Introducing: What Happened To Sandy Beal

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When do you want me to start. I'm writing to
you to request the following information in regards to the untimely, violent,
and unwitnessed death of my daughter, Sanda and Beale. This
marks forty one years without her with no answers. Joe

(00:23):
and Biale sent this letter to law enforcement a few
years ago, asking them to reopen the investigation into the
death of her teenage daughter, Sandy Beal. I didn't take
any of that crap because I could tell that they
were hiding something. My name is Melissa Jelson. I'm a
reporter who covers violence against women, and over the years,

(00:45):
I've gotten a lot of tips about stories, people asking
me to look into the greatest injustice of their lives
for Joe Anne and her family. That's Sandy's mysterious death
in nineteen seventy seven. And Sandy was found shot to
death in her car. Oh, like, there's no way, it's

(01:05):
just it's just no way that it's going to be.
Couldn't believe it. Her death was ruled a suicide, but
the Beial family didn't buy the official story. Instead, they
suspected a cover up. I says, you know something, you
can put any damn thing you want down. That doesn't
mean it happened that way. And I wasn't very nice

(01:27):
to him because I think they were skunk in us
all the way around. To this day, the Beial family
remains convinced that there's more to Sandy's story than the police.
Let on, I've been looking for this police report for decades,
and they set the building burned down, and he goes,
the building never burned down. I'm work out of it,
and it's about a seventy five year old building. That

(01:48):
building never burned down. And so that got my you know,
blood boiling. And to be honest, I sensed it too,
because when Sandy was found dead, it suddenly made a
lot of people very nervous. Well, this is the whole
thing about predation. It works better for the predator if
your victim is vulnerable. And what more vulnerable place than

(02:13):
a desperate young person. I wasn't sure what I'd find,
but I knew where I'd start, with Sandy's own words,
because Sandy, well, she kept meticulous records, writing down the
names and numbers of the people she met and the
places she went. Sandra could have been retired by now,
she's doing life six feet under Ground. In my new podcast,

(02:38):
What Happened to Sandy Beale, I follow the clue Sandy
left behind, and I discover a secretive world that Sandy
was trying to join, a world not so friendly to women.
She had a lot going for her. I can't imagine
in one year things going that tragically wrong. Listen to

(02:59):
What Happened to Sandy Beal starting March ninth on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts