136 - The Murder of Susan Taraskiewicz

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-seven year old Susan Taraskiewicz had been working for Northwest Airlines out of Logan Airport, in Boston, for five years. After suffering through a harsh assortment of sexual harassment and threats of physical violence she managed to do something no woman had before her; she was promoted to the position of Equipment Service Crew Chief. Unfortunately while she was excited by her new position she also began to receive more aggressive harassment and threats.

On the weekend of September 12th and 13th, 1992, Su was working overnight. At approximately 1am on the 13th, she volunteered to go out and pick up lunch for her crew however she would never return. Rather than report her absence, her co-workers clocked her back in and later claimed to be covering for her. Su failed to show up for work for her next shift and on the very morning her parents went to file a missing person's report her body was discovered.

Su had been brutally beaten and stabbed before being stuffed in the trunk of her own car. While police initially considered the crime to be random, a massive investigation targeting a credit card theft ring at the airport soon aroused suspicions that Su could have been killed by someone she worked with who believed she had blown the whistle.

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0:00.0	27-year-old Susan Terrascuits had finally gotten the major promotion she'd been working
0:14.3	towards. An employee of Northwest Airlines, Sue, was the first woman to achieve the
0:19.6	title of Equipment Service Crew Chief. Being a woman in a field dominated by men, she
0:25.4	had dealt with a great deal of harassment over the years, which were slowly becoming
0:29.6	threats. While working the overnight shift from the 12-13th of September 1992, Sue went
0:36.9	out to pick up lunch for her crew. She never returned. No one would report Sue missing
0:42.7	until the morning of the 14th, at almost the same time her body was being discovered.
0:48.6	The investigation into Sue's murder soon revealed that in the months leading up to her
0:52.8	death, federal agencies were looking into a massive credit card theft ring operating
0:57.8	out of the Northwest terminal she worked in.
1:00.8	Was Sue Terrascuits murdered in a random crime, or perhaps was she killed because someone
1:06.2	believed she had blown the whistle on their multi-million dollar scam? This is Trace
1:11.3	evidence, episode 136, the murder of Susan Terrascuits.
1:23.8	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco. Today we examine the disturbing
1:31.1	murder of 27-year-old Sue Terrascuits. Before getting into the case, just a few notes
1:36.9	about the show. Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders
1:42.4	and disappearances. You can follow the show on social media on Twitter at Trace Ev Pod,
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2:04.7	or you can donate via PayPal. Visit Trace-evidence.com for all social media links, donation options,
2:12.0	and contact information. You can submit case suggestions directly through the website or
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