E802 - Bones In The Wall & a 1776 Resurrection

What would you do if a human skull fell out of your wall?

During a routine renovation in 1978, homeowners in Batavia, Illinois, uncovered something no one expected to find behind plaster and beams: a human skull. What followed was decades of unanswered questions. Who was she? How did she get there? And why had no one come looking?

With no clear identity and limited forensic tools at the time, the case went cold—until modern DNA technology reopened it in the early 2020s. What investigators uncovered was both heartbreaking and deeply unsettling.

But th...