March 16, 2022 • 50 mins
Unbeknownst to her parents, Sandy Beal was secretly dating a married state trooper at the time of her death. The letter she left him in her car leaves her family with more questions than answers.
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care while listening. There are things I know about Sandy
that I only know because she wrote them down herself
more than four decades ago. She was a planner, a
checkbook balancer, and the type of teen who kept detailed
notes about her life. Among the things that Kim, her cousin,
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gave me to look through is a date book that
Sandy used to track the laws last two years of
her life nineteen seventy six. In nineteen seventy seven, on
the front of the date book is a picturesque winter scene,
and on the inside of the cover is a poem.
The final lines read, as you close your eyes in slumber,
do you think that God will say you have earned
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one more tomorrow by the work you did today. The
first entry in Sandy's calendar is in March of nineteen
seventy six, when Sandy was still a senior in high school.
Her entries are sparse in the beginning, but by August
the pages are filled with her soft cursive handwriting. August,
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I think, is when Sandy met her boyfriend. She wrote
in her calendar, met Doug the fourth went out the eleventh,
and the twenty third he got his new police car.
He was twenty eight to her eighteen years of age.
She marked down his birthday in both years of her calendar,
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but she wouldn't live long enough to see him turn
twenty nine. Doug had been married for a few years
by the time he met Sandy. In her calendar, Sandy
marked down the days they met together, as well as
his absences, like when he was going to be out
of town hunting. She described him as six foot one
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hundred and sixty five pounds, blue eyes, and brown hair.
There's a photo she kept where he's wearing his Maryland
State Trooper uniform. He's holding his car door open, parked
in front of a McDonald's. The picture is blurry, but
he's smiling and making eye contact with someone out of frame.
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By December of nineteen seventy six, the tone of Sandy's
calendar changed, went to doctor, she wrote, and then the
next week set aside money. By January, numbers start appearing
sixty days, eighty days. Sandy drew a square around the
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date January thirteenth and wrote, eight, am, I'd seen that
date before. It's on a receipt from the Women's Medical
Center of Washington, DC that was found in her purse
on the morning of her death. The receipt was for
one hundred and twenty five dollars and seventy cents. The
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payment was for an abortion. I think the running tab
of numbers in her calendar was her attempt to estimate
how far along in her pregnancy she was. The following week,
she scrawled forget it in capital letters across one of
the pages of her calendar. Within a month of having
the abortion, she was dead. From iHeartRadio, I'm Melissa Jelson,
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and this is what happened to Sandy Beale an iHeart
original podcast, Chapter two, Dear Doug. After a couple of days,
when I tried to get my mind together, I called
the doctor. He said, I cannot give you any answers,
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And I said, doctor Boyle, I said she's dead. I said,
she's gone. Can't you give me the answers that I
need to have? And what did he tell me? He
told me that she had come to him, that she
had had the abortion, that she was bleeding. This was
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all new information to Joanne. Sandy had kept her pregnancy
and her abortion a secret from her family. Her mom
learned about this for the first time at the police
precinct after Sandy's death, But Sandy did confide in someone
her family, physician, doctor Boyle. She went to him in
December when she would have been a few months pregnant,
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and then again after the abortion. Sandy was experiencing some
residual bleeding and wanted to make sure she was okay,
and he said, I want you to go into the
hospital and I will take care of you. She didn't
want to. She was scared too because she would have
to tell us. She would have you know, everybody would
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have known, and she was embarrassed. I've thought a lot
about how stressful this unexpected pregnancy must have been for Sandy.
She was already in a hidden relationship with a married
police officer. If they were discovered, it could be catastrophic. Now,
at eighteen, she believed she was pregnant with his child.
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Sandy was living with secrets upon secrets upon secrets. We
don't know how Sandy came to the decision to have
an abortion, or how long she considered her options, or
if she was influenced by anyone else, but ultimately she
ended up at a clinic in downtown DC. When I
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first learned about this, I had so many questions. What
would it have been like to terminate a pregnancy in
nineteen seventy seven, only four years after Roe v. Wade
made access to abortion at constitutional right. How did Sandy
pay for it? How did she get home? A lot
of these answers are lost to time, and the Women's
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Medical Center of DC is closed now. But I was
able to track down a former employee who worked at
the clinic at the time Sandy would have visited. That's
how I met Kathy. I will share my story. When
I was seventeen, I was abducted and assaulted and helped
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for a number of days. Was horrific. Well. I was
abducted midday from a city street in blue jeans and
a peacoat, so straight up abduction assault it was not questionable.
I am well aware that police do not always do
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the detective work they should be doing, because they sure didn't.
Kathy was abducted and raped in Saint Louis in nineteen
sixty nine. She was able to escape, but it was
understandably a life altering experience, and my grandmother, who was
completely uneducated, but escaped from the Warsaw ghetto, and she said,
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in a very dear Eastern European voice, darling, you have
a choice. You can hide, you can get very sad,
or you can speak your truth and teach something about this.
Those words stayed with me a very long time. There
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with me still. Kathy chose to speak her truth. She
became an activist involved in the women's reproductive rights movement.
She received her PhD in counseling and in the mid
nineteen seventies began working at the Women's Medical Center of DC.
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She started as a mental health counselor working with patients
and later became the director of the counseling center there.
So we were in a large office building, was very spacious,
It was very comfortable. One could come in for birth
control counseling, or abortion counseling, or crisis counseling, incess counseling
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wide array. Kathy reminded me that this was all pre
internet and pre cell phones. She said, Sandy likely would
have heard of the clinic through word of mouth or
been referred by her doctor. It was also before at
home pregnancy tests became widely available in the US, so
to confirm that she was pregnant. Sandy would have had
to have visited a doctor. If it was determined she
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was pregnant and she was in a reasonable time frame
for our work, she would be sent to a counseling room,
where she'd meet with a counselor who would have asked many,
many questions to see if this sounded okay, like someone
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who had thought this through. Was likely as best as
we could determine to handle the procedure and aftermath. After
speaking with Kathy, I was left with the impression that
Sandy could have received really good care at Women's Medical Center.
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She would have been evaluated by counselors before the abortion,
and they would have followed up with her afterwards to
make sure she was doing okay. If any us had
any ink plane that this would be extremely dysregulating, emotionally,
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extremely destabilizing, she wouldn't have had the abortion at Women's
Medical Say. I told Kathy about Sandy's story to get
her take. Sandy died just one month after her abortion.
