Kendahl Landreth

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4,881 appearances 12 recordings 6 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 2 Sep

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Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder · Ep. 127 | Cold Cases Solved DECADES Later · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

And the harder question, obviously, was just determining who this woman was. matched

Investigators considered a runaway teenager, a foster child, a matched

Habitual hitchhiker, a transient wanderer who'd likely not spent any real time in Ohio, but the condition she was in argued against somebody living a rough lifestyle, and a long-term wanderer would more likely have turned up along the highway than on a township road. matched

And some detectives looked at the fact of her missing shoes and considered an abusive partner. matched

So police and the press floated a serial killer at work in the region, where several prospects matched

Of the area had been murdered across the 1980s and into the 1990s. matched

But again, she had not been sexually assaulted. matched

And to investigators, that argued against her having been a sex worker. matched

And they had already looked at a murder from that February, a 27-year-old woman killed two months before she was found. matched

But the two cases were never officially linked. matched

So in 1985, investigators tried again. matched

tentatively tying her to the Redhead murders, a nationwide run of killings of white women, several of them sex workers or dancers. matched

And that theory, though, was eventually disproven too. matched

So none of it moved her case forward, and it drifted into the cold case files. matched

And her clothing and everything else recovered from the ditch was kept, and her blood sample was preserved. matched

But still, nobody in Miami County could quite let it matched

Go, and they never closed the case. matched

So it sat on detectives' desks from 1981 and onward, and Sweitzer retired and went on to run the property room where that evidence had been stored since the year she was found. matched

And over the years, as the science changed, new pieces began to emerge. matched

And in 2001, the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory built a nuclear DNA profile out of the blood. matched

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