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Sandy’s newly released police file reveals that she sought help from law enforcement months before her death.
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dot org slash iHeart Vehicle Scene ten fifteen am body
lying on a white cloth coat with fur collar. Ten
cents in pocket, black mark bottom left eye three fifty
(02:38):
seven ruger on coat, powder, blowback on barrel, key and
off position with Sandy keyring park lights on mud on
rear tire still wet. Left yesterday afternoon to see boyfriend
father's gun. From iHeartRadio, I'm Melissa Jelson, and this is
(03:04):
what happened to Sandy Beial an iHeart original podcast, Chapter
five listener update. Instead of releasing a full episode this week,
I'm taking a small detour to explain some new information.
I received. What you just heard were notes from the
(03:25):
scene of Sandy's death, written over four decades ago. A
few weeks back, in the middle of putting together this podcast,
I got an unexpected email from the Prince George's County
Office of Law, attached with Sandy's police file. Kim had
given me the police report on Sandy's death when I
first met her, but several months ago I requested quote
(03:48):
the entire police file of Sandy Beal to see if
I'd get anything different. I'd all but put the request
out of my mind, so I was shocked when I
opened this email to find that the file was ninety
five pages long. A few of the pages are fully redacted,
and a good chunk of the file is made up
(04:08):
of photocopies of Sandy's personal books. This content was all
familiar to me, of course, But on page eighty four,
the new stuff starts its Detective Shozhlski's handwritten notes jotted
down at the scene of Sandy's death. Reading these pages,
(04:28):
you can sort of follow along with his investigation. He
writes when he arrives, who we talked to, what he did,
what he saw, And on one page he writes down
the items that sat on top of Sandy's dashboard. The
first item he notes is a quote PG County police rig.
I didn't know what that was, so I asked him.
(04:51):
He didn't remember this detail, but he said A rig
can refer to a police duty belt, which officers used
to carry equipment around their waist. I'm sure you can
picture one. It's unclear if the rig was hers, perhaps
given to her as part of the Explorer program, or
maybe it was someone else's. Also on Sandy's dashboard was
(05:14):
a quote personal card of a Prince George's County police
officer Mark Murphy, His name was also listed in Sandy's
address book. He died on the job in nineteen eighty eight,
but I confirmed he did work in the Explorer program
at the time Sandy was there. After that, Shozelsky writes
several police clippings. Again, he didn't recall this detail, but
(05:38):
he thought the note may have referred to newspaper clippings
about PG County cops. He vaguely remembered that the local
paper used to run an Officer of the Week story
along with a photo. Maybe Sandy had kept some copies. Lastly,
he notes that Sandy had a quote schedule card on
her dash. Shrzelski was pretty sure this was for the
(06:02):
Prince George's County Police Department. All of these items they
confirm Sandy's close connections to PG County police and her
likely involvement in the Police Explorer program. Not only did
she have address books with the names and numbers of
local cops in her car, she had a police rig
(06:23):
sitting right on top of her dash. I sent the
handwritten notes to Shozhelski to see what he made of
them so many years later. There's some things in here
that I had forgotten, like the black Mark Shazelski's notes
document that Sandy had a black mark under her left eye.
(06:46):
I don't know what that was. I think I said,
if it would have been a bruise, I would have
noted as such, But I don't know what it was.
In honor like what it was? You don't like that,
I don't like today, I don't remember. The file also
(07:06):
includes a crude diagram drawn by Shozhelski showing where Sandy's
car was located in the pole yard and the track
marks around it. The drawing is very rudimentary, and so
I didn't want to read too much into it. But
there are two sets of tracks next to each other,
like a car pulled up next to another car. I
(07:28):
asked him about this. Doesn't it look like maybe there
was more than one car there? Yeah, from what I
have there, it does? It is that her try it
and make a note of it. Who would have been
her tracks? Well? Certainly in the police report it says
that there were tracks like she had been trying to
get out of the mud. But the way that you've
(07:50):
drawn this doesn't just look like a person like backing
up and you know, reversing and going forward and trying
to get out of the mud. It looks like someone's
pulled up yeah next to her, Yeah, it does. But
I'm pretty sure that won the case. Okay, how does
it make you feel reading these notes from so long ago? Well,
(08:14):
I feel though it's still a suicide. Shozelski is still
confident that he made the right call. Those things that
bother him now, the black mark, the tire tracks. They
bother him because he can't remember exactly what he meant
at the time when he made his notes, not because
(08:36):
he thinks there was foul play. The notes also revealed
that Shozelski did a search on Sandy's name, calling the
records department to see if Sandy had any previous involvement
with the police department, either as a suspect or as
a victim. At first, he wrote no records, Then he
scribbled it out because the search revealed that in the
(09:00):
last year and a half of her life, Sandy sought
help from police on three separate occasions. It appears that
a man had been following her at the mall. As
you might remember, Sandy worked at the Landover Mall in
her senior year of high school. She was part of
a work study program where students would go to school
(09:21):
until lunch and then work the rest of the day
at a local job. According to Shoshchlski's notes, in November
nineteen seventy five, when she was seventeen, Sandy was assaulted
at the mall by a twenty eight year old man
who she said had been following her for three months.
