Black Friday

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

The day after Thanksgiving 1999, in the quiet town of Lansing, Illinois, 44-year-old Sharon Miller is found dead at the dry cleaners where she works after what appears to be a robbery. But investigators soon realize the robbery was likely staged and Sharon was targeted for execution. Many suspects emerge but investigators are still searching for a motive and the killer. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My dad did say that she had been acting strange for the past two weeks.
0:09.2	Something was off with her.
0:12.7	It makes me think there was something really wrong going on.
0:17.4	Because I feel she knew something bad about someone whether it would ruin reputation or
0:23.5	money, she knew something that someone didn't want to get out.
0:29.5	It's early in the morning, the Friday after Thanksgiving, 1999 in Lansing, Illinois.
0:42.5	44-year-old Sharon Miller arrives at a local dry cleaners where she's worked for several
0:47.5	years.
0:48.9	Sharon talks on the phone for about 20 minutes with an employee at another dry cleaners in
0:53.0	neighboring Indiana until she has to hang up.
0:56.1	Her first customer of the day has just arrived.
0:58.9	A short time later, a frantic 911 call comes into the Lansing Police Department.
1:04.5	A body's been found at the dry cleaners, sprawled on the bathroom floor.
1:09.0	It's Sharon, and she's been shot execution-style with two bullets at close range.
1:15.3	I'm Steve French, and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Black Friday.
1:38.2	Lansing, Illinois, a small town of just under 30,000 people, is located about a half-hour
1:43.5	south of Chicago.
1:46.1	We average for many, many years, one homicide a year.
1:49.1	We're probably around three or four right now at this time.
1:53.9	Chuck Weeden is a sergeant with the Lansing Police.
1:57.0	Back in 1999, he was a rookie detective and vividly remembers the homicide case that would
2:02.5	haunt the department for nearly a quarter century.
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