be responsible to see if anything ties him
to Susie's case there are some let's say circumstantial evidence let's go through some of this here
Reagan's family property in Saratoga Springs the town where he tried to abduct Lindsey Ferguson the track star
was near the sunny Albany campus it was roughly a 30 mile drive okay Susie had mentioned to her co-worker
that she thought that she was being stalked and she didn't know who the guy was remember Reagan was known to stalk and
photograph his eventual victims yeah what did I just say about Predators If You're Gonna Go Fish you go to the pond
with the most fish that's right so he could have spotted Susie at the mall or spotted her walking from the bus
or at the bus stop at any time and fixated it on her yeah Susie told her co-worker that while she didn't know who
the guy was she was not afraid of him this is all a very weird but again the soccer dad right and as said earlier I
mean John Regan was known to be and he's a friendly guy he was well liked by the
people that didn't know what he was really up to he was an outgoing dude and if she ever made eye contact with
him he might have smiled and that might have been just enough where she's like okay this guy's a little strange but not
that worried about it well maybe that's how he locked in on her right maybe he came in contact with her maybe he spoke
to her at the store where she worked at the mall and then started secretly following her
and observing her routines and decided to snatch her after she got off the bus that night did you say where they found
the sex workers uh um I did not but they were known to work within a mile of his home
I don't know that they really have anything other than that linking him to those possible cases right it sounds to
me like both those cases went cold very quickly and they didn't have a whole lot
in the way of leads but we also see a pattern of him not being able to control these urges exactly this is something he
these urges are in control of him yeah the 2005 attempted abduction of Lindsey Ferguson
looks very much like the work of seasoned abductor or maybe even a seasoned killer
the materials I mean think about the materials found in his van and the amount of preparation
that he had to go to a lot of that doesn't seem to indicate that this was his first time in fact we
know that it wasn't he's broken into somebody else's home raped her in her home and now he's coming very well
prepared to kidnap assault and do whatever else he decides to do should he get that poor girl into his van well
he's so arrogant that he believes he can get away with it it doesn't matter who it doesn't matter even even if you know
him even if he's a close friend of yours and some say that he was known to spend
time in the area near the campus where Suzanne disappeared now in a terrifying recent development
John Regan remember he got concurrent sentences this is not a good thing for anybody
he was released from prison in October of 2019. three years earlier can anybody explain to me why there's a statue of
limitations on rape charges um I don't believe that there is today I believe that that has changed I'd have
to look that up and it might vary state by state but I think that that is something that's changed in the late 90s
I don't have that information right in front of me especially like in this case we have definitive evidence that he's
guilty of this right so I I would not I just don't understand make any sense um he is subject to Post Release
supervision until the year 2024. he is apparently living in the Saratoga Springs
area of Massachusetts and working as a skydiving instructor so uh any female listeners in that area
should be particularly careful yeah when you're skydiving instructor you're strapped to the person's back so you
have this creepo strapped to your back what a way to go [Music] foreign [Music] we're back cheers mates tall cans in the
air my friends the other possible suspect in a stranger Abduction of Susie Lyle is serial killer Israel keys
Keys has taken on a reputation of almost mythical proportions he is as we like to
say the catch-all killer Herman Webster budget AKA H.H Holmes in the Ed Wayne Edwards
fit this category as well he is just the newest amongst these three where if this guy was alive and
out at the time and we have an unsolved murder this is somebody you should look at so I find that to be
well really just stupid to be honest with you I don't follow the old suspect zero
Theory way of thinking very much but Keys is an interesting possibility in this scenario all right so why is that
well before we get too far along I do want to point out that Keys has it's been floated out there that he is a
suspect by the followers of such cases as Jennifer Cassie Russell and Shirley durman and Mara Murray all cases which
we have covered now this is because Israel was a notoriously cunning devious killer who
left very little to no trace of his crimes it's very likely that he's responsible for who knows how many
murders but in the case of Susie Lyle there are some actual links between the two that could point to Israel Keys
being involved now to say the Israel Keys was a methodical and calculating killer is
like saying that Albert Einstein was a bright guy some of you have heard of the kill kits
that Keys buried around the country in preparation for crimes he would commit much later sometimes he would fly to
cities across the U.S than rent a car and drive a thousand miles to find a victim to kill he would select victims
that suited him at random the ultimate crimes of opportunity as a result his crimes are almost
impossible to pin down with in regards to Susie Lyle well when Keys was arrested the FBI spent months
