Unsolved: Worcester - Season 3, Episode 6 - "Where did Patricia Santos go?"
It’s been nearly 14 years since 36-year-old Patricia Santos was last seen.
Patricia was a recovering drug addict. She had been clean and sober for two years and employed at a woman’s recovery program in Worcester when she went missing.
She was last seen on May 20, 2009.
Her coworkers reported her missing after she failed to show up for work for two straight days.
It’s just after midnight on Saturday, June 2, 2018.
A person walking south along Reservoir Road in Holden notices something along the tree line on the side of the road.
As the person moves closer to get a better look, he finds 22-year-old Lenny Valerio lying on the ground.
Lenny had been shot multiple times. Blood stains the gravel beneath him.
The passerby called police right away and Lenny was soon taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
More than five years later, Lenny’s murder remains unsolved.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYdJqgIQqu0
It’s Sunday, July 15, 1973.
At around 3 p.m., the body of 56-year-old John Lund is pulled from under the rubble.
John marks the tenth victim from a July 11 fire that destroyed the five-story rooming house at 728 Main Street. It took demolition workmen more than 72 hours to recover John’s body from the debris.
The fire was Worcester’s deadliest in its history. And officials believed from the start that it was arson. The fire was purposefully set on the rear second floor porch.
When the smoke cleared and all of the building’s tenants were accounted for, the investigation into who set the fire was underway and the City of Worcester started taking safety measures in hopes something like this tragedy would never happen again.
50 years later, and Worcester’s most notorious arson case remains unsolved.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YwSyqgdLBA
It’s around 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 10, 2023. It’s a typical, cold January night in Central Massachusetts. Temperatures have dropped below 30 degrees.
35-year-old Brittany Tee is leaving her home at 18 Main Street in Brookfield.
She’s wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt. Before she leaves the house, she puts on a black winter coat and a pair of work boots.
Brittany makes sure she has her cell phone and wallet before stepping out.
Wherever she’s going, she needs to get there on foot. Her car isn’t running and needs to be fixed.
Brittany takes a right onto Main Street and heads west toward Lewis Field and Brookfield Cemetery.
Where she was heading, no one knows. Brittany Tee hasn’t been seen since.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siyd59_rLnA
Walter Palmer climbed one flight of stairs to the second floor of an apartment building at 16 Millbury Street in Worcester’s Green Island Neighborhood.
It's Saturday evening, August 5,1989, Palmer was surprising his friend John Riley.
The door to John’s studio apartment was locked, so Palmer used his spare key.
When he opened the apartment door, Palmer stood there in shock.
John Riley sat lifeless in his chair. A pool of blood was at John’s feet.
John was murdered. He had been stabbed 29 times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWGRzn405Hg
Unsolved: Worcester returns for Season 3 on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
The new season will shine a light on 10 missing person cases currently under investigation by the Worcester Police Department’s Detective Unit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vivpvOPgpcw
Season 2 of Unsolved: Worcester starts in the late 1960s and continues across four decades.
We don’t stray far from the early, darker days of the city’s Canal District and Green Island neighborhoods.
Four women found strangled to death, five men gunned down or bludgeoned to death and the unsolved murder of a woman who’s body was discovered only after snow had melted away.
Unsolved: Worcester. Season 2. Starts December 15.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wwstHoizc
It’s September 14, 1982.
A call is placed to the home of Charles McArthur on Tarrytown Lane in Worcester’s West Tatnuck neighborhood.
Charles isn’t at home when the call comes in.
His daughter answers the phone. The man on the other line instructs her to tell her father to get down to the Italian Kitchen restaurant on Shrewsbury Street.
When his daughter passes the message along, Charles hops into his prized Ford Thunderbird and travels straight to the Italian Kitchen as directed.
His family would never see him again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPFyanVWoo
May 16, 2003.
Following a tip from a local hunter…part of a one piece, blue Nike bathing suit is discovered on Whiskey Hill near the Nenameseck Sportsmen’s Club on Bacon Road in Palmer, Massachusetts.
The finding launches a full scale, grid-by-grid search over three weeks along eight and a half acres of hillsides and wooded areas on both sides of West Warren Road in Palmer and nearby Ware.
In early June, the intensive search produced a second significant finding: a human arm bone.
Days later, two more arm bones and a shin bone are found. And then a femur, two rib bones and four vertebrae.
On June 9, 2003, investigators found teeth.
That same day, Worcester County District Attorney John Conte announced the arm bone they discovered in the woods matched the DNA of 16-year-old Molly Bish.
Molly had been missing for three years.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSlEWtB5eME
It’s 9 p.m. on August 24, 2016.
26-year-old Jose Ortiz has just left his sister’s home in Worcester’s Bell Hill neighborhood.
He’s walking along Elliot Street, making his way to his job as a personal care assistant, when a minivan pulls up alongside Jose.
The driver gets out of the vehicle.
Witnesses say Jose and the unidentified man driving the minivan get into a heated argument in the street.
The man fires a single shot into Jose’s chest, hops back into the van, and speeds away.
Jose Ortiz is left dying in the middle of the road.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwa3REDrUwE