Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast

119. Smells Like An Impossible Suicide - Who Really Killed Diane Sherman Young?


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In 1988 Diane Sherman Young was a 22 year-old working mother living in rural Indiana.  Diane was married to Scott Young,  whose brother -Mike - was actually married to Susan, one of Diane's sisters.  Diane worked in a local convenience store and seemed by all appearances to be leading a normal, everyday life.  Then, suddenly, everyday became a horror story.  On May 21, 1988 a local man driving his truck on a farm road between the towns of Hebron and Kouts,  Indiana saw a car completely engulfed in flames - on farm land leased to Mike and Scott Young's family.  By the time firefighters put out the blaze, all that was left inside the car were the almost completely incinerated remains of Diane Young - her purse found neatly sitting up 48 feet away for authorities to find - and a melted .22 Ruger on the floor.  Oh, and an empty gasoline can was sitting outside the vehicle, its handle melted off.  For reasons still unfathomable, the authorities originally declared Diane's death a suicide.  Wait.  What?  Now nearly 32 years later,the story of how a few (but certainly not all) family members pressed for, and got, a coroner's inquiry to investigate the matter, and how the facts surrounding the entire affair reveal a surreal and twisted tale of deceit, romantic and familial betrayal, sex (in various and sundry forms), greed and paranoia, leading to only more confusion - and the ultimate conclusion - as is so often the case - that someone knows the truth about Diane's death.  And the truth is just barely beneath the surface.

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