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Morning Cup of Murder

The Ghost of a Victim - June 29 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Check out the new TeePublic shop! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/morning-cup-of-murder?ref_id=35179&utm_campaign=35179&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Morning%2BCup%2Bof%2BMurder June 29th: Mary Jane Reed's Body Found (1948) Sometimes an unsolved case can see so many rumors and theories that it becomes impossible to know what the truth really is. On June 29th 1948 the body of a young girl was found in a case that, with so many rumors and speculation, remains unsolved. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-11-04-0311040053-story.html, https://www.hauntedrockford.com/the-mysterious-deaths-of-stan-skridla-and-mary-jane-reed/, https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2007/12/21/theories-get-new-life-after/48817289007/, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-haunted-stenhouse-20191025-faxy2mlymray5pf7gzbe2jxjdu-story.html, https://abc7chicago.com/stanley-skridla-murder-mary-jane-reed-oregon-cold-case/746916/, https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/mary-jane-reed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:32.7

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:36.1

We have a weird homicide.

0:38.9

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:42.3

A cop of murder...

0:44.3

Sometimes an unsolved case can see so many rumors and theories

0:48.7

that it becomes impossible to know what the truth really is.

0:52.9

On June 29, 1948, the body of a young girl was found in a

0:57.8

case that, with so many rumors and speculation, remains unsolved. So if you like your coffee hot

1:05.7

but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

1:17.6

Stanley Scridla, born May 8th, 1920, was 28 years old in the year 1948.

1:32.5

Having attended school in Rockford, Illinois, upon graduation, Stanley began serving in the U.S. Navy from October of 1943 to December of 1945, was stationed in the Pacific, and saw action on the island of Guam during World War II, before being honorably discharged. Now back on U.S. soil,

1:39.8

Stan, as his friends knew him, began to work at the Illinois Bell Telephone Company as a lineman,

1:46.2

and by 1948, he was living in the Rockford area with his widowed mother, Amelia. It was around this

1:53.9

time that Stan met a young woman named Mary Jane Reed. Mary Jane grew up in the Oregon, Illinois area, where Stanley went for work,

2:03.8

and was raised by her mother and a father who worked at a silica plant in the city. Quite a popular

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