A Brother's Burden
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
There were three Evans brothers: the cop, the truck driver, and the troublemaker. When a rumor surfaces connecting one of the three brothers to a murder case eighteen-years cold, the boundaries of loyalty, morality, and trust between siblings are tested.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this podcast one production. |
| 0:02.9 | Available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts and Podcasts. |
| 0:07.9 | Thank you for listening to this podcast one production. |
| 0:11.0 | Available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts and Podcasts. |
| 0:16.0 | Murdered. |
| 0:17.3 | Execution style. |
| 0:19.0 | In his own barn. |
| 0:21.5 | One third of all murder cases in America remain open. |
| 0:25.4 | Each one is called a cold case, and only 1% are ever solved. |
| 0:31.1 | This is one of those rare cases. |
| 0:33.8 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. |
| 0:42.1 | Don Spalding's daily routine consisted of waking up early, |
| 0:46.2 | tending to the animals, and going to work. |
| 0:48.9 | On that particular Friday, July 2nd, 1985, Don didn't make it to work. |
| 0:57.2 | Out of concern for their typically consistent employee, |
| 1:02.9 | the company called Don's home to make sure he was okay. Shirley Spalding was the one who answered the phone. Dawn wasn't home. Shirley stated that she had assumed Don had fed the horses |
| 1:08.0 | and went to work like usual. That call was received at 8 a.m. |
| 1:12.5 | But apparently, Shirley wasn't overly concerned, because it wasn't until after 10 a.m. that she |
| 1:17.9 | found Don's body. |
| 1:23.5 | A neighborhood noticed Don's truck parked near the horse barn, the same location where they had reported seeing unidentified prowlers earlier in the day. |
| 1:31.3 | Shirley Spalding found her husband's body inside the barn. |
| 1:35.3 | She ran back to the house to phone the police. |
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