Highway Ambush

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Brittany Stykes and her 14-month-old daughter, Aubree, are on their way to her family’s farm in Ripley, Ohio on August 28, 2013, when someone fires five shots into her vehicle. The 22-year-old mother, who is four-months pregnant, is killed, and Aubree is critically injured. Investigators believe Brittany was targeted, but who would want her dead? 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	That evening we were sitting on the back deck and we were having supper, David and I.
0:12.4	We heard the awfulus sirens and I got the awfulus feeling in my stomach.
0:19.2	The gut in my stomach and I don't pay for this.
0:21.8	Something's not right.
0:24.1	My worst fear in my life was something happening to one of my children.
0:28.9	I've lived that fear.
0:37.6	On the evening of August 28th, 2013, 22-year-old Brittany Stikes has just left her mother-in-law's
0:44.2	house with her 14-month-old daughter, Aubrey, and is driving through the wide rural landscapes
0:49.4	of Bethel, Ohio.
0:51.1	She plans to stop at her home to drop off a plate of food for her husband, Shane, then head
0:55.6	over to her parents' house to celebrate her father's birthday.
0:59.3	But Brittany never arrives and her parents, Mary and David Dodson, fear the worst when
1:05.3	they hear a chorus of sirens just a few miles away.
1:18.6	I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Highway Ambusch.
1:26.3	On August 28th, 2013, while Mary and David Dodson prepared for their family get together,
1:40.7	someone ambushed their daughter Brittany and their granddaughter on the nearby highway.
1:45.1	Her headlight shining off the side of the road caught the attention of a passing driver.
1:51.0	The gentleman at founder, he seemed to jeep down in the weeds and he drove by it.
1:56.8	At first he thought it was just someone for a while and playing.
1:59.9	And he said, when he come back, he noticed the jeep was still sitting in the same place
2:04.3	and he told his wife, he said, well we got to check on him.
2:08.2	Her jeep had went off the road.
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