Podcasts · Unsolved Mysteries

Body in the Brandywine

21 Dec 2022 · 33 min · S2 E24

After a woman’s body is found floating down the peaceful Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware, she is eventually identified as Susan Ledyard, a brilliant and beloved high school English teacher. At first, her family believes Susan’s death was a tragic accident, then months later her autopsy reveals that she was murdered. Surveillance footage around Susan’s neighborhood shows Susan’s car leaving her home at 3am, the night of her death. But was Susan driving? And what happened between the hours of 3am and 7am when Susan’s Fitbit reported that her heart stopped? Investigators and Susan’s family need answers to this complex mystery.