EP 81: Roadside Secrets
On today's episode, Kate and Paul take us to a town outside of Albany, NY in 1959 where a bus driver has spotted the body of a young woman in a ditch on the side of the road. After she is identified by her boyfriend, a look into their relationship and her whereabouts the night of her murder leads us on an interesting journey.
Sources:
“Were traces of a killer buried with Ruth Whitman six decades ago? Colonie police are betting on it.” by Paul Nelson (Times Union) 2022.
#ColdCase13 009: Ruth Whitman, Part 1 (WNYT NewsChannel 13) 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Qjgyd4DVc
#ColdCase13 009: Ruth Whitman, Part 2 (WNYT NewsChannel 13) 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHW5_e0J8wc
#ColdCase13 009: Ruth Whitman, Part 3 (WNYT NewsChannel 13) 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84OiBA80BIQ
“Upstate Unsolved podcast” season two (iHeart radio) 2019.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/418-upstate-unsolved-30563972/
“Ruth Whitman Cold Case” (Cold Case Analysis Center / The College of Saint Rose)
https://coldcase.strose.edu/cases/ruth-whitman-colonie/
“The search for a killer in the summer of 1973” by Tim Blydenburgh and David M. Johnson (Times Union) 2023.
https://www.timesunion.com/projects/2023/robert-garrow-timeline/
“Officials Exhume Body Of Pregnant 1959 Murder Victim Possibly Tied To Notorious Killer” by Jax Miller (Oxygen) 2022.
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/officials-exhume-ruth-whitman-1959-cold-case-murder-victim