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Cold Case: Killers

Cold Case: Killers

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Cold Case Killers peels back decades of silence to follow the forensic threads that reopen unsolved murders. Each episode reconstructs investigations where DNA evidence, genealogical leads and fresh forensic techniques change the story and push cases toward justice.

You’ll hear tight, evidence-forward storytelling that focuses on the science and the search: how genetic genealogy, cold-case DNA analysis and crime-scene forensics reshaped leads, identified persons of interest, and prompted new legal steps. This is not rumor or speculation — it’s methodical, document-backed narrative built for listeners who care about facts and breakthroughs in cold-cases-ADN.

New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 AM. Expect focused 30–50 minute episodes that blend case history, forensic explanation and the investigative turning points that revived each inquiry.

This podcast is for true crime listeners, armchair investigators, legal professionals and anyone fascinated by genetic genealogy and forensic science who wants clear explanations and accountable reporting on unsolved murders.

Subscribe now to follow the forensic leads, track the evidence, and hear how cold-case DNA can change outcomes and bring answers where there were none.

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  • Surveyor Finds a Lone Shoe on a Sealed Well: The David Riley Case

    Surveyor Finds a Lone Shoe on a Sealed Well: The David Riley Case
    Aug 2 2026
    Surveyor Finds a Lone Shoe on a Sealed Well: The David Riley Case

    A single leather dress shoe, upright and deliberately placed on a concrete well cap, stopped a county surveyor cold - and eighteen feet below that cap lay a skeleton that had been missing since 1979. The body wore a corroded wristwatch and a canvas wallet; beside it, the shoe’s match. Who wrote the one penciled line that, for decades, hid the clue to where David Riley was buried?

    In this episode, we follow the discovery that reopened a cold case and trace the decades-long path of a missing man, the detective who kept returning to the file, and the overlooked note that might answer what happened to him.

    Person: David Riley
    Date: September 10, 1979 (last confirmed movements); September 3, 2022 (discovery)
    Location: Talvert Township well; truck found behind Sable County grain elevator
    Status: Remains discovered after 43 years
    Detective: Carl Wentz

    - A county surveyor, Kent Turner, found a single leather dress shoe sitting upright on a concrete well cap on the morning of September 3, 2022.
    - At eighteen feet below the surface under that cap, a skeleton lay with a corroded wristwatch, a canvas wallet, and a cloth belt with a brass buckle; a second matching shoe was beside the skeleton.
    - David Riley was 44 years old in autumn 1979, drove a white Ford pickup with a cracked passenger mirror, and bowled every Tuesday at 6:45 p.m, for three years without missing.
    - Riley’s last confirmed location was the Ingram farm on the Greer-Sable county line on the afternoon of September 10, 1979; his truck was found eleven days later unlocked behind the Sable County grain elevator with his bowling bag on the passenger seat.
    - A penciled entry in Belden Roofing’s job schedule in Riley’s handwriting read “Talvert - well property - Gardner,” a line that remained unpursued for forty-two years.

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    21 min
  • The Rag on the Wiper: How a Sealed Bag Broke a 31-Year Silence

    The Rag on the Wiper: How a Sealed Bag Broke a 31-Year Silence
    Aug 1 2026
    The Rag on the Wiper: How a Sealed Bag Broke a 31-Year Silence

    A rag on the wiper, a coolant puddle that shouldn't exist, and a sealed polyethylene bag that held a tiny scanning stylus for 31 years - could a single forgotten tool finally break an old silence? The detail that Cheryl Powell’s coolant system had been flushed nine days before she disappeared changed everything and left one central question: who emptied that system and why?

    In this episode, we walk through the timeline and the small physical clues that defined the case, from Cheryl’s last routine Friday to the sealed evidence that waited in a forensic freezer. What happens when new technology meets a decades-old file and a family still waiting for answers?

    Person: Cheryl Powell
    Date: August 6, 1993
    Location: Route nine, Kellerton Falls turnout
    Case: Disappearance and homicide (manual strangulation)
    Item: Postal tracking stylus (Employee ID 47-209) sealed in polyethylene evidence bag

    - Cheryl Powell was 28 years old and worked the morning sort at the Kellerton Falls Post Office for four years.
    - She clocked out at 12:05 PM on Friday, August 6, 1993, carrying an insulated bag for her grandmother Ida’s lunch.
    - Nine days before her disappearance she had a full coolant flush at Bauer Automotive, with the receipt in the case file.
    - The pale green Dodge Omni was found with the hood open, a rag on the driver's wiper, and a fresh coolant stain on the gravel turnout the same evening.
    - A postal tracking stylus with Employee ID 47-209 was found pressed into Cheryl’s left hand on August 14 and sealed in a polyethylene bag in the Dellard County evidence freezer.

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    17 min
  • The Wallet by the Pond: How One Skin Cell Exposed a Killer

    The Wallet by the Pond: How One Skin Cell Exposed a Killer
    Jul 31 2026
    The Wallet by the Pond: How One Skin Cell Exposed a Killer

    A dry leather wallet sitting face-up in soaked mud, a body found in a hidden drainage trench, and a single degraded skin cell that lay untouched for thirty-one years - could one tiny piece of DNA finally name the man who walked away that night? How did a service log entry for a rooftop technician with the initials N. Hoffman disappear from every interview, and why did a wallet with R.A.J. stamped inside wash ashore before the body was recovered?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from Ross Jensen's morning walk on July 5, 1991 through the discovery of his wallet on July 9 and his body on July 11, and we trace the threads investigators missed - the rooftop service, the unanswered complaint, and the later genetic lead - asking whether the name that never appeared in the original notes holds the key to justice.

    Person: Ross Jensen
    Date: July 5, 1991 (time of death late evening)
    Location: drainage channel behind Morrow Consolidated loading dock
    Finder: Richard Burns (found wallet July 9, 1991)
    Medical Examiner: Agnes Doll (documented blunt force trauma)

    - Ross Jensen was 56 years old and missing for four days before his wallet was found.
    - Wallet contents included $43, a driver's license, a bank card, and a hardware store punch-card with four holes.
    - Time of death was determined as late evening on July 5, 1991 based on stomach contents and insect activity.
    - A service log entry dated June 28, 1991 listed a Tri-State Mechanical technician named N. Hoffman at the rooftop above the drainage channel.
    - Tri-State Mechanical's employee records from the early 1990s were partially destroyed in a 2008 storage fire.

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    21 min
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