interrogating keys there are over 40 hours of videotaped interviews with keys many of which are available for viewing
on the FBI's website now to say that he was interrogated isn't really the right word the FBI agents sucked up the keys
in every manner bringing him treats like cigars and bagels and doing him favors it's gross but it worked kind of
Keys only told them just as much as he wanted and then he committed suicide in his cell in 2012 leaving investigators
to try to piece together the rest but here is what we know about keys he is believed to have killed approximately 11
people again no one really knows for sure how many victims he really had he claims his first abduction was in 1997
when he kidnapped and raped a teenage girl who was white water rafting on the Deschutes River in Oregon
Israel let her go and said later that he had lost his nerve about killing her this is believed to have been his first
actual attempt to carry out his murderous fantasies he told the FBI that he had been quote two different
people for 14 years the experts who have spent years studying Israel agree that it is very
likely that this means his first successful murder was in 1998. this is also the year that Susie Lyle vanished
he claims to not have successfully killed anyone though for a few years after the Deschutes River abduction
no one really seems to believe this Israel Key's own property in Constable New York this was a 10-acre parcel of a
rundown house on Poplar Street that he purchased in 1997. okay so this puts him in the state of New York within a year
of this young woman going missing right he was staying at this location during the time period in which Susie was taken
this is about 200 miles from the spot where she was abducted so it's still a good deal of distance but we can put him
in the same state Israel Keys was known to be very familiar with the area and spent quite a
bit of time there he would later go on to rob a bank in Tupper Lake New York in 2009.
Keys told investigators that one of the ways he planned his murders and to elude
detection was to commit the Abduction the murder and the disposal all in three different states Albany New York is very
close to the borders of each of Massachusetts and Vermont seems like a preferred location for this man and
there is a good chance that he was in the area of the s-u-n-y Albany campus in March of 1998. well like you said he
also traveled quite a bit so A Thousand Mile Drive when he's saying that's not that far for
him to drive um you know two 200 miles isn't that far right and we have a witness who says she
can put him in that area in the month that Susie disappeared so this woman who was an attorney for the U.S state
Department spoke with the FBI after Keys was arrested in 2012. she said that she
recognized him from an incident when she was loading packages into her car outside of a Marshall's department
store in Albany this in March of 1998. she says a young man with wavy dark hair who she described as looking
like Beaker from The Muppets approached her and they had a very bizarre encounter with this man she said that
this incident was unnerving to her and she would never forget it so when she saw Israel on the news years later
she says she was 100 certain that it was he who she spoke with that night recognizing both his face and she says
his voice seeing the video was traumatic for her because she remembered keys so clearly
the marshals in Albany is across the street from the Army Recruitment Center where a few months later Israel Keys
would enlist in the Army the Marshall store in the Army Recruitment Center are both on Central Avenue the same street
that the stewards convenience store where Susie's ATM card was used just two miles down the road
so this all really puts it seems very likely that this man Israel Keys may have been in this area that month right
I find it it's a huge coincidence that he and enlist in the Army at the recruitment center across the street
from this Marshall store because at first I was like am I supposed to believe this woman who says years
earlier she recognized this guy right but it's right across the street from the Marshalls parking lot that she's
claiming she was at talking to Beaker yeah and and then top that off with she's an officer of the Court she's a
you know an attorney with the U.S state Department so she's got some credibility and it seems
like the FBI they believe her to be credible well it seems like he's also planning out his disposals
of the body maybe more so than a lot of killers so I wouldn't suspect that he would dispose of bodies on on poverty
that he owned but do you know if they've searched that property that much I believe that this property has been
searched a good deal he would have been and look I don't like the champion these
guys um I don't like the pat him on the back we just caught him Beaker so Keys would
have been too smart to bury somebody on his property right he just kind of done that and one thing that's smarter I
think is there was a discipline there well one thing that he's doing that is very that shows his level of
preparedness and his level is discipline as you say is it's clear to me that in several
occasions of his crimes that he is choosing the disposal site before he's choosing a victim right
which is in complete opposite order that a lot of other criminals carry out this
type of behavior he loves the randomness of the victim one for his own enjoyment but two
so that he is not detected but maybe there's also a thrill there as well right his own enjoyment yeah
where it's like that's part of his sick fantasy is that he I got a plan where I'm gonna dispose of the body I have to