He grabbed her and made threats to harm her before
(09:43):
being sent on his way by the security guard. Then,
in April nineteen seventy six, five months later, another incident occurred.
The man followed Sandy through the mall again. In July,
there's a third report. This time the man apparently threatened
Sandy forgetting a warrant for the assault. I called Sandy's
(10:09):
mom to ask her about all of this. Hello, yeah, Melissa,
Hi Joanne, I just missed a call from you. Yeah, yeah, Well,
how's SI's going? I told Joanne what I found the
reference to the three police reports involving Sandy as a victim.
She didn't know about them, she said, but she faintly
(10:31):
recalled that something strange had happened at the mall. I
never heard that from Sandy, but her good friends Sandra
Sheridan had told me, and I think Sandy might have
said something to her father, But I don't know if
I didn't know how it ended or how it came out,
or what happened to it. What did Sandy Sheridan tell you?
(10:53):
And when did she tell you? After Sandy's desert before that?
I think it was before that. I think she called
me because she wanted me to talk to Ronald about it,
because she said, we have a security guy that marks
her out to the car now after she gets through
her shift. Because she worked at the mall and it
was a new you know, it was a big mall
(11:14):
and it was new, and I guess somebody was following us.
I didn't know that she had been assaulted. Almost every
time I talked to Joanne, she brings up Sandy Sheridan,
And this is one of the reporting goals I really
wanted to achieve for the bills. I wanted to find
her because she was Sandy's best friend and probably knows
(11:36):
more than anyone else about what was going on in
her life. I think she's married and has a different
last name now, so it's been hard to track her down.
Joanne hasn't lost hope, though, the last time I talked
to her. She said she was optimistic that Sandy Sheridan
might hear the podcast and come forward. Sandy, if you're listening,
(11:57):
we want to hear your story. I asked Joanne why
she thought Sandy Sheridan called the house all those years
ago to tell her about the situation at the mall.
I don't know, because we never discussed it. I took
it for granted that it was taken care of, either
by the security God or her father talked to her
(12:20):
into doing something different. I didn't know if Ronald got
involved with that or not. I you know, maybe when
she told him that somebody was the security God was
going to help her, you know, to you know, maybe
Ronald felt but I won't get involved. You know, he
was busy, you know, trying to take care of the
(12:42):
family working. So I don't know all the ins and
outs about what happened here. In my many conversations with Joanne,
she'd never mentioned this to me, the fact that a
man had been following Sandy at the mall. She had
completely forgotten about it, and so had Detective Shozhelski until
I refreshed his memory with these notes. To be honest,
(13:07):
it wasn't that surprising to me these incidents. They happened
months before her death, and the actual conduct the stalking.
In the seventies, stalking wasn't called stalking, and it wasn't
taken all that seriously. The threshold for tolerating unwanted male
attention was different at that time, and I imagine that
(13:27):
the guy who was following Sandy was seen as an
annoyance and nothing more. I wasn't able to track him
down based on the information included in Shazhelski's notes, and
the original reports are no longer available. Well, Alyssa, it's
good talking to you, honey. Oh I'm good talking to
you too. I did a news archive search about the
(13:53):
Landover Mall and it turns out that it wasn't such
a safe place when Sandy worked there in nineteen seventy five,
the same year Sandy was assaulted, three different women were
abducted from the parking lot and raped in three separate incidents.
The victims were fifteen, seventeen, and twenty five years old.
