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The Thorn Birds, the Bite Marks, and the Woman Who Lied for Decades

The Thorn Birds, the Bite Marks, and the Woman Who Lied for Decades

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The Thorn Birds, the Bite Marks, and the Woman Who Lied for Decades

A paperback copy of The Thorn Birds was found balanced in the fingers of a dead woman's hand; the book had never belonged to her and it took thirty-one years for that detail to begin making sense. Bite-mark casts made in 1979 were sealed in a freezer for twenty-seven years before a routine photograph revealed a distinctive tooth irregularity that reopened everything - who placed the book there, and why did no one ask about the bowling scorecard?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the unlocked door Holly Whitaker pushed open on September 9, 1979, to the long-forgotten dental casts photographed in 2007, tracing the overlooked clues and missed interviews that left key questions unanswered: who in Jean Tillman's circle was absent the night she disappeared, and who had the bite pattern that matched the casts?

Person: Jean Tillman
Date: September 9, 1979
Location: Apartment 414, Callum Street, Drenner, Ohio
Evidence: Eight bite marks with plaster casts made by Dr. Steven Marsh
Person: Linda Stein

- Jean Tillman was twenty-four years old and had been dead for approximately six hours when found on September 9, 1979.
- Holly Whitaker, age fourteen, discovered Jean holding a paperback copy of The Thorn Birds that Jean had given away four months earlier.
- Dr. Steven Marsh cast three bite marks on Jean’s left forearm and right shoulder and noted a rotational irregularity in the upper left lateral incisor.
- The plaster casts remained in a Harlan County evidence freezer from 1980 until they were photographed in 2007 - twenty-seven years later.
- The Tri-County Lanes bowling scorecard shows Jean missed league night on September 5, 1979, the same night L. Stein was recorded absent.

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