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Episode 217: In the early hours of March 27, 2010, Holly Bartlett, 31, was found unconscious and badly injured under the A. Murray MacKay bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 350 metres away from her home. She died the next day in a Halifax Hospital.\n\nHolly, a grad student at Dalhousie University, was fiercely independent despite her disability. She had been completely blind since she was thirteen years old. Holly\u2019s autopsy indicated she\u2019d imbibed alcohol and that she had sustained \u201cblunt force injury to the head (\u2026) attributable to a fall\u201d and that the manner of death was accidental. Police did a brief investigation determining that after cabbing home from a night out with a friend, Holly became disoriented and lost due to the combination of her alcohol consumption and her blindness.\n\nSomehow, Holly had wandered down two steeply graded streets away from her home and toward the harbour, had made her way through a hole in a chain link fence, down a steep embankment, and fell 7 metres off a concrete abutment under the bridge across Halifax harbour. They called Holly\u2019s death accidental. Holly\u2019s family and friends in the Justice for Holly group were not satisfied and pressed for further investigation into her death.\xa0\n\nSources:\nWhat Happened to Holly Bartlett? | CNIB\nDocumentary What Happened to Holly Bartlett Seasons | Accessible Media Inc.\nPodcast What Happened to Holly Bartlett Podcast | Accessible Media Inc.\nSights Unseen \u2014 YouTube\nHolly Elizabeth Bartlett 1978-2010 - Macleans.ca\nHolly Bartlett witness changes key details in death investigation | CBC News\nReview to be held into blind woman\u2019s death: Halifax police | Globalnews.ca\nExternal review confirms 2010 death of Holly Bartlett was accidental - Halifax | Globalnews.ca\nPolice handling of Holly Bartlett\u2019s death criticized in review | CBC News\nReview of Investigation Into The Death of Holly Bartlett | PDF | Polygraph | Victimology\nHolly Bartlett\u2019s unlikely journey | City | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST\nPolice announce independent review into Holly Bartlett\u2019s death | News | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST\nTelling Holly\u2019s Bartlett\u2019s story, again | Arts + Culture | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST\nHolly Bartlett\u2019s family is angry with Halifax police\nWhat happened to Holly Bartlett? : UnresolvedMysteries\nHolly Bartlett: Autopsy & Clothing - Album on Imgur\nImgur: Map, based on police report\nHome | CNIB\nNEADS - Financial Aid Directory\nJAWS\xae \u2013 Freedom Scientific\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices