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Transcript for The Case of the Unidentified West Virginia Hitchhiker (Mini Episode)

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Mountain State Mysteries contains adult content that may not be suitable for all audiences.

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Listener discretion is advised. I'm your host Marc and this is Mountain State Mysteries.

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The case I have for you today is one that I actually just found. It's a case that the police

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are asking for the public's help in identifying a hitchhiker from West Virginia.

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The Pennsylvania State Police in Yongentown, Pennsylvania are asking for the public's help

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to identify a woman who died in a car crash on March 2, 1986. They believe that the woman may have

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been a hitchhiker from North Central West Virginia. At the time of the crash, the truck driver was

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identified. His passenger, however, has still yet to be identified. The truck driver's family

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had no idea who the woman was. The police and family believe that the woman may have been a

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hitchhiker. The truck crash happened 50 miles south of Yongentown, Pennsylvania, not far from the

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West Virginia State line. Police believe that the driver was headed from Sparrows Point, Maryland

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to Richmond, Kentucky, which today would be an eight hour and 12 minute drive and roughly 553 miles.

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The driver is said to have no scheduled stops on the trip, so police wasn't sure why he was in Fayette

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County, Pennsylvania at the time of the crash. According to records, the unidentified woman

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was not with the truck driver when he left Sparrows Point, Maryland. The unidentified woman

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was a passenger in the tractor trailer at the time of the crash. She had no form of identification

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on her, leading the investigators to believe that she may have been a hitchhiker. The Pennsylvania

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State Police think that she may have been between the ages of 30 and 45, with brown eyes, medium

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length, brown hair, standing at five feet and four inches tall, weighing around 170 pounds.

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Records from the national missing and unidentified person system indicate that the

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woman was dressed in jeans, a t-shirt, white sneakers, and was carrying $333 in cash with a

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pack of Marlboro cigarettes. For any additional information, please check out the website of

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the national missing and unidentified person system. If you or anyone you know have any

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information that could help identify the unidentified woman, please contact the Pennsylvania State

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Police Union Town Station at 724-439-7111. If you find yourself enjoying Mountain State

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Email us at mountainstainmysteries304 at gmail.com. For the show notes, check out our website

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Thank you.

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