A couple’s trip to a pharmaceutical conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania turns into a husband’s nightmare when his wife vanishes without a trace. Then, months later, a perplexing discovery hundreds of miles away in a national forest presents law enforcement with one of the most confounding cases they’ve ever seen.
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Judith Smith (Photo Source) Find a Grave: Judith Lois “Judy” Eldredge Smith
Episode Source Material
- Unsolved Mysteries: Season 12. Episode 11. Published via Youtube
- The Boston Globe: Newton nurse reported missing. By Joshua Trudell via Newspapers.com.
- Philadelphia Daily News: Tourist is still missing. By Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer: Vanished: How could a seasoned traveler disappear on a trip to the Liberty Bell? By Michael Sokolove via Newspapers.com.
- The Asheville Citizen-Times: Body ID’d as Boston Woman. By Julie Ball via Newspapers.com.
- Philadelphia Daily News: Missing Woman’s body is recovered. By Mark Angeles and Gloria Campisi via Newspapers.com.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer: Tourist who disappeared from Phila.is found dead. By Michael Sokolove via Newspapers.com.
- The Boston Globe: Bones of Newton woman found in N.C. By Francie Latour via Newspapers.com.
- Philadelphia Daily News: Mass. Woman’s murder muddled in mystery. By Mark Angeles via Newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen-Times: Detectives hunt for cues regarding woman whose body was found in Buncombe. By Julie Ball via newspapers.com.
- The Boston Globe: N.C. team to probe Newton woman’s death. By Zachary R. Dowdy via Newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen-Times: Investigators retrace Smith’s final days. By Julie Ball via Newspapers.com.
- Southcoast Today: Authorities to retrace steps of Boston area woman. By The Associated Press via southcoasttoday.com.
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Tourist’s death leaves only a trail of questions to N.C. By Jeff Gammage and Thomas J Gibbons Jr. via Newspapers.com.
- Philadelphia Daily News: Murder probe returns here. By Mark Angeles via Newspapers.com.
- Philadelphia Daily News: Slain tourist’s mate agrees to lie test. By Mark Angeles via Newspapers.com
- Asheville Citizen-Times: Update via Newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen-Times: Update via Newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen -Times: Asheville sighting of woman reported. Missing tourist might have shopped here prior to death. By Julie Ball via newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen-Times: Smith case still puzzles authorities. By Julie Ball via Newspapers.com
- Asheville Citizen-Times. Remains unlock mystery via newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen-Times: A year later, woman’s disappearance, death remains a mystery. By Julie Ball via Newspapers.com.
- Asheville Citizen-Times: Reward offered for arrest in Boston woman’s slaying. By Staff Reports via Newspapers.com.
- Lost and Found Blog: Judy Smith: Traveling or Troubled?
- Unsolved Mysteries Blog
- Find a Grave: Judith Lois “Judy” Eldredge Smith
- The Philadelphia Inquirer: An unassuming sleuth works big-name cases. By Alfred Lubrano via newspapers.com
