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A podcast dedicated to highlighting cold cases that have been solved and closed. We share these cases to highlight their resolution and bring closure to the victims and the community
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9 SEP. 2026 · In 1986, a masked intruder terrorized East Jefferson homes and vanished. Nearly four decades later, a Georgia inmate already serving life was linked by DNA and a palm print to six aggravated rape counts. A Jefferson Parish jury needed only 45 minutes to convict him — a cold-case win built on evidence someone chose to save.
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7 SEP. 2026 · Irasema Chavez was stabbed more than 100 times in her Arlington, Texas, apartment in January 2012. After CODIS produced no hit, FBI investigative genetic genealogy pointed to her friend Mayra Velasquez; police later matched crime-scene blood to DNA from a discarded fork. Velasquez was charged with capital murder, has pleaded not guilty in public, and the case now turns on what a single stain can—and cannot—prove.
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31 AGO. 2026 · In May 1991, 30-year-old mother Sherrie Bridgewater was raped and strangled in her Las Vegas apartment. Decades later, the same DNA profile tied her death to the 1975 slaying of Teree Becker in a Westminster, Colorado field. Investigators identified Thomas Martin Elliott only after genetic genealogy and the exhumation of a man who had already taken his own life.
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31 JUL. 2026 · After more than three decades, San Francisco prosecutors have charged Ricky Dawson in the 1992 rape and strangulation of Nancy Hernandez, a 45-year-old woman found dead in a Chinatown alley. Dawson, already serving life for a 1996 Denver murder and previously convicted in a Florida killing, has now been linked by DNA to at least four deaths spanning California, Colorado, Florida, and possibly Washington. This episode examines how cold-case DNA technology connected the crimes, the pattern investigators see across state lines, and what the charges mean for a case that sat unsolved for 34 years.
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10 JUL. 2026 · : In 1987, the murder of 82-year-old Opal Weil in her Pinellas County home left a community in fear and her family searching for answers amid a cluster of similar attacks on elderly residents. Despite the collection of critical forensic evidence at the time, including dozens of hair samples, the case languished as an unsolved cold case for more than three decades. Advances in DNA technology, combined with the relentless determination of investigators and surviving family members, ultimately led to the identification, trial, and conviction of the perpetrator, offering long-awaited accountability.
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8 JUN. 2026 · October 1975, the partial remains of a 73-year-old Tucson man named William Reginald Sipfle were found in a landfill near Ryan Airfield, with no identification, no missing person report, and no answers for the family he left behind. Fifty-one years later, forensic genealogy and DNA technology cracked open the cold case and pointed investigators directly at Sipfle’s own stepdaughter, Carol Ann Beall, now 79, who prosecutors allege killed him and collected up to six hundred thousand dollars from his pension in the decades that followed. This episode breaks down how the case went cold, how modern forensic science brought it back, and what this arrest reveals about the long reach of justice and the extraordinary tools now available to investigators working crimes the system once had no way to solve.
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26 MAY. 2026 · On a quiet Friday morning in June 2008, an armed intruder entered the Sun Drop Bottling Company in Concord, North Carolina, and brutally murdered office manager Donna Barnhardt and job applicant Darrell Noles in a calculated robbery. For nearly eighteen years, the double homicide remained one of the city’s most haunting cold cases, devastating families and challenging investigators. In May 2026, persistent detective work and new forensic leads culminated in the arrest of suspect Johnny Steven Talbert, offering accountability and highlighting the enduring power of forensic persistence and human resilience.
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19 MAY. 2026 · In a groundbreaking forensic breakthrough, advanced DNA technology has definitively linked notorious serial killer Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime in Utah. This episode examines the decades-long investigation, the science behind the match, and how a complete Bundy DNA profile may now help resolve other suspected cases in the state. Join us for a detailed exploration of justice delayed but not denied.
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18 MAY. 2026 · Why do some serial offenders suddenly abandon one hunting ground and reappear hundreds of miles away years later? In this deep forensic investigation, we examine the phenomenon of “predatory drift” — the geographic and psychological migration patterns of violent offenders whose anchor points, routines, victimology, and operational zones evolve over decades. Drawing from behavioral profiling, geographic profiling, environmental criminology, and real cold case dynamics, this episode explores how killers adapt, why investigators often miss the pattern, and how modern forensic analysis is reopening cases once thought permanently unsolved.
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15 MAY. 2026 · For nearly five decades, the brutal 1981 murder of 22-year-old Lois Marshall in Galveston, Texas, remained an icy cold case with no answers. In a stunning breakthrough, modern forensic technology and newly resubmitted fingerprint analysis finally unmasked a shadow suspect hiding in plain sight. Discover how meticulous detective work and cutting-edge DNA profiling broke a 45-year silence to deliver ultimate closure to a grieving family.
A podcast dedicated to highlighting cold cases that have been solved and closed. We share these cases to highlight their resolution and bring closure to the victims and the community
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