(14:14):
The perpetrators were caught, and none of their names matched
Sandy Stalker. But this context might help explain the safety
measures put in place to help Sandy, like the security
guard who walked her to her car. I don't have
any evidence that Sandy Stalker continued to bother her after
the last known incident in July nineteen seventy six, seven
(14:35):
months before she died, and there's nothing at the scene
of her death that points to his involvement. But knowing
about his existence, it puts her whole experience with law
enforcement in a new light. We already knew that Sandy
had met cops just going about her day. She saw
them in the neighborhood and interacted with them at the
(14:57):
drug store, but now we know that on multiple occasions
Sandy appealed to them for help as a victim of
a crime. Shizhelski told me that Sandy would have reported
these incidents at the Seat Pleasant Station, which was the
police precinct around the corner from Sandy's house. A lot
(15:17):
of the officer names in her address books worked at
this station, including Ray from My Life as a Cop
Freak and Mark, whose card she had on her when
she died. In the last episode, I put out a
call to listeners to share their experiences with police Explorer
(15:38):
programs or police sexual violence in general, and I've received
a number of powerful messages so far. One person told
me how they had a positive experience in an Explorer
program and learned a lot of great skills, but most
of those who emailed were survivors speaking their truth. One
(15:59):
woman described how she joined an Explorer program when she
was sixteen, a junior in high school, and was sexually
abused by a cop in his thirties. She wrote, quote,
it has been hard for me to come to terms
with it because at the time, it was what I
thought I wanted. I was infatuated, I felt noticed, wanted,
(16:22):
and special by someone who was seen as a hero
and role model by a whole community. I can relate
to Sandy so much because of this, and it breaks
my heart that her memory was smeared to save the
reputation of monsters. It was always drilled into our head
that females just caused problems and we were to blame
for male law enforcement officers getting in trouble. They create
(16:44):
this environment that makes the few women feel like it's
a privilege for them to be involved, like they owe
every man something just for doing the same job. It's
like there's an unwritten code among females in male dominated fields.
We never acknowledge any wrongdoing against us because we are
quote tough and we just want to fit in. Next week,
(17:07):
we jumped back into Sandy's story, revisiting the evidence at
the scene of her death with top experts. Was she
meeting with someone who did she have relations with in
the hours prior to her death? What happened? Was there
a breakup? We don't know, and that's kind of the
big question here. Why was she in this muddy area,
(17:27):
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dot org slash iHeart Vehicle Scene ten fifteen am body
lying on a white cloth coat with fur collar. Ten
cents in pocket, black mark bottom left eye three fifty
(02:38):
seven ruger on coat, powder, blowback on barrel, key and
off position with Sandy keyring park lights on mud on
rear tire still wet. Left yesterday afternoon to see boyfriend
father's gun. From iHeartRadio, I'm Melissa Jelson, and this is
(03:04):
what happened to Sandy Beial an iHeart original podcast, Chapter
five listener update. Instead of releasing a full episode this week,
I'm taking a small detour to explain some new information.
I received. What you just heard were notes from the
(03:25):
scene of Sandy's death, written over four decades ago. A
few weeks back, in the middle of putting together this podcast,
I got an unexpected email from the Prince George's County
Office of Law, attached with Sandy's police file. Kim had
given me the police report on Sandy's death when I
first met her, but several months ago I requested quote
(03:48):
the entire police file of Sandy Beal to see if
I'd get anything different. I'd all but put the request
out of my mind, so I was shocked when I
opened this email to find that the file was ninety
five pages long. A few of the pages are fully redacted,
and a good chunk of the file is made up
(04:08):
of photocopies of Sandy's personal books. This content was all
familiar to me, of course, But on page eighty four,
the new stuff starts its Detective Shozhlski's handwritten notes jotted
down at the scene of Sandy's death. Reading these pages,
(04:28):
you can sort of follow along with his investigation. He
writes when he arrives, who we talked to, what he did,
what he saw, And on one page he writes down
the items that sat on top of Sandy's dashboard. The
first item he notes is a quote PG County police rig.
I didn't know what that was, so I asked him.
