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🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were very few clues discovered with the woman's body in the Alaskan wilderness. |
0:07.8 | But the sheet covering her body looked very different from the bedding sold in department stores. |
0:15.1 | Was it possible that the fabric could tell a story, one that could lead police to the woman's killer? |
0:30.0 | When 36-year-old Judy Bergen walked into her favorite bar at the Samovar Inn and Anchorage, |
0:39.2 | Alaska, it was apparent that something was terribly wrong. |
0:44.8 | The bartender who had known Judy for years said that when Judy came in that night, |
0:50.4 | Judy looked as bad as she'd ever seen her. |
0:52.9 | Judy came from an affluent and politically connected family and was something of a free spirit, |
0:59.2 | working as a cook on a fishing boat. |
1:02.4 | But Judy told the bartender that she was tired of life in Alaska and wanted to move away. |
1:09.2 | Judy was upset, distraught. At that time, she had a large amount of money in a ticket to Hawaii and was planning to go to Hawaii. |
1:17.2 | Judy showed her an airline ticket and a substantial sum of money and said she was going to straighten up her life. |
1:24.9 | Later, a man approached Judy at the bar, the two shared some drinks, and witnesses said Judy left with the man and went to his hotel room. |
1:34.2 | Witness indicated that Judy had gone upstairs with that person allegedly possibly to use drugs that day. |
1:44.2 | Later, she returned to the bar, set her goodbyes and left in a cab. |
1:50.2 | Two weeks passed and no one had heard from her, so Judy's family contacted police. |
1:56.2 | She would call and just check in and, hi mom, how are you doing? |
2:02.2 | I knew she was around and I knew that she didn't have anything to complain about at the time. |
2:08.2 | So when the call stopped coming, then I thought something could happen. |
2:13.2 | Police interviewed employees and customers of the Samovar Inn where Judy was last seen. |
2:20.2 | In particular, they wanted to interview the man Judy left with. |
2:25.2 | But no one at the bar knew who the man was. He paid cash for his room, did not register under his real name, and hadn't been in the bar before or since. |
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