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Weekly Spooky: Scary Horror Stories — Ghosts, Monsters & Urban Legends

Terrifying & True | Murder by Potatoes – The Unsolved Killing of Donna Doll and Illinois’ Strangest Cold Case

34 min • 4 augusti 2025

In 1970, 21-year-old Donna Doll vanished from the Northern Illinois University campus. Nine days later, her body was found in a cornfield—with no signs of trauma, no shoes, and nearly six pounds of boiled potatoes in her stomach. Was it a crime of passion, a bizarre ritual, or something even stranger? In this gripping episode, we investigate one of Illinois’ most chilling and baffling unsolved murders.

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