221 - The Disappearance of Susan Wolff Cappel
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Nineteen year old Susan Wolff Cappel was in the middle of a divorce and custody battle, but she wasn't going to let that slow her down. After moving back in with her parents she picked up two jobs, started purchasing supplies to take care of her son and had just begun repainting her childhood bedroom for him. Then, she mysteriously vanished.
Just hours after a call from her lawyer that a date had been set for the custody hearing, Sue was elated. She couldn't wait to get her son back into her arms. She left her parents home smiling, heading off to a short shift at work. At approximately 9pm, she exited the store and was met by an older model, light blue car as she was walking toward her own.
After the exchange of a few words, Sue got into the car and has never been seen again. That was more than 41 years ago, on the night of Tuesday, March 16th, 1982. For more than four decades her parents have fought to bring their daughter home. They've been met by disinterest from the media, an abhorrantly handled case by investigators and constant rumors of the horrors their daughter may have experienced.
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| 0:00.0 | Newcomers Town |
| 0:10.6 | A quiet village in central Ohio is a welcoming town home to thousands of families all looking |
| 0:16.6 | to live life to the best that they can. |
| 0:19.4 | For many, it's a beautiful place to raise a family, but for at least one couple, their |
| 0:24.1 | happy little village is simultaneously home to their greatest memories and their most tragic |
| 0:29.4 | experience, the disappearance of their 19-year-old daughter. |
| 0:34.3 | Susan Diane Wolf-Cappell was going through a difficult patch. |
| 0:39.0 | She had separated from her husband and was in the midst of a frustrating child custody |
| 0:43.5 | case. |
| 0:44.8 | Trying to put the pieces back together, she moved home with her parents, picked up two |
| 0:48.7 | jobs, and began setting the foundation for her future and that of her 15-month-old son. |
| 0:55.1 | Then, on a cool and rainy Tuesday night, as she finished up a shift at one of her jobs, |
| 1:00.5 | a blue car pulled up beside her, driven by an unidentified man. |
| 1:05.4 | Moments later, the young mother climbed into the car and has never been seen again. |
| 1:10.1 | While investigators theorized that Susan may have planned to run away, more than four |
| 1:14.9 | decades later, the vast majority believe she was the victim of foul play. |
| 1:19.7 | Rumors abound about who might have been responsible, but the most important question that remains |
| 1:24.9 | is what her family desperately hopes to find. |
| 1:28.4 | Where is Susan? |
| 1:30.5 | This is Trace Evidence, Episode 221, The Disappearance of Susan Wolf-Cappell. |
| 1:42.9 | Welcome to Trace Evidence. |
| 1:44.5 | I'm your host, Stephen Pichecco. |
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