I wanted to know had Kathy ever heard of any
of the clinic's patients dying by suicide. I wondered if
it might have gotten back to them. I can't remember
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had an abortion provided a motive for Doug. Sandy was
a complication in his life. The Bills didn't necessarily imagine
that Doug had an elaborate plan to get rid of Sandy. Instead,
they thought that maybe there had been an altercation of
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Sandy had been in a secretive relationship with a married man.
She'd gotten pregnant and had an abortion, and then ended
up dead one mile away from her boyfriend's place of work,
and found with her body was a letter she'd made
out specifically to him. I'm going to read it now.
Keep in mind this is all coming from her perspective,
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and we don't know if everything in it is true,
but it gives us a great deal of insight. Into
how she felt around the time she died. Doug, I
know now it's over, and it has been all along.
I guess I'm going crazy and nobody can see it.
You know you're right. I am trouble. I lost my baby.
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I wanted so much. I thought it would bring some
kind of love because I was looking for love and
never found it from you. But you didn't care. You
never came when I was sick. I only wish I
could start all over again. Then you wouldn't have used
me like you did. You didn't care, and I guess
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you never will. I never want another man to ever
want me. I just want to leave and forget the pain.
You see, I'll have to one day pay for the
loss of my baby, and when that day comes, Douglas
will pay for what he did to me and his baby.
I love you, and I'm sorry for all of this
I've caused you. So this letter was interpreted by police
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as a suicide. No, right, what do you see in
this letter? She wasn't committing suicide. I just don't believe it.
That's Sandy's cousin, Kim. Did you believe she wanted to
get away from it and she was going to have
to go through a grieving process. I see that she
was in a lot of pain, and she was a kid.
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She's about to be nineteen, and she sees the way
the world is, and she's recognizing that she loved him
and she couldn't have any more than that. But at
the same time, this is where her fire comes out,
and I just want to leave and forget all the pain.
How do you hear that one? Now? That's when she
wanted to go to Maine. In the last few months
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of Sandy's life, she had started talking about moving. She
wrote to her grandmother in Maine and asked if she
could live with her. These plans are a major reason
why the Beale family so vehemently rejected the theory of suicide.
Sandy was hopeful about the future. Here's her mom, Joanne.
She wouldn't have gone to the lengths of calling her
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grandmother and talking with her. And she loved a grandmother, Bille.
She didn't like my mother. She liked her grandmother Belle.
And that's why I don't think she committed the suicide.
When I first read Sandy's letter, it didn't seem to
me like a suicide note. Instead, I recognized it as
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a certain type of writing specific to teenage girls who'd
had their hearts broken for the very first time, girls
who learned too early. How men could you use and
take advantage of them, take their hearts and bodies and time,
and then just discard them like trash. I recognize the
letter because I'd written ones just like it. The note
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could be interpreted many ways, though, depending on the lens
you read it through heartbroken teen or as the cops
read it, girl on the brink of suicide. If she
hadn't written that damn note to shiphead, I wish she
had a mail lass on up a bitch instead of
leaving it in the guy Joanne the leaves. The police
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closed the case so quickly because of the letter Sandy
wrote to Doug. Without it, she thinks Sandy's death would
have been investigated as a murder, and that those closest
to her, including her boyfriend Doug, would have faced questioning.
If you was going with a girl and you got
her pregnant and you was married, and you told her
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to go get in an abortion and she did, and
then she still was hanging on to you, what do
you think you would do? You're twenty eight years old,
you got a nice career with the state police, and
you've gotten a girl pregnant. If Doug was responsible, the
Beils believe that he would be uniquely adept at covering
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up the crime due to his training as a law
enforcement officer. Here's Kim again. He's in the ideal situation.
He's in the position of authority. He has the skill set,
he has the trust within his department. They're going to
believe him over us, so he's going to be able
to cover up. He just has all the resources available
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to him. Kim's suspicions of Doug kind of makes sense
given her line of work. She's a therapist for domestic
violence victims and as a result, all too familiar with
the ways that men harm the women they claim to love.
Passion to help survivors, and her desire to solve Sandy's
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case a sort of interwoven at this stage, feeding off
of each other, and honestly, it's really impressive just how
much energy she continues to commit to Sandy. For the
last year, we've texted almost every single day to compare
notes and talk about the case. And you have to
remember she's been working on this for decades now. Her
efforts over the years to track down documents and navigate
(22:26):
the maze of state agencies and local police, it's herculean.
I'm kind of like gum on people's shoes, and I
ask a lot of questions. Tenacious, that's the word that
I've been told before, and it's really stubbornness. And the
people that I had to keep trying to reach over
and over again were the law enforcement that they were
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really just trying to cover their ass and be cautious
about what they gave me and what they did. Kim
had been researching Sandy's case in some form or another
since ninety seventy seven, but the investigation took on a
new urgency in two thousand and six after Kim traveled
to Maine to see Sandy's parents. Ronald, Sandy's dad, was
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nearing the end of his life, and as Kim talked
to him, she learned that he was still preoccupied with
what happened to Sandy and all the unanswered questions around
her death. I hate that Ronnie died not knowing. Just
it's just not fair that he would go to his
grave and not know. That's just not fair. We need
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to get those answers, and I don't want Joanne to
leave this earth and not have him too. She was
overcome with a deep sense of injustice. She told me,
oh my gosh, you know, there's not enough time to
get to find out these answers and we know nothing,
and it's oh six, that's a lot of time, that's what.
Twenty nine years later, Kim decided to track down the
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official police report on Sandy's death, thinking it would be
simple to get not so. She started by calling the
Prince George's County Police Department, where she was connected to
a detective in the cold case unit, Bernie Nelson. He
quickly referred her to someone else, another detective who had
a strange story to share. He started huh hoh, humming along,
(24:19):
and you know, I'm not sure. That's a long time ago.
I don't think I can get those records. And so
probably three or four calls and then he told me, well,
the building's burned down. I'm like what, So he said, well,
probably the only thing I'm going to be able to
get as a tickler file. Well, I've been in marketing before.
I know that it's just an index card and it's
(24:42):
jumped from one month to another to follow up on people.
I'm like, I don't care what you have. Just get
me what you have. Okay, I'll work on it. Well,
that was the last communication I had with him, because
he would never return my calls anymore. So I gave
up on the police report. Actually, instead, she focused on
getting Sandy's autop which she eventually was able to acquire.
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It added one very important detail, Sandy had sperm inside
her body, suggesting that she'd recently had sex. Though it's
hard to know exactly when I think what happened, and
maybe I'm wrong. I think that he met her, they
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had sex, and she probably was thinking, well, I've had
the abortion. Everything's fine, We're gonna stick together. And I
think he said, no, I'm going back to my wife.
The family had already believed Sandy wasn't alone in the
pole yard that night. Maybe the letter to Doug was
supposed to have been given to him in person. Fast
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forward to twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen, and it wasn't
till my niece introduced me to her new boyfriend, and
he was a Prince George's county cop. And I said
that I've been looking for this police report for tech kids,
and they set the building burned down, and he goes,
the building never burnt down. I'm work out of it,
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and it's about a seventy five year old building. That
building never burnt down, And so that got my you know,
blood boiling. So Kim picked up the phone once again
and dialed the PG County Police. This time though, she
connected with a sympathetic clerk who passed her request along
to cold case Detective Bernie Nelson, the same detective she
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first spoke to in two thousand and six. All of
a sudden, I got that email stating Bernie Nelson has
found the police report. He didn't tell me where he
found it, he just said he found it and that
here it is attached. I was like, oh my gosh.
I like was nervous, and I was driving as fast
as I could to get to my computer so I
could can print it out because I thought it was
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just going to go away, and I couldn't believe that
it was twelve pages, which was just amazing. But because
they assured me that there was there was no way
that this was going to be available. The entire time
that Kim had been looking for it. The police file
had been safe and sound in the home of the
cop who investigated the case in nineteen seventy seven, retired
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detective at Shishlski. When he left the force, he took
his files home with him. In twenty nineteen, a full
thirteen years after Kim's initial request, cold case detective Bernie
Nelson went to Shishelski's house and physically retrieved the file
from his boxes of papers. And even Bernie said, I
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don't even know why he saved it, but for whatever reason,
he saved it and they found it in his house.
Bernie went up with him and went through the boxes
to get this report for me. But they probably wanted
me off their butt. And I said that when I emailed,
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a seventeen page digital file filled with details about what
detectives found when they arrived on the scene. Sandy was
sitting on a gold blanket in the driver's seat, Her
white coat sat on the seat next to her, and
on top of it was a gun, a three point
fifty seven Ruger revolver. The police report also includes a
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series of photocopies. There's a copy of the letter Sandy
wrote to Doug, along with what looks like a rough
draft and an envelope addressed to his work. The last
page of the report is another photocopy of something that
was found in her car, but it's really blurry, so
I can't read what's on it. All I can make
out are a few faint lines of Sandy's handwriting. For months,
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I assumed it was another note Sandy had written, the
contents lost to time. But then one day I found
the original in the stack of documents that Kim gave me.
Turns out it's not a letter, it's a photograph. The
police report only includes a copy of the back, but
what's on the front is far more revealing. It's Sandy's
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photograph of Doug standing in front of the McDonald's in
his state trooper uniform. I don't buy any of that shirt.
There was a lot of things that they said and
did that I didn't that I argued with him about.
But they looked at us, I think, as well than
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nobody that low class. According to the police report, there
were empty pill bottles in Sandy's car and loose pills
scattered on her seat. Although this description might give the
impression that Sandy was trying to overdose, the autopsy did
not find any drugs or alcohol in her system at
the time of her death. It just looks staged to me, like, oh,
(33:29):
we found pills underneath her legs, well, there were allergy pills,
and so they made it look like she committed suicide.
That I don't think they did a thorough investigation. They
didn't do their due diligence. I don't think they investigated anything.
It was more than forty years after Sandy's death before
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her family would get a copy of the police report
and be able to read it. They had hoped that
there would be some kind of incontrovertible proof in the
report that could say mettle their questions. The family felt
that with more information that have a clearer picture of
how and why Sandy died, but the new information just
muddled the story. The police report provided a detailed account
(34:14):
of this scene and reminded the family of the cardboard
shoved under the wheels of her car and the tire
tracks that seemed to indicate she was trying to get
her car out of the mud. The report also noted
that the gun had been collected and dusted for prints,
it had none. If Sandy had used the gun on herself,
wouldn't they find her prints? And crucially, why was there
(34:38):
no mention of Doug in the written police report, even
though his name, his work address, and a photo of
him were found in her car. Certainly they as far
as we know, they didn't investigate Doud because there's no
mention of that in the police report either. Here's Sandy's brother, Stephen. Well, well,
I'll say, is if she committed suicide, somebody is going
(35:01):
to have to do some hallacious proven to me. Yeah,
some hallecious proven to me. That's what they say, fucking
prove it. Hello? Hi? Is this said? Hello? Hi? It's Melissa.
(35:25):
Can you hear me? Okay? That's retired Detective Ed Shazelski.
He's the one who wrote the police report and investigated
Sandy's death all those years ago, the one who stored
the police report at his house. I tracked him down
on Facebook. He was somewhat surprised to learn Sandy's family
was still uncertain about the events surrounding her death. He
(35:46):
was willing to answer their questions and mine in order
to put the issue to rest. It's the time that
I wrote homicide. It was kind of a sort after job,
the prestige. I'm a homicide dick, do you know what
I mean? But let me tell you, it had to
be the worst job or the police department. We were
handling well over one hundred murders a year. I mean
(36:11):
they put us like bounds. Kishlski speaks with the brash
confidence of a lifelong police officer, and he's an experienced storyteller.
A few years ago, he wrote a novel that touches
on his time working homicide called In Cheap's Clothing. The
book is dedicated to the quote finest group of police
(36:32):
officers found anywhere, the past and present members of the
Prince George's County Police Department. So I got the car,
I was in my office and force whatever, which is
only a few wiles away from where her body was.
Arriving on scene, he recalled what he noticed, a young
woman slumped over in a car seat alone, with a
(36:54):
gun close to her right hand. Her hands were coated
in gunpowder, which indicates to Shozhelski that her hands were
on or very close to the gun when it was fired.
Upon further inspection, he saw that the gunshot in her
abdomen was a contact wound, meaning that the gun had
been touching her body when it fired. She have made up,
(37:17):
you know, like she'd think she was going to get
an answer there should make up very attractive. I asked
Shashlski what he made of some of the more unusual
details of Sandy's case, like the location of the gunshot.
He told me something a lot of people have said
to me as I've reported this story, that women, especially
(37:40):
young attractive women, don't like to shoot themselves in the
face because of vanity. I tried to fact check this claim,
and there's not much research. But I did track down
one study from twenty eleven that found that men were
almost twice as likely as women to use a method
of suicide that disfigured their head or face. But researchers
(38:01):
dismissed the theory that women were driven by vanity, calling
it an empirically unsupported explanation that characterizes the suicidal behavior
of women as motivated by selfish or trivial concerns. While
Shazelsky had a fairly good memory of Sandy's case, he
didn't remember one of the details that the family latched
(38:23):
onto the cardboard under Sandy's tires. He insisted that I
was mistaken until I showed him his own police report,
where he noted it this detail. It doesn't fit neatly
into the police narrative of suicide. If Sandy went to
the poliard to end her life, why did it seem
like she was trying repeatedly to leave. You don't wear
(38:45):
anything now, So I said, you don't want to be
time version. You want to go in there with an
opened mine, suicide, natural or whatever. But I mean, I
got a gun on a trust scene in a backse to.
It was it's not a natural fingo, I can eliminate that.
(39:06):
It's not an accident. Ingo, I can eliminate that. So
pretty much what left as a homicide or suicide. And
then there was the letter to Doug what I interpreted
as a suicide. Yes, yes, I mean, but again it
doesn't say goodbye a creer world either. Sin to me
(39:31):
like she's kind of talking to God a little bit.
She's rejected. There's nothing to live for. She lost her baby,
she's lost her lover. She probably told her thousands of
times he's going to leave his wife, you know what
I mean. She didn't get that. She loses her baby,
(39:51):
What is there to live for? That's what I can
see in that letter. I could think of a lot
of reasons Sandy had to live. She was eighteen years
old to start, she had family, a job, friends, ambitions.
I have no doubt that Sandy was despondent over what
(40:13):
sounds like the breakup of her very first love, but
the jump to having nothing to live for seemed quite far,
and I wondered if these intimate details about Sandy's personal life,
which were on display in her writings, colored the police's
interpretation of her death. What if there had been no letter,
(40:34):
what if there was no receipt from the clinic. Back then,
much like now, there were a lot of myths around abortion.
One is that women who obtain them are more likely
to be depressed or suicidal afterwards. We now know this
to be untrue. The most comprehensive research project on the
effects of unintended pregnancy on women's lives, called the Turnaway Study,
(40:57):
has found that abortion does not increase the risk of
having suicidal thoughts or the chance of developing depression or anxiety.
In fact, women who are able to get an abortion
when they want one are more likely to have a
positive outlook on the future. It hit me as a
suicide right after bat I did what I was supposed
to do, and it is it was a suicide. I'm
(41:19):
not even going to say, in my opinion, it was
a suicide. It was a suicide. Period. Not so simple maybe,
but it was a suicide. I don't think any suicide
is simple. But Sandy's case did have an added layer
of complication for police the fact that her boyfriend was
(41:40):
a state trooper. Doug's name was all over the scene.
The autopsy revealed that Sandy had sex before her death.
I thought her boyfriend would be high on the list
of people to interview, and in fact, it's standard procedure
in cases like this. The Department of Justice recommends that
death investigators should try to quote document when, where, how,
(42:03):
and by whom the decedent was last known to be alive.
I asked Detective Shozelski if he ever considered Doug a
person of interest, or if he thought to speak to
him to learn more about Sandy's mental health or to
help recreate the last forty eight hours of her life.
Not as fair as I was concern he was not
a suspect than anything. Shozelski told me that he didn't
(42:26):
have any qualms going after a fellow officer if it
was warranted. It's worth noting that Shozelski didn't know Doug.
State and County Police are different entities and operate independently,
and while Shozelski didn't interview Doug, he did do something.
He notified the State Police that the trooper may have
had an inappropriate relationship with an eighteen year old girl.
(42:48):
I filed a public information request with the Maryland State
Police to see if I could find records of an
internal investigation into Doug after Sandy was found dead, but
I was too late. Internal affairs records are maintained for
only thirty years. There was no vacation of anything in
that car than a suicide. Again, the busies constant resident
(43:11):
on her no signs are a stare. Her father's gun
is the biggest one. So I'm not going to drag
somebody over to Carr's another police officer or everyday guy
with person. Detective Shozelski didn't think it was worth talking
to Doug, but I did. Since I began this podcast,
(43:34):
I've tried repeatedly to make contact with him, sending him
emails and messages on LinkedIn. I've also mailed handwritten letters
to his home, and in one I included a photo
of Sandy. To this day, I've yet to speak with him. Doug.
If you're listening, I still want to talk. Over the years,
(43:57):
Doug has turned into somewhat of a mythic figure for
the Beial family. He's an enigma, a mystery man who
played a pivotal role in Sandy's life and then just disappeared.
After Sandy's death, Joanne tried to track him down. She
told me that she called the Maryland State Police in
hopes of speaking with him. Well, when I called the
(44:20):
State Police barracks, the man was not very friendly. He said, well,
you don't have to worry about that man. He's been transferred. Well,
he's been wanting to go to Baltimore for a long time.
We finally got an opening and we sent him along.
And I'm thinking, yeah, right, so, uh, I didn't get
(44:44):
anywhere with a state place. Maryland State Police informed Joanne
the dog had been transferred. I wasn't able to verify
this with the state Police. However, they did confirm that
he was assigned to a barracks in the Baltimore area
by nineteen eighty five. To get that cop transferred right away,
(45:05):
they covered everything up. I thought. I thought At the time,
I thought they're just telling me that shit because they
know and I still think that up until now. I've
held back a single detail in Sandy's case. I wanted
(45:26):
you to get to know Sandy in the way her
family knew her as a daughter, a sister, and as
a civilian. But one of the major reasons why I
held onto Joanne's letter for so many years was because
Sandy wasn't just a regular teenage girl who worked at
the mall. Sandy she wanted to be a cop, and
(45:47):
not just in some idle daydreaming kind of way. In
the last year of her life, she was training to
become a police officer, going on ride alongs with PG
County Police and even taking the written test for the academy.
So Sandy wasn't a stranger to PG County Police. She
was actively trying to become one of them. Well, I'm
old enough and worked in organizations long enough to know
(46:10):
that you're going to want to protect the people that
you work with or the reputation of the agency. Sandra
could have been retired by now, she's doing life six
feet under ground. So I give a shit about these people.
I hope they were not now. Well, it's just you know,
there was dirty cops back then, just like this dirty
(46:33):
cops now. You just never know where they're at and
who they are, you know. On our next episode, we
learn more about Sandy's goal to become a police officer. Yeah,
I know, she really talked about wanting to become a cop.
