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Unresolved DNA leads, fading witness memories, and legal blind spots are where Cold Case True Crime starts. Each episode pulls apart forensic records, genealogical breakthroughs and investigative detail to reopen...
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Unresolved DNA leads, fading witness memories, and legal blind spots are where Cold Case True Crime starts. Each episode pulls apart forensic records, genealogical breakthroughs and investigative detail to reopen files that time nearly closed. This show focuses on cold-cases-adn: how DNA evidence, genetic genealogy and modern lab work change what was once unsolvable into a path toward answers. Expect methodical narration, primary-source documents explained in plain language, and the procedural context that separates speculation from evidence. New installments arrive every day — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday — at 9:00 AM, so you can follow breakthroughs as investigations evolve. Episodes vary in length but consistently deliver case background, DNA analysis walkthroughs, and the legal and ethical implications that follow new identifications. Cold Case True Crime is for listeners who want more than headlines: family members seeking clarity, armchair investigators who value forensic accuracy, and true crime fans fascinated by genetic genealogy and laboratory methods. If you want clear, evidence-centered storytelling about cold cases where ADN plays a decisive role, subscribe and listen at 9:00 AM daily to stay updated. Follow now to get notified when a dormant file gets new life.
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27 SEP 2026 · The G on Her Calendar: How a Watch and DNA Cracked a Cold Case
A single wristwatch, clasp fastened and second hand still running, was found face-up in frozen mud forty feet from a body that had been manually strangled; the victim’s calendar held only a lone entry: "G - 7 p.m." Who was the man Jessica Crawford wrote into her planner, and why did the watch appear to have been placed rather than dropped?
In this episode, we tell the story of Jessica Crawford, the scene found on January 9th, and the three-decade path from a cold file and a partial DNA profile to a family-tree breakthrough that pointed to a man in Farwell, Missouri; how did a Seiko watch, phone records, and patient detective work lead to an answer?
Person: Jessica Crawford
Date: January 9 (body discovered); January 6 (calendar entry)
Location: Sutter Creek; Prospect Street rental in Aldine County
Age: 44
Status: Manually strangled; case later solved by genetic genealogy
- Wristwatch: Seiko given by her mother on her 40th birthday, found face-up with clasp fastened and second hand running.
- Distance: Watch found forty feet downstream from Jessica’s body, which was tucked beneath snapped branches.
- Time gap: Body likely strangled three nights before discovery after three consecutive nights below freezing.
- Calendar entry: Single entry read "G - 7 p.m." with no last name, phone number, or location.
- Investigation span: Case went cold within months and remained unsolved for thirty years until a genetic genealogist built a family tree across four states. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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26 SEP 2026 · The Forgotten Vial That Named Teresa Price's Hidden Neighbor
A woman laid in the snow outside her own front door, one shoe missing and her life of meticulous routines shattered - and for thirty-one years nobody knew the man who put her there. The breakthrough came not from a witness but from a forgotten vial of blood donated to a community drive - how did that sample finally point to Teresa’s hidden neighbor?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline, the overlooked evidence, and the people who kept returning to the same unanswered question: who watched Teresa Price so closely that he could place her on her porch with no drag marks in the snow?
Person: Teresa Price
Date: December 11, 1992
Location: 4 Sallow Creek Road, Dellmar, Indiana
Age: 28
Investigator: Detective Bob Pruitt
- Teresa Price was found at 8:47 AM on December 11, 1992, lying in the snow outside her front door.
- She was 28 years old and had lived at 4 Sallow Creek Road in Dellmar for two years.
- Teresa left work at 4:15 PM on December 10, 1992, and was captured on a pharmacy receipt at 5:02 PM on Route Nine, about 35 miles south of Dellmar.
- Neighbor Pete Voss told investigators in 1992 he saw Teresa’s car in her driveway at 4:30 PM the same day.
- A cold case analyst in 2018 found a vial of blood from a community drive stored in a state health repository that became the case’s critical lead. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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25 SEP 2026 · The Stamp That Unmasked a Killer After Three Decades
Fear and curiosity collide: a blue ballpoint note with seven words, an unmailed stamped envelope tucked behind a church banner for twenty-eight years, and a preserved partial DNA profile that couldn't be run in 1991 - what single piece of evidence finally bridged two murders and a decades-old silence?
