# Solved Cases You Gotta Know

An episode of [Lazy Chill True Crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1815534472), 26 Aug 2025, 22 min.

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## Transcript

[0:00] On the morning of July 8th, 1972, a passing motorist in
[0:05] rural Allen County, Indiana came upon a heartbreaking scene.
[0:10] In a ditch along a quiet country Rd. lay the body of a young
[0:14] mother, and beside her was her 3 year old daughter, extremely
[0:18] frightened but miraculously unharmed.
[0:22] Just hours earlier, 26 year old Phyllis Baylor had been alive
[0:26] and on a journey. The young mother had set out the
[0:29] previous evening from Indianapolis, driving a borrowed
[0:33] car to visit her parents in Blufton, about 100 miles away,
[0:38] with her toddler in tow. When she failed to arrive, her
[0:42] worried family reported her missing.
[0:45] Early that next day, police found Phyllis's car abandoned on
[0:49] the shoulder of northbound Interstate 69 in nearby Grant
[0:53] County. The car's hood was propped open
[0:56] as if it had broken down, but Phyllis and her child were
[0:59] nowhere. Insight.
[1:01] Approximately an hour later, the dreadful discovery was made.
[1:06] Phyllis's lifeless body and her little girl were spotted in a
[1:11] roadside ditch miles from the highway.
[1:14] Investigators from the Allen County Sheriff's Department and
[1:18] the Indiana State Police rushed to the scene and launched an
[1:22] investigation. It was immediately clear that
[1:27] Phyllis had met a violent end, which was confirmed with
[1:31] certainty at the autopsy. It was also confirmed that the
[1:35] perpetrator had subjected her to the most disturbing form of
[1:38] assault, leaving behind the biological material that would
[1:42] ultimately crack the case. Her daughter, though physically
[1:46] unharmed, was too young to provide any useful details about
[1:50] what had happened. Detectives were left with a
[1:53] horrifying crime and very few initial clues.
[1:57] Phyllis's purse and belongings had presumably been in the car,
[2:01] but the car was found empty and in working order.
[2:04] Aside from the raised hood, authorities could only theorize
[2:08] that Phyllis had experienced car trouble and that someone had
[2:12] taken advantage of her vulnerable situation.
[2:16] The remote location where her body was found suggested the
[2:18] perpetrator had driven her and her daughter off the Interstate
[2:22] onto a secluded Rd. to carry out this horrific act in the summer
[2:27] of 1972, however, there were no surveillance cameras on
[2:31] highways, no cell phones to ping, and DNA analysis was
[2:36] decades away from being a useful tool.
[2:39] Investigators had to rely on old fashioned police work, combing
[2:43] the area for witnesses and piercing together Phyllis's last
[2:47] known movements. In the immediate aftermath of
[2:52] Phyllis Baylor's slaying, police pursued every lead they could
[2:56] find. They interviewed other motorists
[2:59] who travelled I-69 that night, hoping someone might have seen
[3:03] Phyllis's green vehicle, pulled over or noticed a stranger
[3:07] lurking near a distressed driver.
[3:10] They spoke with Phyllis's family and friends to determine if she
[3:13] had any enemies or troubled relationships that could suggest
[3:17] a suspect. Standard procedure in cases like
[3:21] this is to look first at those closest to the victim, a spouse,
[3:26] an ex partner or friends. But nothing indicated that
[3:31] someone in Phyllis's circle was responsible.
[3:34] From all accounts, Phyllis was simply a young mother on a
[3:37] routine trip. There was no obvious personal
[3:41] motive, which made the crime even more baffling and
[3:44] terrifying. It appeared to be a random act
[3:47] of violence. Before long, investigators
[3:51] developed at least one potential suspect based on the limited
[3:54] evidence and tips they had. Details about this early suspect
[3:59] were not released to the public, but authorities privately
[4:02] considered him a strong person of interest.
[4:08] Perhaps it was a local man with a history of violence, or a
[4:11] passerby who matched a description from a witness
[4:14] sighting. However, in 1972 they lacked the
[4:19] forensic evidence to make a charge stick, something that
[4:23] would actually turn out to be fortunate given subsequent
[4:26] developments. Despite their efforts, no
[4:29] arrests were made, and the case began to go cold.
[4:34] Families in the area were left to wonder if a predator was
[4:37] still among them, and Phyllis's loved ones were left with
[4:40] agonizing questions. Who attacked her?
[4:44] And why did this horrific monster decide to spare her
[4:47] child? The Phyllis Baylor case
[4:52] gradually became one of Indiana's most stubborn cold
[4:54] cases. For decades, Phyllis's family,
[4:59] and in particular her daughter, received no answers.
