A Crime Before Christmas

48 Hours

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3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On December 22, 1990, sisters Linae and Tricia Tiede were held hostage by two men when their family was spending Christmas at their Utah cabin. Their mother, father, and grandmother were shot and the two men planned to burn the house down. The sisters owe their survival to their heroic father, Rolf. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 3/9/2013. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My family owns a beautiful cabin in Oakley, Utah.
0:19.0	The sound of the river, the horses that are down in the pasture, the birds, it's absolutely
0:27.8	heaven on earth to me.
0:30.5	My mom had given it a name, Tita's Tranquility, because of the serenity and peace.
0:40.3	The cabin was an awesome place to go to.
0:44.3	As a young child, I loved going up there, bringing aunts and uncles and cousins.
0:49.3	The cabin was about two and a half miles off the road.
0:57.2	You have to snowmobile in during the wintertime.
1:00.8	It was an escape from the world for our family.
1:05.5	It was winter of 1990.
1:07.8	I was 20 years old and my little sister was 16.
1:11.6	It was Christmas time.
1:15.6	We're off for the holidays.
1:17.6	There's a large Christmas tree with lots of gifts around it.
1:21.6	I have great memories of spending Christmas with my mom and dad.
1:25.6	My mom even had our Christmas stockings hung under the fireplace mantel,
1:29.3	ready for Santa to come.
1:33.3	Three days before Christmas,
1:34.3	our family had to finish up our Christmas shopping
1:37.3	and head back up to our family cabin.
1:41.3	My mom and Grams and I arrived at the cabin first, and my hands were freezing.
1:47.0	It was a bitter cold winter that year.
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