In this episode, we follow the discovery of an envelope found on November 14, 2022, the archival trail that led detectives from Lakemont to a missing set of work orders, and the genealogist who spent four months matching dried stamp adhesive to a name; how did a stamp and a shoebox change a thirty-one-year-old case?
Person: Angela Thorpe
Date: November 19, 1991
Location: Meridian Road, Lakemont, Kentucky
Status: Case open for thirty-two years until 2022 discovery
Occupation: Bookkeeper at Caldwell Freight
- The note inside the envelope contained exactly seven words: "I know what you saw. Stop now."
- The envelope was found on November 14, 2022, behind a vacation bible school banner in a church storage room.
- Angela Thorpe was 56 years old and walked a two-mile route to work that took about 40 minutes each way.
- A preserved partial DNA profile from the 1991 crime scene existed but was degraded and insufficient for CODIS.
- Three work-order pages from Marsh Home Services dated the second week of November 1991 were missing from the company's archived records. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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24 SEP 2026 · The Watch in the White Oak: Unraveling a 29-Year Secret
Danger lingers in plain daylight: a leather watch frozen at 11:41, wedged in white oak roots with a Breckett County evidence tag from 1994 - and it sat untouched for twenty-nine years until a rescue dog named Cleo found it. How did an item linked to Ross Wilson vanish with him in 1994 and resurface exactly tagged decades later in Tanner Gorge State Forest?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries and the people who kept the case alive, from the blue 1989 Honda Civic found with keys and wallet intact to the retired Detective Walter Grimes’s eleven years of files that contained the missing chain-of-custody. What single line in a dead man’s garage changed everything?
Case: Ross Wilson
Date: October 14, 1994
Location: Tanner Gorge State Forest
Person: Detective Walter Grimes
Event: Watch recovered by rescue dog Cleo in October 2023
- Ross Wilson was 22 years old when he punched out at 11:58 AM on October 14, 1994.
- His blue 1989 Honda Civic was found three days later in an overflow lot about one mile from the distribution center with the key in the wheel well.
- His body was found six days after his disappearance with blunt force trauma at the eastern edge of what became the Marilyn Burke Trail.
- The watch’s hands stopped at 11:41 and bore a faded Breckett County evidence tag stamped with a 1994 case number.
- Detective Walter Grimes worked the case as lead investigator for eleven years, retired, returned twice as a consultant, and died in September 2023 at age 78. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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23 SEP 2026 · The Bracelet, The Payphone, and the Man Who Waited Forty Years
A pale hand with a thin gold bracelet and an enamel butterfly charm was pulled from four feet of green water on September 9, 1983 - and nobody in five counties had reported her missing. A nineteen-year-old consumer DNA test decades later finally began to pull a name out of forty years of silence; but how did routine Thursday phone calls, a motel parking lot, and a groundskeeper’s unexplained visits become the only threads left to follow?
In this episode, we tell the story of a life that disappeared from small-town records and the chain of overlooked details that kept her nameless for four decades. We trace the timeline from Paula Hoffman’s last known movements to the recovery at Lake Portsmith and ask: what in the paperwork and the witnesses allowed a woman to vanish into a folder for forty years?
Person: Gloria Norris
Person: Paula Hoffman
Person: Terri (daughter)
Person: Harvey Fitzgerald
Date: September 9, 1983
- A hand was seen by Gloria Norris in four feet of water at Lake Portsmith on September 9, 1983.
- The recovered woman wore a thin gold bracelet with a small enamel butterfly charm whose clasp had been bent outward then bent back.
- Paula Hoffman was thirty-eight years old in the summer of 1983 and lived in Millhaven, Tennessee.
- Paula called her daughter from the payphone outside Grover County Savings and Loan every Thursday; calls stopped in September 1983.
- The investigation file on Grover County Jane Doe eventually grew to roughly three inches thick and a retired investigator kept a composite sketch until his death in 2019. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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22 SEP 2026 · The Coffee Cup That Broke a 32-Year Murder Mystery
Cold, precise details cracked a case that had sat for three decades: a white gas-station coffee cup found at 70°F inside a freezer set to 18°F, marked “P.M. - August 14, 1991,” and Patricia Mitchell’s warm thermos still in a car hours after she vanished. How did a cup blown off a car roof and one male DNA profile finally point to the person who stopped her that night?
In this episode, we trace the timeline from Patricia Mitchell’s last shift at the Garner Avenue library to the discovery on Hendler Flats Road and the freezer on a foreclosed property, following the investigative steps that reopened the file - and ask how a genealogy thread pulled from a single partial DNA match could lead to a conviction.
Person: Patricia Mitchell
Date: August 14, 1991
Location: Hendler Flats Road, Whetstone County, Ohio
Status: Body recovered; cause of death manual strangulation
Investigator: Detective Bob Fenn
- Patricia left the library at 5:30 PM on August 14, 1991 and never arrived at her card club.
- A two-tone tan 1987 Dodge Aries with Patricia’s purse and a warm thermos was found August 15, 1991 on Hendler Flats Road.
- Patricia’s body was recovered 11 days after her disappearance in a drainage ditch off Greer Township Road.
- A single male DNA profile was re-extracted from Patricia’s clothing in 2017 and produced a partial genealogy hit in February 2022.
- On September 4, 2023 at approximately 9:52 AM, Tracy Armstrong opened a humming chest freezer in a foreclosed house and found a coffee cup marked “P.M. - August 14, 1991” at 70°F. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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21 SEP 2026 · The Heel Bone in the Yellow Sneaker: How Holly Vanished in 1991
A pale yellow size seven sneaker, buried fourteen inches underground with an ink-drawn sun on the toe and a single human heel bone inside - found five days after the last confirmed note Holly Morgan wrote, "Pepper ate well." Thirty-one years later a DNA lab, a genealogist, and a detail about the laces reopened a case that once stalled: who left Holly's shoe in a field, and why was only a calcaneus left behind?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Holly's last known action at her parents' kitchen counter to the discovery in eastern Callum County, tracing what the original investigation recorded and which small anomalies later became leads. What do the double-knotted laces, a gap in an ex-boyfriend's alibi, and a decades-old evidence locker finally reveal?
Person: Holly Morgan
Date: July 9, 1991
Location: eastern Callum County
Discovery Date: July 14, 1991
Finder: Philip Whitfield
- Holly Morgan was 24 years old when she disappeared and had last been seen writing "Pepper ate well" at 7:18 a.m, on July 9, 1991.
- The sneaker was a pale yellow canvas, size seven, buried fourteen inches underground and contained one human calcaneus (heel bone).
- The toe box of the sneaker had an ink-drawn sun still visible when the shoe was recovered and again after 31 years in evidence storage.
- The sneaker's laces were double-knotted when septic contractor Philip Whitfield pulled it from the soil on July 14, 1991.
- A grand jury in spring 1992 declined to indict Travis Odom, Holly's ex-boyfriend, despite investigators building a case around him. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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20 SEP 2026 · The Yellow Boot Nobody Could Explain - 30 Years Later Confession
A single child-sized yellow rain boot, upright and undamaged on a limestone shelf above Janet Hicks’s body, sat for thirty years as the strangest unanswered detail in a murder that began with the sound of flies. No missing child, no matching mate, and soil on the toe pointing a quarter mile north - who carried that boot and why was it left like a message?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Ross Graham found Janet on June 14, 1993 to the decades of stalled investigation, the long-accused suspect who was never charged, and the evidence that finally moved a case forward; what did a forensic genealogy link reveal about who left the boot?
Person: Janet Hicks
Date: June 14, 1993
Location: Alderman State Forest (eastern trail), Kearney County
Status: Homicide by manual strangulation, body found behind pawpaw saplings
Investigator: Detective Warren Lind
- Janet Hicks was 48 years old and worked as a billing coordinator in Calverton, Missouri for 11 years.
- Ross Graham discovered the body at 7:22 AM after hearing flies near pawpaw saplings 40 yards off the fire access trail.
- The yellow rain boot was child-sized, upright on a pale dry limestone shelf, with a smear of reddish-brown clay on the toe.
- Soil analysis later indicated the clay was consistent with creek drainage approximately 0.25 miles north of the scene.
- Detective Warren Lind led a two-year investigation focused on Paul Stuckey, who had dated Janet in 1991 and had no alibi for the night of June 11, but the prosecutor declined to charge. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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19 SEP 2026 · The Locked Freezer, the Padlock, and the Delivery Driver's Secret Confession
A thirteen-year-old paperboy smelled a faintly chemical sweetness at 5:58 a.m. and found Jean Reed's body between two chest freezers, a heavy brass padlock locked to an empty freezer, and a wardrobe of intact candles-so why was the padlock there and who finally confessed? This episode follows the trail from a degraded DNA profile to a retired delivery driver and asks what that mysterious padlock truly meant when the case broke open.
In this episode, we lay out the timeline, the original investigation, and the later forensic work that reopened the file, following the question: how did a forensic genealogist trace a single strand of DNA through census records and county marriage indexes to a man no one had suspected?
Person: Jean Reed
Date: May 13-14, 1991
Location: Meridian Storage unit 37, Butterfield Pike, Calloway, Indiana
Status: Case reopened; confession by a retired delivery driver
Evidence: Heavy brass Master combination padlock found locked to an empty chest freezer
- Time found: 5:58 a.m. on May 14, 1991 by 13-year-old Troy Holmes
- Last confirmed contact: 2:15 p.m. on May 13, 1991 phone call to friend Debra Faulk
- Cause of death: manual strangulation, time of death placed in late afternoon of May 13, 1991
- Original suspect: Dennis Crull questioned four times; died in 2013 without charge
- Key breakthrough: collar DNA reprocessed and traced via genealogical research to a retired delivery driver in Harmon To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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18 SEP 2026 · The Frozen Hand That Refused to Stay Hidden: The April Thaw
The discovery of a coral-pink nailed right hand, perfectly preserved and frozen in clay for five days, reopened a disappearance that left a town divided for decades - and one question hung over every conversation: how did a single severed hand, found within half a mile of a locked co-op parking lot, become the only trace of a woman who never missed a weekly dinner? What did that hand finally reveal after thirty-one years?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from April 9 to the April 14 discovery, explain who Marie Casey was and how the investigation unfolded, and follow the trail of evidence that sat boxed for decades until new DNA work changed everything - but what did that preserved sample ultimately prove?
Person: Marie Casey
Date: April 9, 1992 (disappearance); April 14, 1992 (hand found)
Location: Pelham Mill Road, Haverlin County, Wisconsin
Status: Only a right hand recovered; remaining body not found
Investigator: Detective Roy Ferris
- The hand was a right hand with coral pink nail polish and was frozen in clay-dense soil for five days.
- Marie Casey was 53 years old and missed a standing Thursday dinner she had kept for over ten years.
- Her Buick was found in a locked but unlatched co-op parking lot on Pelham Mill Road, within half a mile of where the hand was discovered.
- Dennis Platt, a local repairman, was interrogated four times and lived under suspicion for 27 years without charges; he died in spring 2019 at age 71.
- In retirement, Detective Roy Ferris kept a logged receipt naming Lawrence T. Sheridan in a box for 30 years until a self-taught genealogist rebuilt the DNA from the preserved sample 31 years after the disappearance. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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Unresolved DNA leads, fading witness memories, and legal blind spots are where Cold Case True Crime starts. Each episode pulls apart forensic records, genealogical breakthroughs and investigative detail to reopen...
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Unresolved DNA leads, fading witness memories, and legal blind spots are where Cold Case True Crime starts. Each episode pulls apart forensic records, genealogical breakthroughs and investigative detail to reopen files that time nearly closed. This show focuses on cold-cases-adn: how DNA evidence, genetic genealogy and modern lab work change what was once unsolvable into a path toward answers. Expect methodical narration, primary-source documents explained in plain language, and the procedural context that separates speculation from evidence. New installments arrive every day — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday — at 9:00 AM, so you can follow breakthroughs as investigations evolve. Episodes vary in length but consistently deliver case background, DNA analysis walkthroughs, and the legal and ethical implications that follow new identifications. Cold Case True Crime is for listeners who want more than headlines: family members seeking clarity, armchair investigators who value forensic accuracy, and true crime fans fascinated by genetic genealogy and laboratory methods. If you want clear, evidence-centered storytelling about cold cases where ADN plays a decisive role, subscribe and listen at 9:00 AM daily to stay updated. Follow now to get notified when a dormant file gets new life.
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