(04:51):
He didn't remember this detail, but he said A rig
can refer to a police duty belt, which officers used
to carry equipment around their waist. I'm sure you can
picture one. It's unclear if the rig was hers, perhaps
given to her as part of the Explorer program, or
maybe it was someone else's. Also on Sandy's dashboard was
(05:14):
a quote personal card of a Prince George's County police
officer Mark Murphy, His name was also listed in Sandy's
address book. He died on the job in nineteen eighty eight,
but I confirmed he did work in the Explorer program
at the time Sandy was there. After that, Shozelsky writes
several police clippings. Again, he didn't recall this detail, but
(05:38):
he thought the note may have referred to newspaper clippings
about PG County cops. He vaguely remembered that the local
paper used to run an Officer of the Week story
along with a photo. Maybe Sandy had kept some copies. Lastly,
he notes that Sandy had a quote schedule card on
her dash. Shrzelski was pretty sure this was for the
(06:02):
Prince George's County Police Department. All of these items they
confirm Sandy's close connections to PG County police and her
likely involvement in the Police Explorer program. Not only did
she have address books with the names and numbers of
local cops in her car, she had a police rig
(06:23):
sitting right on top of her dash. I sent the
handwritten notes to Shozhelski to see what he made of
them so many years later. There's some things in here
that I had forgotten, like the black Mark Shazelski's notes
document that Sandy had a black mark under her left eye.
(06:46):
I don't know what that was. I think I said,
if it would have been a bruise, I would have
noted as such, But I don't know what it was.
In honor like what it was? You don't like that,
I don't like today, I don't remember. The file also
(07:06):
includes a crude diagram drawn by Shozhelski showing where Sandy's
car was located in the pole yard and the track
marks around it. The drawing is very rudimentary, and so
I didn't want to read too much into it. But
there are two sets of tracks next to each other,
like a car pulled up next to another car. I
(07:28):
asked him about this. Doesn't it look like maybe there
was more than one car there? Yeah, from what I
have there, it does? It is that her try it
and make a note of it. Who would have been
her tracks? Well? Certainly in the police report it says
that there were tracks like she had been trying to
get out of the mud. But the way that you've
(07:50):
drawn this doesn't just look like a person like backing
up and you know, reversing and going forward and trying
to get out of the mud. It looks like someone's
pulled up yeah next to her, Yeah, it does. But
I'm pretty sure that won the case. Okay, how does
it make you feel reading these notes from so long ago? Well,
(08:14):
I feel though it's still a suicide. Shozelski is still
confident that he made the right call. Those things that
bother him now, the black mark, the tire tracks. They
bother him because he can't remember exactly what he meant
at the time when he made his notes, not because
(08:36):
he thinks there was foul play. The notes also revealed
that Shozelski did a search on Sandy's name, calling the
records department to see if Sandy had any previous involvement
with the police department, either as a suspect or as
a victim. At first, he wrote no records, Then he
scribbled it out because the search revealed that in the
(09:00):
last year and a half of her life, Sandy sought
help from police on three separate occasions. It appears that
a man had been following her at the mall. As
you might remember, Sandy worked at the Landover Mall in
her senior year of high school. She was part of
a work study program where students would go to school
(09:21):
until lunch and then work the rest of the day
at a local job. According to Shoshchlski's notes, in November
nineteen seventy five, when she was seventeen, Sandy was assaulted
at the mall by a twenty eight year old man
who she said had been following her for three months.
He grabbed her and made threats to harm her before
(09:43):
being sent on his way by the security guard. Then,
in April nineteen seventy six, five months later, another incident occurred.
The man followed Sandy through the mall again. In July,
there's a third report. This time the man apparently threatened
Sandy forgetting a warrant for the assault. I called Sandy's
(10:09):
mom to ask her about all of this. Hello, yeah, Melissa,
Hi Joanne, I just missed a call from you. Yeah, yeah, Well,
how's SI's going? I told Joanne what I found the
reference to the three police reports involving Sandy as a victim.
She didn't know about them, she said, but she faintly
(10:31):
recalled that something strange had happened at the mall. I
never heard that from Sandy, but her good friends Sandra
Sheridan had told me, and I think Sandy might have
said something to her father, But I don't know if
I didn't know how it ended or how it came out,
or what happened to it. What did Sandy Sheridan tell you?
(10:53):
And when did she tell you? After Sandy's desert before that?
I think it was before that. I think she called
me because she wanted me to talk to Ronald about it,
because she said, we have a security guy that marks
her out to the car now after she gets through
her shift. Because she worked at the mall and it
was a new you know, it was a big mall
(11:14):
and it was new, and I guess somebody was following us.