At first, I was a little surprised, like really, yeah,
(46:56):
So she was talking about these ride alongs and how
she enjoyed them. That's what I do. Recall she's saying, yeah, Jesus, guys,
get away with shit. You know. I'm Melissa Jelson and
this is what happened to Sandy Beal. What Happened to
(47:16):
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notes about her life. Among the things that Kim, her cousin,
(02:56):
gave me to look through is a date book that
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The final lines read, as you close your eyes in slumber,
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(03:18):
one more tomorrow by the work you did today. The
first entry in Sandy's calendar is in March of nineteen
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Her entries are sparse in the beginning, but by August
the pages are filled with her soft cursive handwriting. August,
(03:40):
I think, is when Sandy met her boyfriend. She wrote
in her calendar, met Doug the fourth went out the eleventh,
and the twenty third he got his new police car.
He was twenty eight to her eighteen years of age.
She marked down his birthday in both years of her calendar,
(04:00):
but she wouldn't live long enough to see him turn
twenty nine. Doug had been married for a few years
by the time he met Sandy. In her calendar, Sandy
marked down the days they met together, as well as
his absences, like when he was going to be out
of town hunting. She described him as six foot one
(04:21):
hundred and sixty five pounds, blue eyes, and brown hair.
There's a photo she kept where he's wearing his Maryland
State Trooper uniform. He's holding his car door open, parked
in front of a McDonald's. The picture is blurry, but
he's smiling and making eye contact with someone out of frame.
(04:44):
By December of nineteen seventy six, the tone of Sandy's
calendar changed, went to doctor, she wrote, and then the
next week set aside money. By January, numbers start appearing
sixty days, eighty days. Sandy drew a square around the
(05:05):
date January thirteenth and wrote, eight, am, I'd seen that
date before. It's on a receipt from the Women's Medical
Center of Washington, DC that was found in her purse
on the morning of her death. The receipt was for
one hundred and twenty five dollars and seventy cents. The
(05:26):
payment was for an abortion. I think the running tab
of numbers in her calendar was her attempt to estimate
how far along in her pregnancy she was. The following week,
she scrawled forget it in capital letters across one of
the pages of her calendar. Within a month of having
the abortion, she was dead. From iHeartRadio, I'm Melissa Jelson,
(05:53):
and this is what happened to Sandy Beale an iHeart
original podcast, Chapter two, Dear Doug. After a couple of days,
when I tried to get my mind together, I called
the doctor. He said, I cannot give you any answers,
(06:17):
And I said, doctor Boyle, I said she's dead. I said,
she's gone. Can't you give me the answers that I
need to have? And what did he tell me? He
told me that she had come to him, that she
had had the abortion, that she was bleeding. This was
(06:38):
all new information to Joanne. Sandy had kept her pregnancy
and her abortion a secret from her family. Her mom
learned about this for the first time at the police
precinct after Sandy's death, But Sandy did confide in someone
her family, physician, doctor Boyle. She went to him in
December when she would have been a few months pregnant,
(07:00):
and then again after the abortion. Sandy was experiencing some
residual bleeding and wanted to make sure she was okay,
and he said, I want you to go into the
hospital and I will take care of you. She didn't
want to. She was scared too because she would have
to tell us. She would have you know, everybody would
(07:20):
have known, and she was embarrassed. I've thought a lot
about how stressful this unexpected pregnancy must have been for Sandy.
She was already in a hidden relationship with a married
police officer. If they were discovered, it could be catastrophic. Now,
at eighteen, she believed she was pregnant with his child.
(07:43):
Sandy was living with secrets upon secrets upon secrets. We
don't know how Sandy came to the decision to have
an abortion, or how long she considered her options, or
if she was influenced by anyone else, but ultimately she
ended up at a clinic in downtown DC. When I
(08:05):
first learned about this, I had so many questions. What
would it have been like to terminate a pregnancy in
nineteen seventy seven, only four years after Roe v. Wade
made access to abortion at constitutional right. How did Sandy
pay for it? How did she get home? A lot
of these answers are lost to time, and the Women's
(08:26):
Medical Center of DC is closed now. But I was
able to track down a former employee who worked at
the clinic at the time Sandy would have visited. That's
how I met Kathy. I will share my story. When
I was seventeen, I was abducted and assaulted and helped
(08:47):
for a number of days. Was horrific. Well. I was
abducted midday from a city street in blue jeans and
a peacoat, so straight up abduction assault it was not questionable.
I am well aware that police do not always do
(09:07):
the detective work they should be doing, because they sure didn't.
Kathy was abducted and raped in Saint Louis in nineteen
sixty nine. She was able to escape, but it was
understandably a life altering experience, and my grandmother, who was
completely uneducated, but escaped from the Warsaw ghetto, and she said,
(09:30):
in a very dear Eastern European voice, darling, you have
a choice. You can hide, you can get very sad,
or you can speak your truth and teach something about this.
Those words stayed with me a very long time. There
(09:56):
with me still. Kathy chose to speak her truth. She
became an activist involved in the women's reproductive rights movement.
She received her PhD in counseling and in the mid
nineteen seventies began working at the Women's Medical Center of DC.
(10:17):
She started as a mental health counselor working with patients
and later became the director of the counseling center there.
So we were in a large office building, was very spacious,
It was very comfortable. One could come in for birth
control counseling, or abortion counseling, or crisis counseling, incess counseling
(10:42):
wide array. Kathy reminded me that this was all pre
internet and pre cell phones. She said, Sandy likely would
have heard of the clinic through word of mouth or
been referred by her doctor. It was also before at
home pregnancy tests became widely available in the US, so
to confirm that she was pregnant. Sandy would have had
to have visited a doctor. If it was determined she
(11:05):
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(11:26):
who had thought this through. Was likely as best as
we could determine to handle the procedure and aftermath. After
speaking with Kathy, I was left with the impression that
Sandy could have received really good care at Women's Medical Center.
(11:47):
She would have been evaluated by counselors before the abortion,
and they would have followed up with her afterwards to
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any ink plane that this would be extremely dysregulating, emotionally,
(12:08):
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Medical Say. I told Kathy about Sandy's story to get
her take. Sandy died just one month after her abortion.
I wanted to know had Kathy ever heard of any
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it might have gotten back to them. I can't remember
(12:32):
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had an abortion provided a motive for Doug. Sandy was
a complication in his life. The Bills didn't necessarily imagine
that Doug had an elaborate plan to get rid of Sandy. Instead,
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Sandy had been in a secretive relationship with a married man.
She'd gotten pregnant and had an abortion, and then ended
up dead one mile away from her boyfriend's place of work,
and found with her body was a letter she'd made
out specifically to him. I'm going to read it now.
Keep in mind this is all coming from her perspective,
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and we don't know if everything in it is true,
but it gives us a great deal of insight. Into
how she felt around the time she died. Doug, I
know now it's over, and it has been all along.
I guess I'm going crazy and nobody can see it.
You know you're right. I am trouble. I lost my baby.
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I wanted so much. I thought it would bring some
kind of love because I was looking for love and
never found it from you. But you didn't care. You
never came when I was sick. I only wish I
could start all over again. Then you wouldn't have used
me like you did. You didn't care, and I guess
(17:56):
you never will. I never want another man to ever
want me. I just want to leave and forget the pain.
You see, I'll have to one day pay for the
loss of my baby, and when that day comes, Douglas
will pay for what he did to me and his baby.
I love you, and I'm sorry for all of this
I've caused you. So this letter was interpreted by police
(18:20):
as a suicide. No, right, what do you see in
this letter? She wasn't committing suicide. I just don't believe it.
That's Sandy's cousin, Kim. Did you believe she wanted to
get away from it and she was going to have
to go through a grieving process. I see that she
was in a lot of pain, and she was a kid.
(18:42):
She's about to be nineteen, and she sees the way
the world is, and she's recognizing that she loved him
and she couldn't have any more than that. But at
the same time, this is where her fire comes out,
and I just want to leave and forget all the pain.
How do you hear that one? Now? That's when she
wanted to go to Maine. In the last few months
(19:05):
of Sandy's life, she had started talking about moving. She
wrote to her grandmother in Maine and asked if she
could live with her. These plans are a major reason
why the Beale family so vehemently rejected the theory of suicide.
Sandy was hopeful about the future. Here's her mom, Joanne.
She wouldn't have gone to the lengths of calling her
(19:26):
grandmother and talking with her. And she loved a grandmother, Bille.
She didn't like my mother. She liked her grandmother Belle.
And that's why I don't think she committed the suicide.
When I first read Sandy's letter, it didn't seem to
me like a suicide note. Instead, I recognized it as
(19:50):
a certain type of writing specific to teenage girls who'd
had their hearts broken for the very first time, girls
who learned too early. How men could you use and
take advantage of them, take their hearts and bodies and time,
and then just discard them like trash. I recognize the
letter because I'd written ones just like it. The note
(20:13):
could be interpreted many ways, though, depending on the lens
you read it through heartbroken teen or as the cops
read it, girl on the brink of suicide. If she
hadn't written that damn note to shiphead, I wish she
had a mail lass on up a bitch instead of
leaving it in the guy Joanne the leaves. The police
(20:36):
closed the case so quickly because of the letter Sandy
wrote to Doug. Without it, she thinks Sandy's death would
have been investigated as a murder, and that those closest
to her, including her boyfriend Doug, would have faced questioning.
If you was going with a girl and you got
her pregnant and you was married, and you told her
(21:00):
to go get in an abortion and she did, and
then she still was hanging on to you, what do
you think you would do? You're twenty eight years old,
you got a nice career with the state police, and
you've gotten a girl pregnant. If Doug was responsible, the
Beils believe that he would be uniquely adept at covering
(21:20):
up the crime due to his training as a law
enforcement officer. Here's Kim again. He's in the ideal situation.
He's in the position of authority. He has the skill set,
he has the trust within his department. They're going to
believe him over us, so he's going to be able
to cover up. He just has all the resources available
(21:42):
to him. Kim's suspicions of Doug kind of makes sense
given her line of work. She's a therapist for domestic
violence victims and as a result, all too familiar with
the ways that men harm the women they claim to love.
Passion to help survivors, and her desire to solve Sandy's
(22:03):
case a sort of interwoven at this stage, feeding off
of each other, and honestly, it's really impressive just how
much energy she continues to commit to Sandy. For the
last year, we've texted almost every single day to compare
notes and talk about the case. And you have to
remember she's been working on this for decades now. Her
efforts over the years to track down documents and navigate
(22:26):
the maze of state agencies and local police, it's herculean.
I'm kind of like gum on people's shoes, and I
ask a lot of questions. Tenacious, that's the word that
I've been told before, and it's really stubbornness. And the
people that I had to keep trying to reach over
and over again were the law enforcement that they were
(22:49):
really just trying to cover their ass and be cautious
about what they gave me and what they did. Kim
had been researching Sandy's case in some form or another
since ninety seventy seven, but the investigation took on a
new urgency in two thousand and six after Kim traveled
to Maine to see Sandy's parents. Ronald, Sandy's dad, was
(23:12):
nearing the end of his life, and as Kim talked
to him, she learned that he was still preoccupied with
what happened to Sandy and all the unanswered questions around
her death. I hate that Ronnie died not knowing. Just
it's just not fair that he would go to his
grave and not know. That's just not fair. We need
(23:35):
to get those answers, and I don't want Joanne to
leave this earth and not have him too. She was
overcome with a deep sense of injustice. She told me,
oh my gosh, you know, there's not enough time to
get to find out these answers and we know nothing,
and it's oh six, that's a lot of time, that's what.
Twenty nine years later, Kim decided to track down the
(23:58):
official police report on Sandy's death, thinking it would be
simple to get not so. She started by calling the
Prince George's County Police Department, where she was connected to
a detective in the cold case unit, Bernie Nelson. He
quickly referred her to someone else, another detective who had
a strange story to share. He started huh hoh, humming along,
(24:19):
and you know, I'm not sure. That's a long time ago.
I don't think I can get those records. And so
probably three or four calls and then he told me, well,
the building's burned down. I'm like what, So he said, well,
probably the only thing I'm going to be able to
get as a tickler file. Well, I've been in marketing before.
I know that it's just an index card and it's
(24:42):
jumped from one month to another to follow up on people.
I'm like, I don't care what you have. Just get
me what you have. Okay, I'll work on it. Well,
that was the last communication I had with him, because
he would never return my calls anymore. So I gave
up on the police report. Actually, instead, she focused on
getting Sandy's autop which she eventually was able to acquire.
(25:03):
It added one very important detail, Sandy had sperm inside
her body, suggesting that she'd recently had sex. Though it's
hard to know exactly when I think what happened, and
maybe I'm wrong. I think that he met her, they
(25:23):
had sex, and she probably was thinking, well, I've had
the abortion. Everything's fine, We're gonna stick together. And I
think he said, no, I'm going back to my wife.
