Doe ID: Peggy Joyce Shelton

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Episode 125 Doe ID: Peggy Joyce Shelton

On July 19, 1972, the body of an unidentified woman was found by a young boy in Hernando County, Florida off of State Road 50 and High Corner Road in Brooksville. She had been dead for a few months. It was immediately clear to investigators that she was a murder victim who had been strangled to death. The victim was described as between 30 and 40 years old, approximately 5 feet tall, weighing between 125 and 145 pounds, with short brown hair, and they noted she had only six upper and six lower teeth. Police were searching for a mysterious White 1961-1962 Ford Fairlane that they may be connected to the murder. Police didn't have much else to go one other than the bedspread her body had been concealed in. It was described as a “Pineapple Damask” print, and it had three square corners and a rounded corner. The case went cold and the Jane Doe was buried in a Pauper's grave. Decades later, police felt that they could ID their 1972 Jane Doe using forensic genetic genealogy. They exhumed her body, but was in very poor condtion, and they were worried that they would not be able to extract a DNA profile. After much effort, they were able to obtain a file and finally identified the Jane Doe as Peggy Joyce Shelton. When they looked into Peggy's background, they realized that her husband, Jerry Lee Fletcher, was connected to a motel that used bedspreads like the one Peggy was found in. It turns out that he never reported his wife missing. When police looked at his background, they found evidence of other victims with similar MO, and came to realize that he may have been a serial killer. Fletcher died in prison in 2014. Peggy Joyce Shelton finally has her name back, and this is her story.

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0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The On Wednesday, July 19, 1972, a teenage boy was riding his motorcycle down a deserted road
1:30.3	when it broke down. This was in a heavily wooded area off Cortez Boulevard, State Road 50,
1:36.2	near High Corner Road and bordering with Lucucci State Forest. The sparsely settled area was
1:41.7	three miles west of I-75 in Brooksville, Florida.
1:45.8	Getting off his bike, the teenager found a blanketed bundle lying there in the woods.
1:50.5	Wrapped inside, what appeared to be a patterned bedspread, was the body of a woman.
1:55.1	The motorcycle rider walked back to his house, which was one of just two in the vicinity.
1:59.3	He and his brother-in-law got in their truck
2:00.9	and rode down to the broken-down bike and the body. Then they went back to the house and called
2:05.4	the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded to the scene and recovered the body,
2:11.0	which was in the early stages of decomposition. Once they unwrapped the rest of the blanket the woman
2:15.4	was rolled up in, they could see that she was clad only in a white bra and white bikini underwear.
2:21.1	The medical examiner drew the following conclusions about the deceased.
2:24.9	She was a white woman.
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