I didn't know that she had been assaulted. Almost every
time I talked to Joanne, she brings up Sandy Sheridan,
And this is one of the reporting goals I really
wanted to achieve for the bills. I wanted to find
her because she was Sandy's best friend and probably knows
(11:36):
more than anyone else about what was going on in
her life. I think she's married and has a different
last name now, so it's been hard to track her down.
Joanne hasn't lost hope, though, the last time I talked
to her. She said she was optimistic that Sandy Sheridan
might hear the podcast and come forward. Sandy, if you're listening,
(11:57):
we want to hear your story. I asked Joanne why
she thought Sandy Sheridan called the house all those years
ago to tell her about the situation at the mall.
I don't know, because we never discussed it. I took
it for granted that it was taken care of, either
by the security God or her father talked to her
(12:20):
into doing something different. I didn't know if Ronald got
involved with that or not. I you know, maybe when
she told him that somebody was the security God was
going to help her, you know, to you know, maybe
Ronald felt but I won't get involved. You know, he
was busy, you know, trying to take care of the
(12:42):
family working. So I don't know all the ins and
outs about what happened here. In my many conversations with Joanne,
she'd never mentioned this to me, the fact that a
man had been following Sandy at the mall. She had
completely forgotten about it, and so had Detective Shozhelski until
I refreshed his memory with these notes. To be honest,
(13:07):
it wasn't that surprising to me these incidents. They happened
months before her death, and the actual conduct the stalking.
In the seventies, stalking wasn't called stalking, and it wasn't
taken all that seriously. The threshold for tolerating unwanted male
attention was different at that time, and I imagine that
(13:27):
the guy who was following Sandy was seen as an
annoyance and nothing more. I wasn't able to track him
down based on the information included in Shazhelski's notes, and
the original reports are no longer available. Well, Alyssa, it's
good talking to you, honey. Oh I'm good talking to
you too. I did a news archive search about the
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Landover Mall and it turns out that it wasn't such
a safe place when Sandy worked there in nineteen seventy five,
the same year Sandy was assaulted, three different women were
abducted from the parking lot and raped in three separate incidents.
The victims were fifteen, seventeen, and twenty five years old.
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The perpetrators were caught, and none of their names matched
Sandy Stalker. But this context might help explain the safety
measures put in place to help Sandy, like the security
guard who walked her to her car. I don't have
any evidence that Sandy Stalker continued to bother her after
the last known incident in July nineteen seventy six, seven
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months before she died, and there's nothing at the scene
of her death that points to his involvement. But knowing
about his existence, it puts her whole experience with law
enforcement in a new light. We already knew that Sandy
had met cops just going about her day. She saw
them in the neighborhood and interacted with them at the
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drug store, but now we know that on multiple occasions
Sandy appealed to them for help as a victim of
a crime. Shizhelski told me that Sandy would have reported
these incidents at the Seat Pleasant Station, which was the
police precinct around the corner from Sandy's house. A lot
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of the officer names in her address books worked at
this station, including Ray from My Life as a Cop
Freak and Mark, whose card she had on her when
she died. In the last episode, I put out a
call to listeners to share their experiences with police Explorer
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programs or police sexual violence in general, and I've received
a number of powerful messages so far. One person told
me how they had a positive experience in an Explorer
program and learned a lot of great skills, but most
of those who emailed were survivors speaking their truth. One
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woman described how she joined an Explorer program when she
was sixteen, a junior in high school, and was sexually
abused by a cop in his thirties. She wrote, quote,
it has been hard for me to come to terms
with it because at the time, it was what I
thought I wanted. I was infatuated, I felt noticed, wanted,
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and special by someone who was seen as a hero
and role model by a whole community. I can relate
to Sandy so much because of this, and it breaks
my heart that her memory was smeared to save the
reputation of monsters. It was always drilled into our head
that females just caused problems and we were to blame
for male law enforcement officers getting in trouble. They create
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this environment that makes the few women feel like it's
a privilege for them to be involved, like they owe
every man something just for doing the same job. It's
like there's an unwritten code among females in male dominated fields.
We never acknowledge any wrongdoing against us because we are
quote tough and we just want to fit in. Next week,
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we jumped back into Sandy's story, revisiting the evidence at
the scene of her death with top experts. Was she
meeting with someone who did she have relations with in
the hours prior to her death? What happened? Was there
a breakup? We don't know, and that's kind of the
big question here. Why was she in this muddy area,
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you know, sort of next to the barracks. I'm Melissa
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