The family had already believed Sandy wasn't alone in the
pole yard that night. Maybe the letter to Doug was
supposed to have been given to him in person. Fast
(25:46):
forward to twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen, and it wasn't
till my niece introduced me to her new boyfriend, and
he was a Prince George's county cop. And I said
that I've been looking for this police report for tech kids,
and they set the building burned down, and he goes,
the building never burnt down. I'm work out of it,
(26:07):
and it's about a seventy five year old building. That
building never burnt down, And so that got my you know,
blood boiling. So Kim picked up the phone once again
and dialed the PG County Police. This time though, she
connected with a sympathetic clerk who passed her request along
to cold case Detective Bernie Nelson, the same detective she
(26:29):
first spoke to in two thousand and six. All of
a sudden, I got that email stating Bernie Nelson has
found the police report. He didn't tell me where he
found it, he just said he found it and that
here it is attached. I was like, oh my gosh.
I like was nervous, and I was driving as fast
as I could to get to my computer so I
could can print it out because I thought it was
(26:51):
just going to go away, and I couldn't believe that
it was twelve pages, which was just amazing. But because
they assured me that there was there was no way
that this was going to be available. The entire time
that Kim had been looking for it. The police file
had been safe and sound in the home of the
cop who investigated the case in nineteen seventy seven, retired
(27:14):
detective at Shishlski. When he left the force, he took
his files home with him. In twenty nineteen, a full
thirteen years after Kim's initial request, cold case detective Bernie
Nelson went to Shishelski's house and physically retrieved the file
from his boxes of papers. And even Bernie said, I
(27:36):
don't even know why he saved it, but for whatever reason,
he saved it and they found it in his house.
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a seventeen page digital file filled with details about what
detectives found when they arrived on the scene. Sandy was
sitting on a gold blanket in the driver's seat, Her
white coat sat on the seat next to her, and
on top of it was a gun, a three point
fifty seven Ruger revolver. The police report also includes a
(32:01):
series of photocopies. There's a copy of the letter Sandy
wrote to Doug, along with what looks like a rough
draft and an envelope addressed to his work. The last
page of the report is another photocopy of something that
was found in her car, but it's really blurry, so
I can't read what's on it. All I can make
out are a few faint lines of Sandy's handwriting. For months,
(32:25):
I assumed it was another note Sandy had written, the
contents lost to time. But then one day I found
the original in the stack of documents that Kim gave me.
Turns out it's not a letter, it's a photograph. The
police report only includes a copy of the back, but
what's on the front is far more revealing. It's Sandy's
(32:45):
photograph of Doug standing in front of the McDonald's in
his state trooper uniform. I don't buy any of that shirt.
There was a lot of things that they said and
did that I didn't that I argued with him about.
But they looked at us, I think, as well than
(33:07):
nobody that low class. According to the police report, there
were empty pill bottles in Sandy's car and loose pills
scattered on her seat. Although this description might give the
impression that Sandy was trying to overdose, the autopsy did
not find any drugs or alcohol in her system at
the time of her death. It just looks staged to me, like, oh,
(33:29):
we found pills underneath her legs, well, there were allergy pills,
and so they made it look like she committed suicide.
That I don't think they did a thorough investigation. They
didn't do their due diligence. I don't think they investigated anything.
It was more than forty years after Sandy's death before
(33:50):
her family would get a copy of the police report
and be able to read it. They had hoped that
there would be some kind of incontrovertible proof in the
report that could say mettle their questions. The family felt
that with more information that have a clearer picture of
how and why Sandy died, but the new information just
muddled the story. The police report provided a detailed account
(34:14):
of this scene and reminded the family of the cardboard
shoved under the wheels of her car and the tire
tracks that seemed to indicate she was trying to get
her car out of the mud. The report also noted
that the gun had been collected and dusted for prints,
it had none. If Sandy had used the gun on herself,
wouldn't they find her prints? And crucially, why was there
(34:38):
no mention of Doug in the written police report, even
though his name, his work address, and a photo of
him were found in her car. Certainly they as far
as we know, they didn't investigate Doud because there's no
mention of that in the police report either. Here's Sandy's brother, Stephen. Well, well,
I'll say, is if she committed suicide, somebody is going
(35:01):
to have to do some hallacious proven to me. Yeah,
some hallecious proven to me. That's what they say, fucking
prove it. Hello? Hi? Is this said? Hello? Hi? It's Melissa.
(35:25):
Can you hear me? Okay? That's retired Detective Ed Shazelski.
He's the one who wrote the police report and investigated
Sandy's death all those years ago, the one who stored
the police report at his house. I tracked him down
on Facebook. He was somewhat surprised to learn Sandy's family
was still uncertain about the events surrounding her death. He
(35:46):
was willing to answer their questions and mine in order
to put the issue to rest. It's the time that
I wrote homicide. It was kind of a sort after job,
the prestige. I'm a homicide dick, do you know what
I mean? But let me tell you, it had to
be the worst job or the police department. We were
handling well over one hundred murders a year. I mean
(36:11):
they put us like bounds. Kishlski speaks with the brash
confidence of a lifelong police officer, and he's an experienced storyteller.
A few years ago, he wrote a novel that touches
on his time working homicide called In Cheap's Clothing. The
book is dedicated to the quote finest group of police
(36:32):
officers found anywhere, the past and present members of the
Prince George's County Police Department. So I got the car,
I was in my office and force whatever, which is
only a few wiles away from where her body was.
Arriving on scene, he recalled what he noticed, a young
woman slumped over in a car seat alone, with a
(36:54):
gun close to her right hand. Her hands were coated
in gunpowder, which indicates to Shozhelski that her hands were
on or very close to the gun when it was fired.
Upon further inspection, he saw that the gunshot in her
abdomen was a contact wound, meaning that the gun had
been touching her body when it fired. She have made up,
(37:17):
you know, like she'd think she was going to get
an answer there should make up very attractive. I asked
Shashlski what he made of some of the more unusual
details of Sandy's case, like the location of the gunshot.
He told me something a lot of people have said
to me as I've reported this story, that women, especially
(37:40):
young attractive women, don't like to shoot themselves in the
face because of vanity. I tried to fact check this claim,
and there's not much research. But I did track down
one study from twenty eleven that found that men were
almost twice as likely as women to use a method
of suicide that disfigured their head or face. But researchers
(38:01):
dismissed the theory that women were driven by vanity, calling
it an empirically unsupported explanation that characterizes the suicidal behavior
of women as motivated by selfish or trivial concerns. While
Shazelsky had a fairly good memory of Sandy's case, he
didn't remember one of the details that the family latched
(38:23):
onto the cardboard under Sandy's tires. He insisted that I
was mistaken until I showed him his own police report,
where he noted it this detail. It doesn't fit neatly
into the police narrative of suicide. If Sandy went to
the poliard to end her life, why did it seem
like she was trying repeatedly to leave. You don't wear
(38:45):
anything now, So I said, you don't want to be
time version. You want to go in there with an
opened mine, suicide, natural or whatever. But I mean, I
got a gun on a trust scene in a backse to.