plan all these things out and once that is planned out now I just have to find the victim
and that's I think part of part of his sick game where we see in Reagan's case part of his sick game is stalking them
and taking pictures of them and understanding their movements yeah it seems that Keys enjoys the it's like
it's like a video game right you know when you play a level on that game for the first time what your ultimate goal
is you don't know what you're going to encounter along the way he knows what the end result is the end result that he
wants he loves the thrill of the uncontrolled unexpected variable of what the randomness of the victim could throw
his way now Susie's ATM card was used to take out twenty dollars after she was abducted or after she went missing the
person who did this managed to avoid using a machine with surveillance cameras Israel told the FBI that he was very
careful to avoid machines with cameras and he used Samantha's he used a previous victim's ATM card to take out
twenty dollars to be sure that she had given him the correct pin so this was something he had done on another
occasion right when he abducted a woman took her ATM card got her to give him the pin and then successively chose
chose machines that did not have cameras on them and the final piece of compelling evidence that Keys could have
been responsible for Susie Lyle on his computer the FBI found searches that had been conducted for 44 missing
persons It is believed that this list of names is a combination of both Israel Keys as victims plus other missing
persons cases that he was interested in for whatever reason we know that at least two of his actual
victims are on that list and another name that is on that list is Suzanne Lyle and keys admitted to killing one New
York State victim she also fits this profile of course the statistical odds that an
Infamous serial killer such as Israel Keys killed Susie Lyle are still very very low but there is just enough there
to make us think that perhaps it's not so unlikely after all I do also want to note here our
listeners will be interested to hear this captain that Jennifer Markham was also on this list as we know she was
killed by Scott Lee Kimball who we covered right so again it's believed that this list is his victims
plus some missing persons that he was interested in whatever reason jaleek rainwalker is also on this list
and it seems very unlikely that Keys was the killer of of young jalik unless he just so happened upon the child after he
ran off right now whoever took Susie it seems almost certain that it was not just someone who was you know hiding in
the bushes or someone who followed her from the mall on the bus since there's no trace of her that's
ever been found except for this ID tag it seems certain that a vehicle had to have been used in her abduction get her
grab her put her in the vehicle and then drive off both keys and John Regan of course were
known to have used vehicles in their crimes and in their attempted crimes as well alright so where do we go from here
well we do have some Victim Advocacy that was set up by Susie's parents her mother Susie's mother Mary Lyle says
that after wallowing in her depression for five years she was finally able to motivate herself to trying to take a
more active role in the search for her daughter she and her husband Doug established the center for Hope an
organization designed to provide support and assistance to other families of missing persons and push for legislation
to enhance law enforcement's response to missing persons reports the center for Hope also helped create
New York's annual missing persons day which is in April each year observed on the Saturday closest to Susie's birthday
the organization which has non-profit status also helped produce and distribute 55
000 drink coasters to area restaurants and 30 000 decks of playing cards to all of the county jails in New York the
coasters and cards feature missing persons cold cases they were the brainchild of the Lyles who heard of a
similar program in Florida according to the Times Union the center for Hope also worked in tandem with New
York officials to create the investigative guide for missing college students and collaborate with law
enforcement to publish what to do if a loved one goes missing a guide for Left Behind family members
the Lyles were directly responsible for getting some significant legislation passed at both the state and federal
level in 2000 Governor George Pataki signed the New York State campus Security Act which requires all colleges
to develop plans for investigating a missing student or violent offense committed on campus this was to avoid
situations like that day the Lyles had encountered where Susie's disappearance was sort of dismissed by the campus
police and there were no protocols for contacting law enforcement then in 2003 President George W Bush signed Suzanne's
law which eliminated the waiting period for law enforcement to launch an investigation when a person between the
ages of 18 and 21 goes missing and in 2007 Congress enacted the Suzanne Lyle campus Security Act which requires
colleges across the country to have written plans on how they will work with local law enforcement agencies if you
think about all of the missing college students we have covered just on our show Lauren spierer Brian Shaffer Jesse
Ross Mara Murray these important laws could have certainly helped their families address their tragic situations
with more efficiency and expediency a year after Susie was taken Doug Lyle wrote a letter that he published on his
blog offering a 25 000 reward for information on his daughter's whereabouts the letter was
