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Trace Evidence

232 - The Murder of Little Christmas Doe

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday, December 21st, 1988, a timber truck driver making his way through rural Georgia made a horrifying discovery. Just off US Route 82, down at the end of a long dirt road, in a dusty turn out which doubled as an illegal dumping ground, he found the remains of an unidentified toddler wedged inside of an old television console.

Investigators would later reveal that the child, described as a young black girl, was estimated to be between the ages of 3 and 4 and had likely been dead for thirty to sixty days. Whoever had dumped her in that spot had first wrapped her in a blanket, placed her inside of a duffel bag, filled that bag with concrete, and then put it inside of a metal foot locker which was also filled with concrete. It was a scene so bizarre, so disturbing, it continues to haunt the investigators who worked it.

Despite their sincerest efforts, the case grew cold and the child's true identity remained illusive. Twenty-one years later, in 2009, an anonymous tipster claimed that the child might have been named Bridget, could have been from the city of Albany and might have family living in Tifton. All these years later and both little Christmas Doe's identity and that of her killer remain unknown.

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Transcript

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See website for terms. 4 days before Christmas 1988, a truck driver passing through Ware County, Georgia

0:45.3

would make a grisly discovery so disturbing that more than 30 years later, investigators,

0:51.6

locals, and reporters remain haunted by it.

0:55.0

It happened at the end of a dirt road, in the middle of a woods at an illegal dumping site

1:00.0

where the local community went to get rid of their trash.

1:04.0

For one person though, they had something much more sinister in mind.

1:09.0

The decomposing remains of an unidentified child were found under circumstances nearly as mistaken. The

1:14.4

using remains of an unidentified child were found under circumstances nearly as mysterious as they are tragic.

1:17.3

The truck driver, stopping off to relieve himself, stumbled upon an old television console.

1:24.0

Inside, he found a black metal foot locker wrapped in duct tape and sealed in plastic.

1:30.0

The locker had been sealed shut with concrete, but the hand of a child stuck out from the twisted mass.

1:38.0

Investigators would find the body of an unidentified black child estimated to have been between the ages of three and four.

1:46.1

Detectives were struck by the sheer heinous nature of the crime, but also by the

1:50.8

contradictions of the scene.

1:52.8

The child didn't appear to have been abused or neglected.

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