Body in the Brandywine

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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After a woman’s body is found floating down the peaceful Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware, she is eventually identified as Susan Ledyard, a brilliant and beloved high school English teacher. At first, her family believes Susan’s death was a tragic accident, then months later her autopsy reveals that she was murdered. Surveillance footage around Susan’s neighborhood shows Susan’s car leaving her home at 3am, the night of her death. But was Susan driving? And what happened between the hours of 3am and 7am when Susan’s Fitbit reported that her heart stopped? Investigators and Susan’s family need answers to this complex mystery. 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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0:34.3	At 7.39am, a worker named Carrie Turnbull on the North East Boulevard bridge had been looking
0:42.1	over the side, and so his attention was there on the river and he saw a body come down the middle
0:49.2	of the river and the body got stuck on the branches of the tree that had been lodged under the bridge.
0:57.6	Carrie Turnbull actually told me that if the tree hadn't been there, he couldn't imagine that
1:03.7	we would have been able to find her that she may have gone out to Delaware Bay. I know that happens
1:09.1	to people that they never find their loved ones and I just can't imagine a worse torture. Brandywine
1:20.4	Creek has always been central to the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Known by locals as the Brandywine
1:26.2	River, its waters originate in nearby Chester County, Pennsylvania, snaking gently through the heart of
1:32.0	Wilmington on the way to the Delaware Bay. But on July 23rd, 2019, the Brandywine became the
1:38.8	scene of a shocking discovery when a dead woman's body was seen floating through downtown Wilmington.
1:45.3	What tragic circumstances could have led to her death? Years later, there was still no answer to that question.
1:51.8	I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Body in the Brandywine.
2:22.4	That morning, City of Wilmington got a 911 call about a body floating in the Brandywine River
2:30.3	and City Police and City Fire Department responded out. Detective Daniel Grosse is a Delaware
2:36.6	State trooper and the lead investigator in this case. Fire Department Fire Department went out.
2:43.2	They pulled the body out of the water, brought it to their fire station on the river. They have a
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