[5:03] Periodic news stories recalled the tragic tale of the young
[5:06] mother found in the ditch. But as memories faded and
[5:10] investigators retired, the trail to her perpetrator seemed to all
[5:14] but disappear. Thankfully, it wasn't that
[5:17] police didn't have any evidence. They did recover physical
[5:21] evidence, but the perpetrator's identity remained hidden within
[5:25] it, literally at the molecular level.
[5:29] By the early 1990s, as DNA profiling emerged in forensic
[5:34] science, hope was rekindled. A partial DNA profile was
[5:38] eventually developed from biological material found on
[5:41] Phyllis's clothing, presumably from the assailant.
[5:45] When investigators compared this DNA profile against the man they
[5:49] had long suspected, the results were stunning.
[5:53] The partial profile eliminated their main suspect.
[5:57] It was now 2 decades after the crime, and the authorities were
[6:01] back to square 1. Throughout the following
[6:06] decades, the Indiana State Police Cold Case Unit
[6:09] periodically revisited it, especially as DNA technology
[6:13] improved over the years. Each advance in forensic science
[6:17] brought a new opportunity to glean more information from the
[6:20] evidence. But for a long time, the DNA
[6:23] sample was too degraded or incomplete to point clearly to
[6:26] one individual. It yielded no matches.
[6:29] In CODIS, the FB is database of convicted offenders because the
[6:34] perpetrator might never have had his DNA taken in a criminal
[6:37] case, or he simply wasn't in the system.
[6:41] Meanwhile, as the decades went by, Phyllis's daughter grew into
[6:45] adulthood believing that the man who committed this evil act was
[6:50] likely walking free. Little did she know, she would
[6:54] soon find out that the man responsible for her mother's
[6:57] death had suffered a fate that would have caused a medieval
[7:00] inquisitor to furiously take notes.
[7:05] In 2024, the cold case detectives investigating Phyllis
[7:09] Baylor's slaying decided to leverage the latest cutting edge
[7:13] technology. The Indiana State Police
[7:16] Laboratory re examined the genetic material from Phyllis's
[7:19] clothing and managed to develop a much stronger DNA profile of
[7:24] the unknown suspect. This new profile was more
[7:27] complete and thus far more useful for searching in modern
[7:31] DNA databases. Traditional law enforcement
[7:35] databases still didn't have a direct match, and the DNA
[7:38] profile didn't match with any known convicted offender.
[7:42] So investigators turn to an innovative method that has been
[7:46] solving cold cases around the country in recent years,
[7:50] forensic genetic genealogy. This is a painstaking process,
[7:55] building out family trees from distant cousins and obscure
[7:58] records, But it paid off big time.
[8:02] By early 2025, the investigators had zeroed in on a name.
[8:07] After 53 years of mystery, the DNA left on Phyllis's clothing
[8:12] finally had a match in the family tree.
[8:14] Fred Allen Lineman Lineman was a 25 year old man originally from
[8:22] Anderson IN roughly 40 miles from Indianapolis, not far from
[8:27] Phyllis's starting point that night.
[8:29] He later lived in Michigan and had accumulated a significant
[8:33] criminal history by his mid 20s. According to police, he had no
[8:38] known connection to Phyllis Baylor.
[8:40] He was neither a family friend nor an acquaintance.
[8:44] This lack of any prior link explains why he was never on
[8:47] investigators radar. Phyllis almost certainly didn't
[8:50] know him at all. A chilling hallmark of stranger
[8:53] on stranger violence. When detectives dug into the
[8:59] perpetrators background, they uncovered an interesting
[9:02] footnote on his disturbing life. Lineman himself had died
[9:06] violently in the 1980s. In a grim twist of fate, this
[9:11] man who preyed on a stranded young mother later became the
[9:15] prey himself. Investigators learned that
[9:18] Lineman was slain in Detroit in 1985 under absolutely brutal and
[9:23] gruesome circumstances. Now usually I don't go into too
[9:27] much detail out of respect for the victims of crime, but I'm
[9:32] going to make an exception here. Lineman, who was by then 37
[9:37] years old, had crossed 2 very bad men.
[9:41] These two men spent some time working him over with a baseball
[9:44] bat, threw him in a dumpster, and then potentially while he
[9:49] was still alive, lit the dumpster up.
[9:52] I naturally have to wonder if he questioned the life he lived and
[9:56] the acts he committed as the flames rose around him.
[10:02] The Indiana State Police announced the solved case
[10:04] publicly in April 2025, finally bringing a sense of resolution
[10:09] to this mystery 50 years in the making.
[10:12] Indiana authorities noted that if Lineman were alive, he would
[10:16] have been charged with Phyllis Baylor's slaying and prosecuted
[10:20] by the Allen County Prosecutor's Office.
[10:23] Some believe that Phyllis may not have been Lineman's first or
[10:26] last victim and that he may be connected to other crimes.
[10:31] So far, it's unclear if the authorities are investigating
[10:34] this Ave. but given the random nature of his attack on Phyllis,
[10:38] it's strongly speculated that they are.
[10:44] Hey everyone, it's Jimmy here with a quick reminder to like
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[10:50] Also remember to check out my other channels Lazy Chill Zone
[10:54] and Lazy Chill History for unsolved mysteries and
[10:57] historical content respectively. On April 18th, 1973, a man in
[11:06] rural Anderson County, Kansas stumbled upon the decomposed
[11:10] remains of a young male about 3 miles southeast of the small
[11:14] town of Garnett. The body was found near a
[11:16] shallow stream roughly 180 feet off a Country Rd.
[11:22] Investigators noted the victim's attire and personal items in
[11:25] detail. He was very well dressed,
[11:28] wearing a corduroy jacket, a button up shirt, stylish jeans,
[11:33] a black leather belt, hiking boots and leather gloves.
[11:38] The young man also wore jewelry, 2 gold rings etched with
[11:42] crosses, another ring engraved with the number 78, and a silver
[11:47] chain with a 2 inch cross pendant.
[11:50] These possessions offered a few clues but no immediate identity.
[11:58] An autopsy was performed and revealed signs of severe trauma,
[12:01] including a skull fracture, leading the coroner to rule the
[12:05] death of slaying. The medical examiner estimated
[12:09] the victim to be a white male in his late teens to early 20s with
[12:13] a slender build and medium length brown WAVY hair.
[12:17] It appeared his body had been at the site for only a few weeks.
[12:21] Authorities believed he had likely been slain about two to
[12:24] four weeks before discovery. Given the state of
[12:27] decomposition. Whether the ACT took place right
[12:31] there in the woods or the body had been dumped afterwards
[12:34] remained uncertain. Early on, investigators
[12:38] theorized the victim might have been a hitchhiker who met a
[12:41] deadly fate while traveling through the area.
[12:44] Despite these efforts and a thorough search of missing
[12:47] persons reports from the region, the young man could not be
[12:51] identified. With no name to call him,
[12:55] authorities referred to the unknown victim as the Garnett
[12:58] John Doe. When no leads emerged, the
[13:02] community gave the unidentified individual a dignified burial in
[13:07] Garnett Cemetery. The story had moved the local
[13:10] community so much they even raised money for a small
[13:13] headstone, a rarity in cases such as this.
[13:17] And keep this in mind because this isn't just a fact to help
[13:21] restore your faith in humanity. It'll actually end up helping
[13:25] crack the case. The case of the Garnett John Doe
[13:30] turned cold as years passed with no identification.
[13:34] Law enforcement never forgot the nameless teenager, and over
[13:38] time, they revisited the case with new techniques.
[13:40] As technology advanced, his information was eventually
[13:44] entered into national databases for missing and unidentified
[13:48] persons as those grew in size and scope over the years.
[13:53] Still, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, no match was found for
[13:58] the Garnett John Doe. In 2005, more than 30 years
[14:03] after the slaying, investigators took a significant step in a
[14:08] testament to the community efforts to give him a proper
[14:11] burial. They exhumed the John Doe's
[14:14] remains to apply emerging DNA technology.
[14:18] Notably, in many of these cases, the body is buried, but due to
[14:22] poor record keeping, the exact location ends up lost.
[14:26] The community funded headstone solved this issue.
[14:30] Forensic experts carefully recovered the skeletal remains,
[14:33] which had been well preserved in a vinyl body bag inside a wooden
[14:37] coffin. Once again, another testament to
[14:39] the local community. The Kansas Bureau of
[14:45] Investigation attempted to match his DNA to databases, but
[14:49] ultimately nothing came of this. Given the technology at the
[14:52] time, this was a major disappointment to investigators,
[14:57] but all hope wasn't lost. Flash forward to the twenty 20s
[15:02] and forensic science has been revolutionized by genetic
[15:05] genealogy. The Anderson County Sheriff's
[15:09] Office and the KBI partnered with a private forensic lab,
[15:13] Othrum, who I feel at this point need no introduction.
[15:18] The remains of the Garnett John Doe were sent to Othrum's
[15:21] laboratory in Texas, where their scientists successfully
[15:25] developed a complete DNA profile despite the age of the evidence.
[15:30] This would ultimately result in this 5 decade old case being
[15:34] cracked wide open. But first, there's a parallel
[15:37] tale to tell. While the Garnett John Doe case
[15:43] sat unsolved, another mystery lingered 80 miles away in Kansas
[15:47] City, KS. And for those who aren't that
[15:50] familiar with Midwestern geography, there's also a Kansas
[15:54] City, MO right across the state border.
