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El HORRIBLE CASO de BETH DOE ¡Aún SE DESCONOCE su IDENTIDAD! | CASOS MISTERIOSOS
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El HORRIBLE CASO de BETH DOE ¡Aún SE DESCONOCE su IDENTIDAD! | CASOS MISTERIOSOS
Unidentified Murder Victim: Beth Doe (x)
On Dec. 20, 1976, a 14-year-old boy found the body of Beth Doe near the borough of White Haven on the Luzerne-Carbon county line. White Haven is a handful of homes, a hardware store and a few bars near Lehigh Gorge State Park, and few people there remember much about the Beth Doe story. It’s an exit off I-80, roughly 20 miles west of the highway’s intersection with Route 33, and one of dozens of similar hamlets the expressway encounters as it shoots across Pennsylvania.
Every day, thousands of cars roar past White Haven over the Lehigh River, suspended on a bridge 300 feet high, held up by concrete supports swirled with graffiti.
The boy made his grisly discovery near one of the bridge supports on the Carbon County side of the river.
Someone traveling west on the interstate tossed three suitcases over the edge of the bridge, presumably aiming for the water below. One landed on a frozen river bank, and two others fell in the woods nearby. The impact broke open two of the suitcases, expelling the severed head of the young woman, her torso and the full-term fetus police believe she’d been pregnant with when she was murdered seven to 24 hours before.
The unopened suitcase contained her arms and legs. The nose, ears and breasts had been removed. They were never recovered. Days later, an autopsy revealed the woman had been in her late teens or early 20s, and her death was officially ruled a homicide.
In 1983, Carbon County officials buried her near the borough of Weatherly in Laurytown Road Cemetery, hidden at the center of the row upon row of evergreen trees that make up a Christmas tree farm. This is the county’s potter’s field, a place where people are buried when their families can’t afford a funeral. Or, in Beth Doe’s case, when no family can be found. White crosses mark each grave. Flowers often adorn Beth Doe’s grave.
Long before officials had laid Beth Doe to rest, her case had gone cold.