What Happened To Sandy Beal — TRAILER

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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 Bill. This
marks forty one years without her with no answers. John

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

(00:46):
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 Sandy was
found shot to death in her car. There's no way,
it's just it's just no way that there's gonna be

(01:08):
I couldn't believe it. Her death was ruled a suicide,
but the Bell family didn't buy the official story. Instead,
they suspected a cover up. I said, you know, it's
something you can put any damn thing you want down.
That doesn't mean that happened. That way, and I wasn't
very nice to him because I think they were skunken

(01:29):
us all the way around. To this day, the Bell
family remains convinced that there's more to Sandy's story than
the police led on. I've when 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
aft of it, and it's about a seventy five year
old building. That building never burned down. And so that

(01:51):
got my you know, blood boiling. And to be honest,
I sensed it too, because when Sandy was found dead,
it suddenly 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

(02:12):
vulnerable plays than, you know, 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. Sander could have been
retired by now, she's doing a life sex feet underground.

(02:36):
In my new podcast, 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 What Up Into Sandy Beal

(03:01):
starting March nine on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts