June 18, 2024 • 17 mins
On June 9, 1973, a young girl was tragically pushed in front of a moving vehicle, her identity shrouded in mystery for over four decades. Join us on this riveting episode of In Time Crime as we unravel the haunting case of Janice Marie Young.
Janice's life was marked by turmoil and hardship, culminating in a night of horror that left her unidentified until her brother, Timothy, unearthed the truth in 2015. This episode delves deep into the shocking events of that fateful night, the subsequent investigation, and the relentless quest for answers that finally brought closure to a grieving family.
Listen in as we navigate through the poignant details of Janice's life, her tragic end, and the enduring love of a brother determined to uncover her story. This is a tale of loss, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
Tune in and discover how a cold case spanning more than 40 years was finally solved, bringing peace to Janice's memory and highlighting the enduring power of familial bonds.
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(00:00):
She would be pushed in the path of a moving vehicle and killed,
not to be identified until 2015, over 40 years later, by her own brother.
Stay tuned to this episode of In Time Crime, where we go back in time to June
9th of 1973 to cover the case of Janice Marie Young.
(00:24):
Music.
Welcome back to another episode of
(00:47):
in time crime thank you so much for joining me once again yes there was no episode
on sunday i'm doing so much catching up i'm telling you guys the The devil is
working hard because he knows that God is working overtime.
OK, so here just trying to put in the work right now to make sure I play.
(01:11):
I'm playing catch up at this time.
So that's what I'm basically trying to do for you guys. So today is Tuesday
and I'm going to release two episodes to catch up for for the Sundays that I've missed.
So bear with me as I do that. But once again, welcome back, you guys.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for supporting me.
(01:34):
I really appreciate it. Okay, so today, like I said,
we'll be covering the case of Janice Marie Young,
who was pushed in front of the vehicle and until 40 years later was when her
body was finally identified by her brother. So we're going to get into that case today.
(01:58):
Before I do so, though, how are you guys doing? I hope you guys are doing well.
I just want to make some quick announcements.
In the description for this audio, there is the link tree, like I've always
told you guys, and then there's my email.
Please email me with any suggestion that you guys may have. I would really appreciate it.
(02:22):
That's my number one thing. Email me, email me, email me, whatever you want
to email me about, email me.
Okay. My email is there. I would love it if you guys reach out to me.
Thank you so much. I just wanted to tell you guys that. And once again,
you guys are doing very well with the support. I really appreciate it.
(02:42):
I'll go back when we're finished covering this case towards the end and we'll
go over some things. Okay.
Okay. So Janice Rosemarie Young was a formerly unidentified American girl who
was pushed into the path of a moving vehicle on June 9th of 1973.
(03:03):
There was a man that was arrested for her murder, but the charges against him
were eventually dropped as the suspects.
They said there was no intent to like intent to kill could not be proven.
So the victim was identified on May 20th of 2015, nearly 42 years after her death.
(03:33):
And this was by her younger biological brother,
Timothy Young, that noticed that there were similarities between the unidentified
victim and the circumstances surrounding his runaway sister.
Later, of course, they confirmed the identity of the body by DNA.
(04:00):
So at around 1 a.m. on June 9th of 1973,
a teenage girl was seen arguing with a man at an intersection of 11th Avenue
South and 8th Street South in St.
Petersburg, Florida. She was armed with a knife and a broken bottle,
(04:22):
so the man later identified as Lawrence Dorn shoved her into the path of the moving truck,
saying that this was an act of self-defense.
She died on impact the victim
appeared to be between 14 and 16
years old but may have been as
(04:44):
young as 11 or as old as 20 her hair was auburn wavy and shoulder length her
eyes were noted as a distinctive shade of blue she had noticeable short fingernails
which could be from nail biting,
Other features that she had were three birthmarks on her back,
(05:07):
a chipped tooth, no visible dental work, and freckles on her shoulders.
It is possible that her tooth was chipped as a result of being struck by the vehicle.
She also had two earrings in one ear and a piercing in the other ear that had healed.
(05:27):
She was wearing a ring and it was missed in a stone.
At the time of her death, she was also wearing a multicolored dress and purple tights.
So it was believed that a deceased girl was a runaway.
It was known that she had been given clothing by other people,
(05:49):
showing that she had little in the way of belongings, meaning she had really
nothing that really belonged to her. She had little clothing.
At least that would be the assumption because nobody's exactly sure of who she is.
Okay so she had spoken to the
(06:09):
police shortly before her death but this
it says that these officers believed that she was not the person whom they were
trying to locate at the time she had given various aliases and names during
previous confrontation she used her birth name names like Cindy,
(06:34):
Maria, Marie.
She used that name as well, which is her middle name.
And she would also use the last name Bronk, which her last name was actually
Young, and it says that she was born broke. Okay.
It was also suspected that she was involved with illegal drug trade,
(06:56):
and this may have been a motive for her death.
So amongst the things that she had when she died was a letter that was written
in pencil with the name Gloria on it.
And it said that she was on break, which led to them believing that she may
have had a job at the time.
(07:18):
Like I said, these are all speculation because they're not exactly sure who she is.
So they're just assuming these things. and it also made references to people
whom she had met in the state of North Carolina and Virginia.
It says that the penmanship was said to be poor and it had no address on the envelope.
(07:41):
So the person who pushed Joy, Lawrence Dorn, was arrested and charged with the victim's murder.
Murder eventually this was reduced to manslaughter
but charges were later dropped and
the criminal case was closed so they said that the reason for this was because
the police were unable to prove that he had intent to kill like i said at the
(08:06):
beginning when he pushed marie so or janice's St.
Janice. So she was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in St.
Petersburg, Florida. And in
2010, her body was exhumed from an unmarked grave to obtain a DNA sample.
(08:31):
This was because they were hoping that at some point her DNA would aid in identifying her.
So, on May the 20th of 2015, Timothy Young, her younger brother,
had reportedly searched for decades for his missing sister.
(08:54):
He had been using her adoptive name, Young, when making his search.
But when he made an internet search using Janice's bare phone, which is broke,
he found police sketch of the victim, which looked, strongly resembled Janice, his sister.
(09:16):
He subsequently reported this to the police by telephone on January 28th of 2015.
So, an investigator, Brenda Stevenson,
was faxed documents regarding the adoption of Janice and Timothy.
She stated that she knew immediately that Janice was the unidentified girl after
(09:41):
reading her name on the documents.
Janice's DNA was later compared with that found on the victim's remains and
proved to be a positive match.
So the DNA that they took from the exhumed body did. So that was that was good.
(10:02):
They had that DNA for the reason of identifying her and it came in handy at the moment, of course.
So the two siblings had lived in foster care after being taken from the custody
of their biological parents.
Their family name had changed from Brooke to Young after they were legally adopted in 1969.
(10:31):
So, later on, Janice had run away from her adoptive parents in their home in
Newport News, Virginia, after being roped by an adoptive sibling.
Her brother had witnessed the rape, and that's how he was able to confirm that this did happen.
She told her brother, of course, also, of her intention of running away,
(10:55):
packed a pillowcase with belongings, and left the home.
She did not return. Her remains were eventually transported to her brother,
and he took them for cremation.
So this case was pretty quick today.
Yes, like I said, I'm trying to do basically whatever date it is on a Sunday,
(11:21):
trying to see if you guys were able to to catch on.
Whatever date it was on a Sunday, I will go back in time to find cases that
match that date and go over those cases. That's going to be the new thing.
You know, we switch it up, we move along and we change it based on how,
you know, based on how we feel.
(11:42):
So I just figured, let's go ahead and just stick with the day that we're in,
but go back in time to find a crime time that matches that day.
So I was hoping you guys would get it. But because I have not been doing this
on an actual Sunday, that's why I'm like, okay, maybe they're not going to get it.
(12:06):
But that's what we're doing from now on. So whatever the date is on a Sunday,
we're going back in time to cover the case based on that day.
Sounds good. Like I said, if you have any suggestions of, you know,
always feel free to email me.
I will read your emails. I will read your suggestions.
So this was, this was a suggestion that I took up on.
(12:29):
Okay. So thank you guys so much once again for tuning in.
I'm really sorry that today's episode was so short, but this is a very short case.
It was like like, boom, bam, you know what I'm saying? Boom, bam.
It was not really too much to cover.
(12:49):
So this is a little unfortunate, of course, let's discuss this a little bit,
that this young lady had to leave her home because, you know,
sometimes people are living in certain circumstances that are just, it's very depressing.
(13:10):
It's very sad. As you heard in the end, she left her home because she was being
raped by a sibling in the home.
You know, one of her adoptive siblings, which are not exactly her siblings.
They just so happened to be her family because the people adopted her, okay?
(13:31):
But she came from a circumstance where her parents, she was taken from her parents
for whatever reason, because it does not say what that reason is.
But I'm pretty sure it can't be anything good if the state had to take them away from them.
So they were, it was just chaotic. Her life was just chaotic from the jump.
(13:58):
So fortunately, her brother was able to identify her and, you know,
give her the proper burial and say a few words and, you know, do the right thing.
But it's kind of, Janice was just not, she was just not living a good life,
(14:18):
like, she went from horrible parents to horrible foster parents,
because apparently the home,
something must be going on in the home, if you, if you're having siblings in
the home that are raping other siblings,
so, yeah, it's just a terrible situation all around,
(14:39):
so, yeah, that was the case of Janice Marie Young today,
yeah, yes, like I said, it's a, a very quick case.
It was really short, but that was the case that I chose for this date of June 9th of.
2024. That was the case that I chose for this date.
So thank you guys once again for tuning in. Please stay tuned.
(15:04):
There will be another episode released today, right after this one.
I promise you, I promise you there will be. Okay.
I promise you this. I promise you this. It's not like the four where I'm like,
yeah, I promise I'm going to know.
No, I'm doing it. I'm doing it right now. Now, so just stick around to the next case after this, okay?
(15:28):
And then we'll have a mini episode on Thursday, of course. For some reason,
I've definitely been keeping up with those.
Those have been on time every time.
So yes, thank you guys once again so much for tuning in.
Please stay tuned for the next episode and have a wonderful day.
(15:48):
So if you can't tune in today, exactly whenever you can listen,
it's all gay in the hoodie. Thank you so much.
Don't forget to hit the link in the link tree so that you can check out other
things that are associated with in-time crime, such as the TikTok page, Instagram, Facebook.
Please join the Facebook group and join the in-time crime podcast page.
(16:14):
Thank you guys so much again for listening. Don't forget also the Patreon.
Do become a member on the Patreon. There's free membership, but you can also
choose a tier which will benefit somebody out there, okay?
So thank you so much once again, and I'll see you guys on the next one.
And don't forget, I keep forgetting, but don't forget, true crime is not for
(16:38):
you to live in fear, but for you to be aware.
Okay, I'll see you guys next time. Thank you so much. Bye-bye.
Music.
She would be pushed in the path of a moving vehicle and killed,
not to be identified until 2015, over 40 years later, by her own brother.
Stay tuned to this episode of In Time Crime, where we go back in time to June
9th of 1973 to cover the case of Janice Marie Young.
(00:24):
Music.
Welcome back to another episode of
(00:47):
in time crime thank you so much for joining me once again yes there was no episode
on sunday i'm doing so much catching up i'm telling you guys the The devil is
working hard because he knows that God is working overtime.
OK, so here just trying to put in the work right now to make sure I play.
(01:11):
I'm playing catch up at this time.
So that's what I'm basically trying to do for you guys. So today is Tuesday
and I'm going to release two episodes to catch up for for the Sundays that I've missed.
So bear with me as I do that. But once again, welcome back, you guys.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for supporting me.
(01:34):
I really appreciate it. Okay, so today, like I said,
we'll be covering the case of Janice Marie Young,
who was pushed in front of the vehicle and until 40 years later was when her
body was finally identified by her brother. So we're going to get into that case today.
(01:58):
Before I do so, though, how are you guys doing? I hope you guys are doing well.
I just want to make some quick announcements.
In the description for this audio, there is the link tree, like I've always
told you guys, and then there's my email.
Please email me with any suggestion that you guys may have. I would really appreciate it.
(02:22):
That's my number one thing. Email me, email me, email me, whatever you want
to email me about, email me.
Okay. My email is there. I would love it if you guys reach out to me.
Thank you so much. I just wanted to tell you guys that. And once again,
you guys are doing very well with the support. I really appreciate it.
(02:42):
I'll go back when we're finished covering this case towards the end and we'll
go over some things. Okay.
Okay. So Janice Rosemarie Young was a formerly unidentified American girl who
was pushed into the path of a moving vehicle on June 9th of 1973.
(03:03):
There was a man that was arrested for her murder, but the charges against him
were eventually dropped as the suspects.
They said there was no intent to like intent to kill could not be proven.
So the victim was identified on May 20th of 2015, nearly 42 years after her death.
(03:33):
And this was by her younger biological brother,
Timothy Young, that noticed that there were similarities between the unidentified
victim and the circumstances surrounding his runaway sister.
Later, of course, they confirmed the identity of the body by DNA.
(04:00):
So at around 1 a.m. on June 9th of 1973,
a teenage girl was seen arguing with a man at an intersection of 11th Avenue
South and 8th Street South in St.
Petersburg, Florida. She was armed with a knife and a broken bottle,
(04:22):
so the man later identified as Lawrence Dorn shoved her into the path of the moving truck,
saying that this was an act of self-defense.
She died on impact the victim
appeared to be between 14 and 16
years old but may have been as
(04:44):
young as 11 or as old as 20 her hair was auburn wavy and shoulder length her
eyes were noted as a distinctive shade of blue she had noticeable short fingernails
which could be from nail biting,
Other features that she had were three birthmarks on her back,
(05:07):
a chipped tooth, no visible dental work, and freckles on her shoulders.
It is possible that her tooth was chipped as a result of being struck by the vehicle.
She also had two earrings in one ear and a piercing in the other ear that had healed.
(05:27):
She was wearing a ring and it was missed in a stone.
At the time of her death, she was also wearing a multicolored dress and purple tights.
So it was believed that a deceased girl was a runaway.
It was known that she had been given clothing by other people,
(05:49):
showing that she had little in the way of belongings, meaning she had really
nothing that really belonged to her. She had little clothing.
At least that would be the assumption because nobody's exactly sure of who she is.
Okay so she had spoken to the
(06:09):
police shortly before her death but this
it says that these officers believed that she was not the person whom they were
trying to locate at the time she had given various aliases and names during
previous confrontation she used her birth name names like Cindy,
(06:34):
Maria, Marie.
She used that name as well, which is her middle name.
And she would also use the last name Bronk, which her last name was actually
Young, and it says that she was born broke. Okay.
It was also suspected that she was involved with illegal drug trade,
(06:56):
and this may have been a motive for her death.
So amongst the things that she had when she died was a letter that was written
in pencil with the name Gloria on it.
And it said that she was on break, which led to them believing that she may
have had a job at the time.
(07:18):
Like I said, these are all speculation because they're not exactly sure who she is.
So they're just assuming these things. and it also made references to people
whom she had met in the state of North Carolina and Virginia.
It says that the penmanship was said to be poor and it had no address on the envelope.
(07:41):
So the person who pushed Joy, Lawrence Dorn, was arrested and charged with the victim's murder.
Murder eventually this was reduced to manslaughter
but charges were later dropped and
the criminal case was closed so they said that the reason for this was because
the police were unable to prove that he had intent to kill like i said at the
(08:06):
beginning when he pushed marie so or janice's St.
Janice. So she was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in St.
Petersburg, Florida. And in
2010, her body was exhumed from an unmarked grave to obtain a DNA sample.
(08:31):
This was because they were hoping that at some point her DNA would aid in identifying her.
So, on May the 20th of 2015, Timothy Young, her younger brother,
had reportedly searched for decades for his missing sister.
(08:54):
He had been using her adoptive name, Young, when making his search.
But when he made an internet search using Janice's bare phone, which is broke,
he found police sketch of the victim, which looked, strongly resembled Janice, his sister.
(09:16):
He subsequently reported this to the police by telephone on January 28th of 2015.
So, an investigator, Brenda Stevenson,
was faxed documents regarding the adoption of Janice and Timothy.
She stated that she knew immediately that Janice was the unidentified girl after
(09:41):
reading her name on the documents.
Janice's DNA was later compared with that found on the victim's remains and
proved to be a positive match.
So the DNA that they took from the exhumed body did. So that was that was good.
(10:02):
They had that DNA for the reason of identifying her and it came in handy at the moment, of course.
So the two siblings had lived in foster care after being taken from the custody
of their biological parents.
Their family name had changed from Brooke to Young after they were legally adopted in 1969.
