A Cop's Promise

Ice Cold Case

Madison McGhee

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, True Crime

4.4 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Belmont County Sheriff's Department has assigned a new detective to the case. New press articles question the integrity of this assignment and the motive for the renewed interest in J.C. McGhee's case. Additional Sources:https://ledenews.com/revisiting-cold-cases-in-belmont-county-part-1/ https://ledenews.com/revisiting-cold-cases-in-belmont-county-part-2/ 00:00 - Previously On1:03 - Part 0: Play Nice or Don't Play At All6:09 - Part 1: "I'll Do My Best"13:38 - Part 2: Talking Behind Bars18:01 - Part 3: Omar... Again23:37 - Part 4: Just Call Rico28:03 - Part 5: Open and Active35:24 - Part 6: Better Late Than Never37:45 - Next Time38:17 - Credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.5	Previously on Ice Cold Case.
0:36.3	I don't know.
0:37.3	It blew my mind.
0:38.3	I was glad to see him home, but now he's not the same.
0:41.3	He's not the same person.
0:43.3	They all snitching, they mommas and daddys who snitching, everybody snitching.
0:52.3	Duncan and Darrell's been performance for years.
0:57.0	I think primarily it is because they get in trouble themselves
1:02.0	and they're looking for a way to help through current situation.
1:05.0	I don't snitch, I don't do, I've had all kinds of cases thrown at me.
1:11.6	Madison, I'm telling you, I feel like, and I've always felt this way.
1:18.6	That voice still sticks in my head.
1:22.6	I truly believe, it down my heart that the spoon is the guy with the red shoe strings, the dirty nails out of the way. The long break. The elephant in the room. You've probably wondered if I gave up. Honestly, I wondered that too. There were days when working on my dad's case
2:03.8	felt like trying to lift a car off my chest. Every lead came with a wave of grief, and every
2:10.3	silence from law enforcement felt like a door slamming shut. There's the obvious challenge of trying
2:16.8	to advocate for my dad in what feels like
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