In this episode, Erika covers the 70-year-old unsolved murder of 33-year-old Garnet Ginn, a high school Economics teacher at Portland High in Portland, Indiana.  Garnet was found murdered on the morning of February 28, 1950, when she didn’t show up for classes and the City Superintendent went to check on her at her apartment.  When the superintendent couldn’t find her at her apartment, he went to the garage where she parked her car. That is where he found Garnet hanging from her passenger side door by a sewing machine belt. Law enforcement ruled her death a suicide, but her parents knew better. An investigation of their own points to murder.

Erika was drinking Cape Red, a 2020 Vintage South African Wine from Western Cape Vineyards, Amber doesn’t particularly like this one, but I think its pretty good. 

Erika pulled her sources from:
www.wane.com / New suspect and details emerge, but Portland cold case may never be solved / October 24, 2019

www.wthr.com /New evidence emerges in 1950 cold case murder of Indiana Teacher / 
Rich Van Wyk / October 25, 2019

 www.wthr.com / After 69 years, Indiana cold case has new life / Rich Van Wyk / 
October 22, 2019

 www.reddit.com / Garnet Ginn – Portland, Indiana, USA – 72 year old case / u/_heidster


Then Amber covers the mysterious case of D.B. Cooper. Cooper. D.B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, hijacked a commercial plane traveling from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, on Thanksgiving Eve (November 24th) in 1971.  He  parachuted out of the aircraft with the ransom money and was never seen again. 

Amber was drinking a Pinot Noir from Straight Shooter, by the sounds of it, she really liked it!  LOL

As promised on the episode, here is a partial lists of suspects that were considered:
Kenneth Peter Christiansen
Lynn Doyle Cooper
Barbara Dayton
William Gossett
John List
Ted Mayfield
Richard McCoy Jr.

Amber pulled her sources from:

www.en.wikipedia.org

www.fbi.gov

www.crimemuseum.org

www.history.com

www.rollingstones.com / The Missing Piece of the D.B. Cooper Story–Tina  Mucklow-Flight Attendance Article / Ricardo Nagaoka / January 12, 2021

www.washingtonpost.com  /  D.B. Cooper’s skyjacking continues to fascinate Americans half a century later / Katrina Gulliver / December 22, 2021 

www.seattlepi.com / The mystery of D.B. Cooper's hijacking and disappearance lives on 50
years later in the Pacific Northwest / Callie Craighead & Daniel DeMay /  November 24, 2021

 

 

 

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