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Police Investigate Woman's Body Found In Eastern Shore Farm

CENTREVILLE, Md. (WJZ)—Police discover a murdered woman in a farm field on the Eastern Shore. Now they are trying to find her car.

Suzanne Collins reports police hope that will lead to the killer.

Murder victim Lindsey Crispino, 28, had a rough life. She even appeared on the Jerry Springer show four years ago to talk about her addiction to heroin.

"Once I start getting high I keep getting high because more guilt comes and I just for hours stabbing my arms and crying and get high and I'll stay up for seven or eight days, asking strangers, 'Can you please help me get to sleep tonight?'" Crispino said on the show.

Police were called to a farm field outside Chestertown on Wednesday and found the battered body of Crispino. She'd moved to Denton after serving time in Baltimore on drug and prostitution charges.

"The body had apparent trauma, so we're positive it was a homicide," said Lt. Dale Patrick, Queen Anne's Sheriff's Office. "Right now detectives are interviewing family and friends."

Crispino's mother said on the TV show she believed her daughter got hooked on heroin at 16 after a traumatic car accident, in which Lindsey killed another teenager.

"We lost two 16-year-old girls that day," her mother said. "It was not her fault. Police gave her license back that night."

Her mother also says she would repeatedly rescue her daughter from dangerous neighborhoods.

Police say they have no idea if Lindsey Crispino's history of drug abuse has anything to do with her murder. They hope anyone who saw her in the hours before she turned up dead will give them a call.

Police have tracked down security camera pictures of Crispino's white Chevy Impala on Tuesday in Denton at Fourth and High Streets. At 2 p.m., she drove off toward a housing project. Her battered body was found the next day.

The missing white Chevy Impala has Chesapeake Bay tags and license number 14835.

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