A Dawn to Remember
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
3.8 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
When 18-year-old model Dawn Koons heads to California with dreams of stardom, her family back in Yonkers worry she's made a mistake. After her body is found in her bathtub, police have a suspect but unmasking her killer takes nearly 40 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Cold Case listeners. I'm Marissa Pinson, and if you're enjoying this show, I just want to |
| 0:04.4 | remind you that episodes of Cold Case Files, as well as the A&E Classic Podcasts, I Survived, |
| 0:10.0 | American Justice, and City Confidential are all available ad-free on the new A&E Crime and |
| 0:15.9 | Investigation channel on Apple Podcasts and Apple Plus for just $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year. And now onto the show. |
| 0:24.5 | The following episode contains disturbing accounts of physical and sexual violence. Listener |
| 0:30.0 | discretion is advised. Both my brother and I were puzzled by the attraction. |
| 0:38.1 | We didn't see what she was seeing. |
| 0:40.8 | There was a lot of back and forth with accusations and jealousy and things of that nature. |
| 0:46.4 | She was interested in pursuing modeling and a career in show business. |
| 0:53.6 | She was posed in a very sexually demeaning way. |
| 0:58.0 | The news was surreal. |
| 1:00.0 | You couldn't wrap your mind around it. |
| 1:03.0 | We knew he had lied to investigators about his whereabouts that weekend. |
| 1:07.0 | None of your business. |
| 1:09.0 | And that he was armed and dangerous. |
| 1:13.6 | I mean, after all, she was only 18 years old. |
| 1:17.9 | There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. |
| 1:21.3 | Only about 1% are ever solved. |
| 1:23.7 | This is one of those rare stories. |
| 1:38.9 | It's January 16, 1979, a cool, crisp evening in California's southern San Joaquin Valley when a frantic call comes into the police. |
| 1:41.5 | Brad Rourke is a retired sergeant with the Bakerfield Police Department. |
| 1:46.0 | I've been a patrol officer for just over a year. And I was dispatched with another officer |
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