INDIANA 1972 Cold Case Solved — Her Daughter Still Has the Last Thing Her Mother Gave Her
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In July 1972, 26-year-old Phyllis Bailer left Indianapolis, Indiana, with her three-year-old daughter, Jodi, for a trip to visit family in Bluffton. They never arrived.
The following morning, the borrowed Ford Phyllis had been driving was found abandoned along Interstate 69. About an hour later, Jodi was discovered alive near a rural road in Allen County. Nearby, investigators found Phyllis.
What happened between the abandoned car and that quiet rural road would remain one of Indiana's most haunting mysteries for more than five decades.
Investigators pursued leads, focused on a suspect, and eventually turned to evidence that had been preserved since 1972. But as forensic science advanced, the case began to tell a very different story.
More than 50 years later, a breakthrough in DNA technology would change the investigation forever.
But who was responsible—and how did that person ever cross paths with Phyllis?
In this episode, CrimeCase Ledger takes you through the timeline, the investigation, the suspect detectives once focused on, the evidence that changed everything, and the breakthrough that finally gave investigators a name.
Watch until the end, because the answer to this case came with another question investigators still can't fully explain.
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INDIANA 1972 Cold Case Solved — Her Daughter Still Has the Last Thing Her Mother Gave Her
CrimeCase Ledger
350 views
In July 1972, 26-year-old Phyllis Bailer left Indianapolis, Indiana, with her three-year-old daughter, Jodi, for a trip to visit family in Bluffton. They never arrived.
The following morning, the borrowed Ford Phyllis had been driving was found abandoned along Interstate 69. About an hour later, Jodi was discovered alive near a rural road in Allen County. Nearby, investigators found Phyllis.
What happened between the abandoned car and that quiet rural road would remain one of Indiana's most haunting mysteries for more than five decades.
Investigators pursued leads, focused on a suspect, and eventually turned to evidence that had been preserved since 1972. But as forensic science advanced, the case began to tell a very different story.
More than 50 years later, a breakthrough in DNA technology would change the investigation forever.
But who was responsible—and how did that person ever cross paths with Phyllis?
In this episode, CrimeCase Ledger takes you through the timeline, the investigation, the suspect detectives once focused on, the evidence that changed everything, and the breakthrough that finally gave investigators a name.
Watch until the end, because the answer to this case came with another question investigators still can't fully explain.
Subscribe to CrimeCase Ledger for carefully researched true crime documentaries, cold cases, homicide investigations, unsolved mysteries, and forensic breakthroughs.
#TrueCrime #ColdCase #PhyllisBailer #CrimeCaseLedger #TrueCrimeDocumentary #ColdCaseMystery #DNA #ForensicGenealogy #UnsolvedMysteries #Homicide