It was it's not a natural fingo, I can eliminate that.
(39:06):
It's not an accident. Ingo, I can eliminate that. So
pretty much what left as a homicide or suicide. And
then there was the letter to Doug what I interpreted
as a suicide. Yes, yes, I mean, but again it
doesn't say goodbye a creer world either. Sin to me
(39:31):
like she's kind of talking to God a little bit.
She's rejected. There's nothing to live for. She lost her baby,
she's lost her lover. She probably told her thousands of
times he's going to leave his wife, you know what
I mean. She didn't get that. She loses her baby,
(39:51):
What is there to live for? That's what I can
see in that letter. I could think of a lot
of reasons Sandy had to live. She was eighteen years
old to start, she had family, a job, friends, ambitions.
I have no doubt that Sandy was despondent over what
(40:13):
sounds like the breakup of her very first love, but
the jump to having nothing to live for seemed quite far,
and I wondered if these intimate details about Sandy's personal life,
which were on display in her writings, colored the police's
interpretation of her death. What if there had been no letter,
(40:34):
what if there was no receipt from the clinic. Back then,
much like now, there were a lot of myths around abortion.
One is that women who obtain them are more likely
to be depressed or suicidal afterwards. We now know this
to be untrue. The most comprehensive research project on the
effects of unintended pregnancy on women's lives, called the Turnaway Study,
(40:57):
has found that abortion does not increase the risk of
having suicidal thoughts or the chance of developing depression or anxiety.
In fact, women who are able to get an abortion
when they want one are more likely to have a
positive outlook on the future. It hit me as a
suicide right after bat I did what I was supposed
to do, and it is it was a suicide. I'm
(41:19):
not even going to say, in my opinion, it was
a suicide. It was a suicide. Period. Not so simple maybe,
but it was a suicide. I don't think any suicide
is simple. But Sandy's case did have an added layer
of complication for police the fact that her boyfriend was
(41:40):
a state trooper. Doug's name was all over the scene.
The autopsy revealed that Sandy had sex before her death.
I thought her boyfriend would be high on the list
of people to interview, and in fact, it's standard procedure
in cases like this. The Department of Justice recommends that
death investigators should try to quote document when, where, how,
(42:03):
and by whom the decedent was last known to be alive.
I asked Detective Shozelski if he ever considered Doug a
person of interest, or if he thought to speak to
him to learn more about Sandy's mental health or to
help recreate the last forty eight hours of her life.
Not as fair as I was concern he was not
a suspect than anything. Shozelski told me that he didn't
(42:26):
have any qualms going after a fellow officer if it
was warranted. It's worth noting that Shozelski didn't know Doug.
State and County Police are different entities and operate independently,
and while Shozelski didn't interview Doug, he did do something.
He notified the State Police that the trooper may have
had an inappropriate relationship with an eighteen year old girl.
(42:48):
I filed a public information request with the Maryland State
Police to see if I could find records of an
internal investigation into Doug after Sandy was found dead, but
I was too late. Internal affairs records are maintained for
only thirty years. There was no vacation of anything in
that car than a suicide. Again, the busies constant resident
(43:11):
on her no signs are a stare. Her father's gun
is the biggest one. So I'm not going to drag
somebody over to Carr's another police officer or everyday guy
with person. Detective Shozelski didn't think it was worth talking
to Doug, but I did. Since I began this podcast,
(43:34):
I've tried repeatedly to make contact with him, sending him
emails and messages on LinkedIn. I've also mailed handwritten letters
to his home, and in one I included a photo
of Sandy. To this day, I've yet to speak with him. Doug.
If you're listening, I still want to talk. Over the years,
(43:57):
Doug has turned into somewhat of a mythic figure for
the Beial family. He's an enigma, a mystery man who
played a pivotal role in Sandy's life and then just disappeared.
After Sandy's death, Joanne tried to track him down. She
told me that she called the Maryland State Police in
hopes of speaking with him. Well, when I called the
(44:20):
State Police barracks, the man was not very friendly. He said, well,
you don't have to worry about that man. He's been transferred. Well,
he's been wanting to go to Baltimore for a long time.
We finally got an opening and we sent him along.
And I'm thinking, yeah, right, so, uh, I didn't get
(44:44):
anywhere with a state place. Maryland State Police informed Joanne
the dog had been transferred. I wasn't able to verify
this with the state Police. However, they did confirm that
he was assigned to a barracks in the Baltimore area
by nineteen eighty five. To get that cop transferred right away,
(45:05):
they covered everything up. I thought. I thought At the time,
I thought they're just telling me that shit because they
know and I still think that up until now. I've
held back a single detail in Sandy's case. I wanted
(45:26):
you to get to know Sandy in the way her
family knew her as a daughter, a sister, and as
a civilian. But one of the major reasons why I
held onto Joanne's letter for so many years was because
Sandy wasn't just a regular teenage girl who worked at
the mall. Sandy she wanted to be a cop, and
(45:47):
not just in some idle daydreaming kind of way. In
the last year of her life, she was training to
become a police officer, going on ride alongs with PG
County Police and even taking the written test for the academy.
So Sandy wasn't a stranger to PG County Police. She
was actively trying to become one of them. Well, I'm
old enough and worked in organizations long enough to know
(46:10):
that you're going to want to protect the people that
you work with or the reputation of the agency. Sandra
could have been retired by now, she's doing life six
feet under ground. So I give a shit about these people.
I hope they were not now. Well, it's just you know,
there was dirty cops back then, just like this dirty
(46:33):
cops now. You just never know where they're at and
who they are, you know. On our next episode, we
learn more about Sandy's goal to become a police officer. Yeah,
I know, she really talked about wanting to become a cop.
At first, I was a little surprised, like really, yeah,
(46:56):
So she was talking about these ride alongs and how
she enjoyed them. That's what I do. Recall she's saying, yeah, Jesus, guys,
get away with shit. You know. I'm Melissa Jelson and
this is what happened to Sandy Beal. What Happened to
(47:16):
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and produced by me and Katrina Norvel. The podcast is
edited by Abu Safar, sound designed by Aaron Kaufman. Jason
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