(10:31):
So, later on, Janice had run away from her adoptive parents in their home in
Newport News, Virginia, after being roped by an adoptive sibling.
Her brother had witnessed the rape, and that's how he was able to confirm that this did happen.
She told her brother, of course, also, of her intention of running away,
(10:55):
packed a pillowcase with belongings, and left the home.
She did not return. Her remains were eventually transported to her brother,
and he took them for cremation.
So this case was pretty quick today.
Yes, like I said, I'm trying to do basically whatever date it is on a Sunday,
(11:21):
trying to see if you guys were able to to catch on.
Whatever date it was on a Sunday, I will go back in time to find cases that
match that date and go over those cases. That's going to be the new thing.
You know, we switch it up, we move along and we change it based on how,
you know, based on how we feel.
(11:42):
So I just figured, let's go ahead and just stick with the day that we're in,
but go back in time to find a crime time that matches that day.
So I was hoping you guys would get it. But because I have not been doing this
on an actual Sunday, that's why I'm like, okay, maybe they're not going to get it.
(12:06):
But that's what we're doing from now on. So whatever the date is on a Sunday,
we're going back in time to cover the case based on that day.
Sounds good. Like I said, if you have any suggestions of, you know,
always feel free to email me.
I will read your emails. I will read your suggestions.
So this was, this was a suggestion that I took up on.
(12:29):
Okay. So thank you guys so much once again for tuning in.
I'm really sorry that today's episode was so short, but this is a very short case.
It was like like, boom, bam, you know what I'm saying? Boom, bam.
It was not really too much to cover.
(12:49):
So this is a little unfortunate, of course, let's discuss this a little bit,
that this young lady had to leave her home because, you know,
sometimes people are living in certain circumstances that are just, it's very depressing.
(13:10):
It's very sad. As you heard in the end, she left her home because she was being
raped by a sibling in the home.
You know, one of her adoptive siblings, which are not exactly her siblings.
They just so happened to be her family because the people adopted her, okay?
(13:31):
But she came from a circumstance where her parents, she was taken from her parents
for whatever reason, because it does not say what that reason is.
But I'm pretty sure it can't be anything good if the state had to take them away from them.
So they were, it was just chaotic. Her life was just chaotic from the jump.
(13:58):
So fortunately, her brother was able to identify her and, you know,
give her the proper burial and say a few words and, you know, do the right thing.
But it's kind of, Janice was just not, she was just not living a good life,
(14:18):
like, she went from horrible parents to horrible foster parents,
because apparently the home,
something must be going on in the home, if you, if you're having siblings in
the home that are raping other siblings,
so, yeah, it's just a terrible situation all around,
(14:39):
so, yeah, that was the case of Janice Marie Young today,
yeah, yes, like I said, it's a, a very quick case.
It was really short, but that was the case that I chose for this date of June 9th of.
2024. That was the case that I chose for this date.
So thank you guys once again for tuning in. Please stay tuned.
(15:04):
There will be another episode released today, right after this one.
I promise you, I promise you there will be. Okay.
I promise you this. I promise you this. It's not like the four where I'm like,
yeah, I promise I'm going to know.
No, I'm doing it. I'm doing it right now. Now, so just stick around to the next case after this, okay?
(15:28):
And then we'll have a mini episode on Thursday, of course. For some reason,
I've definitely been keeping up with those.
Those have been on time every time.
So yes, thank you guys once again so much for tuning in.
Please stay tuned for the next episode and have a wonderful day.
(15:48):
So if you can't tune in today, exactly whenever you can listen,
it's all gay in the hoodie. Thank you so much.
Don't forget to hit the link in the link tree so that you can check out other
things that are associated with in-time crime, such as the TikTok page, Instagram, Facebook.
Please join the Facebook group and join the in-time crime podcast page.
(16:14):
Thank you guys so much again for listening. Don't forget also the Patreon.
Do become a member on the Patreon. There's free membership, but you can also
choose a tier which will benefit somebody out there, okay?
So thank you so much once again, and I'll see you guys on the next one.
And don't forget, I keep forgetting, but don't forget, true crime is not for
(16:38):
you to live in fear, but for you to be aware.
Okay, I'll see you guys next time. Thank you so much. Bye-bye.
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