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Fisherman Pulls a Shoe from the River: The Judith Gallagher Case

Fisherman Pulls a Shoe from the River: The Judith Gallagher Case

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Fisherman Pulls a Shoe from the River: The Judith Gallagher Case

A shoe pulled from the Sable Fork tributary contained a pharmacy receipt dated October 9, 1993 - still legible after three years in the water - and that single paper became the hinge of a thirty-year inquiry into a murder by manual strangulation. Who put a receipt inside a woman's shoe and why did the name of that man not surface in the investigation until 2023?

In this episode, we chronicle the timeline from Judith Gallagher’s last confirmed movements through the discovery of her body and the evidence that endured decades of silence, asking how seventy-two unaccounted hours and preserved forensic traces could leave investigators with so many unanswered questions.

Person: Judith Gallagher
Date: October 9-14, 1993
Location: Sable Fork tributary of the Crestwick River; Millrace Street, Grover's Mill, Wisconsin
Status: Cause of death manual strangulation; body in water fewer than 48 hours
Investigator: Walt Draper

- A fisherman named Roy Mason found a woman's shoe in Sable Fork in June 1996 containing a folded pharmacy receipt dated October 9, 1993.
- The receipt was printed at Bauer's Pharmacy at 8:51 PM on October 9, 1993, while a party Judith attended was still underway.
- Judith was last seen leaving Bob Fenwick’s gathering at approximately 9:40 PM after being walked to the door by witness Patrice Sully.
- Judith’s Buick was found October 10 parked against a four-foot recessed alcove in the rear lot of Crestwick Lumber, noted as oddly placed by dock worker Gary Houck around 8 PM on October 9.
- DNA from skin cells beneath Judith’s fingernails was entered into law enforcement databases in 2001 with no match; the man noted as “unknown male, possible last contact, not located” remained unidentified until summer 2023.

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