Episode 73 - The Unsolved Murder of Garnet Ginn & D.B. Cooper
Follow along while 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 apt. he went to the garage where she parked her car, to see if her car was home. It was and so was she, but she was hanging from her passenger side door by a sewing machine belt. At first it looks like a suicide, but after her parents step in and an actual investigation takes place this suicide turns quickly into a 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
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Then Amber covers the mysterious case of D.B. 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 $200,000 in 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 list 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.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
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