addressed to the person who took Suzanne here are some excerpts I often wonder whether March 2nd means
anything to you do you remember the 19 year old young woman you took from us do you still have her with you it has been
nearly a year since she vanished but she is just as loved and dearly missed do you know the person you took
Susie is a very creative person and is inspired to write poetry it seems to flow in from outside of her
she is a shy but a friendly person whose warm smile and easy manner can cut through other sadness and put those
around her at ease her sense of fairness and loyalty to her friends are well appreciated by those who know her well
you took away a wonderful person someone who probably would have stood up for you
if things weren't fair did no one do nice things for you I have found some comfort in picturing you not
as a mean ugly bad person but someone's child someone deserving and needing love and
acceptance who possibly misunderstood Susie's friendship as a romantic interest if love wasn't shared in your family I'm
sorry every person is entitled to the love and caring that family and friends provide
if you still have Susie I wish for something good to happen to you a success that makes you feel satisfied
and positive about yourself hopefully then you will treat her well I hope you have peaceful moments when you
can walk in the woods or through the fields content not miserable and vindictive I'm not sure what I would say
although after so much time surprisingly I don't hate you I know nothing about you
I wonder if you were ever like Susie did you love homemade chocolate chip cookies
did you go to rush concerts did you play jokes on April Fool's Day did you spend time on the computer
oblivious to anything else going on around you Susie is more than a girl on a poster
her mom and Dad Steve and Sandy miss her daily she has dreams and hopes and potential
for my own Survival I have had to let go of anger or I would be consumed by it but the questions
persist the full letter should you wish to read it is available online at Suzanne
lyle.com now of course Suzanne Lyle is still missing to this day this is an old case
but to this day she's still missing she is five foot three inches tall and weighs between 165 and 175 pounds she
has long reddish brown hair and blue eyes she has a brown colored birthmark on her
left calf and a mole on her left cheek beneath her earlobe she has a surgical scar on her left foot Susie wears
eyeglasses or contact lenses she was last seen wearing a long black trench coat blue jeans and a black shirt
she may also have been wearing a polished 14 karat gold fluted bow ring a frog-shaped silver ring and a necklace
with a silver Medallion inscribed with a character that resembles the letter s or
a lightning bolt I do want to point out to the listeners here Captain this is very important as these items have not
been found and there have been other missing persons cases that we have discussed where it these items are just
as important as finding the person themselves so if you've seen these items have them in your possession or have
information about these items this is something you should be passing on to the proper channels
sadly it seems that we may never know what happened to Susie Lyle if either Israel keys or John Reagan got her her
body may never be found sadly her father Doug who spent so many years fighting for his daughter's cause
passed away in 2015 after an illness Mary Lyle continues to work with the center for hope she still has hope that
her daughter will be found but 21 years later it's harder to maintain optimism whenever a body is found Mary waits for
a phone call telling her whether the DNA matches her daughters or not which is on
file another victim we discussed today Donna Palumbo also became an activist for
victims rights in 2007 she founded an organization called Jane Doe no more which Advocates on behalf of victims of
sexual assault Donna was also instrumental in the passage of legislation mandating the removal of the
statute of limitations in Connecticut cases that have DNA evidence [Music] foreign
[Music] garage.com and there you can find all of our recommended reading what's our
recommended reading for this week this week we are recommending the Forest City Killer by Vanessa Brown 50 years ago a
serial killer proud the city of London Ontario who was the Forest City killer is he still alive or was it more than
one person all good reasons to read the force City Killer by Vanessa Brown again
you can find all those at truecrime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't live
thank you [Music]

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Brief Summary

Suzanne Lyle's disappearance is examined alongside potential suspects John Reagan and Israel Keys, focusing on their criminal histories and connections to the case.

Key points

True Crime Garage Introduction. Hosts welcome listeners and introduce the episode.
Beer Review. The hosts review Paradox pilsner, giving it a high rating.
The Disappearance of Karen Wilson. Discussion of Karen Wilson's mysterious disappearance in 1985.
John Reagan's Arrest. John Reagan's history of crime and the shocking details of his actions.
Attempted Kidnapping of Lindsey Ferguson. John Reagan's attempted abduction of a track star raises alarms.
The Arrogance of a Killer. John Regan believed he could get away with his crimes, showing no fear of consequences.

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Episode quotes

It's so easy for us to sit on our computers and link them together.

Discussion about missing persons cases.

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Tension

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