[15:58] In the fall of 1972, a 16 year old boy named Jimmy Dollison
[16:04] disappeared from his Kansas City home and was never heard from
[16:07] again. Jimmy had been living with his
[16:10] family in Kansas City and by all accounts was an ordinary
[16:14] teenager of the early 1970s. Sometime in October or November
[16:19] 1972, he went out and never came back.
[16:23] His worried parents reported him missing to local authorities,
[16:27] and the family desperately searched for answers.
[16:31] Unfortunately, there's not much out there on the investigative
[16:34] efforts undertaken by the authorities at that time.
[16:38] However, knowing the time period, my educated guess is
[16:41] that the police told Jimmy's parents he's likely a runaway
[16:46] and closed his file as soon as possible.
[16:50] Further, at the time, there were few tools to broadcast a missing
[16:53] persons information beyond the immediate area.
[16:57] Decades before the era of online databases and nationwide missing
[17:01] persons alerts, Jimmy's disappearance remained a local
[17:05] case with little publicity. His relatives never knew if he
[17:09] had run away, fallen victim to foul play, or had an accident.
[17:14] He simply vanished, and no trace of the teenager turned up in the
[17:18] weeks and months that followed. As the 1970s gave way to the
[17:23] 1980s and beyond, Jimmy's family was left with only painful
[17:28] uncertainty. They had no idea that their boys
[17:31] remains had actually been found the very next spring and laid to
[17:35] rest under a nameless tombstone in Garnett, under the careful
[17:38] watch of a caring local community.
[17:41] For over 50 years, the fates of Jimmy Dollison and the Garnett
[17:45] John Doe remained unconnected. Puzzles 2 Unsolved mysteries
[17:50] running in complete parallel. In early 2025, after months of
[17:58] specialized DNA analysis, the breakthrough finally arrived.
[18:03] Othrum's genealogical research had generated leads to specific
[18:07] families that shared significant DNA with the unknown Garnett
[18:10] victim. KBI agents and Anderson County
[18:14] investigators followed the genetic leads to locate
[18:17] surviving family members of the victim.
[18:20] They identified siblings of a missing Kansas City boy, and in
[18:24] February 2025, those siblings were approached by law
[18:28] enforcement. Investigators conducted
[18:31] interviews and collected DNA samples from at least one close
[18:35] relative for direct comparison. The laboratory analysis
[18:39] confirmed what the officers had suspected.
[18:42] The DNA from the exhumed remains matched the family's DNA.
[18:47] The Garnet John Doe was positively identified as Jimmy
[18:50] Allen Dollison, the Kansas City teenager who had vanished in
[18:54] 1972. The identification was
[18:58] officially announced in April 2025, bringing an end to the 52
[19:03] year old mystery of the boy's identity.
[19:08] With Jimmy's identity confirmed, the focus of the cold case has
[19:12] shifted from who the victim was to who perpetrated this act
[19:16] against him. The Kansas Bureau of
[19:18] Investigation and the Anderson County Sheriff's Office have
[19:22] reopened the investigation. Now, armed with the knowledge of
[19:25] the victim's name and origin, detectives are piercing together
[19:29] Jimmy's last known movements in the fall of 1972, hoping to
[19:34] determine how he ended up in Garnett and who might have been
[19:38] involved. Some have speculated that he was
[19:41] hitchhiking westward and may have been picked up by a
[19:44] dangerous stranger. Others have questioned whether
[19:47] someone he believed to be his friend may have turned on him.
[19:52] These questions remain unanswered, but identifying him
[19:56] will give investigators the opportunity to investigate all
[19:59] sorts of new leads while the case is over 50 years old.
[20:04] Most of the people who knew him from school will likely still be
[20:08] alive and potentially be able to give information about what he
[20:12] was up to in his final days. One thing that's unclear to me
[20:19] at present, and that I'd like to know, is whether the police file
[20:23] from 1972 for Jimmy Dollison's disappearance has been preserved
[20:27] in any way. If it has, there may be witness
[20:31] statements which can now be followed up on over 50 years
[20:34] later. That said, it's not even clear
[20:37] to me if the authorities investigated Jimmy's
[20:39] disappearance when his parents reported him gone.
[20:43] It may be that there's no file whatsoever and never was, which
[20:48] would of course significantly hinder any potential complete
[20:51] resolution to this case. This, of course, seems
[20:55] incredibly odd to me, given that he was 16 years old when he went
[20:58] missing, but this seems to have been the general approach to
[21:02] policing at the time. All that said, if they did any
[21:06] investigative work whatsoever, and if it survived, this could
[21:11] be the key to fully solving this case.
[21:14] By combining the evidentiary value of the Garnet John Doe
[21:17] file, the Jimmy Dollison investigative file and the DNA
[21:22] evidence, perhaps the authorities can finally resolve
[21:25] this mystery fully. Yeah.

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