A Deadly Affair / The Sting Operation
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After 19 years, Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed–and the chief suspect is his cheating wife. And a man with a guilty conscience helps Arkansas police to crack a cold case of murder.
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| 0:00.0 | This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. |
| 0:04.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:08.5 | There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. |
| 0:12.7 | Only 1% are ever solved. |
| 0:15.9 | This is one of those rare stories. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you. is one of those rare stories. Well, what do we got? |
| 0:26.9 | Let's take a look at some of these. |
| 0:30.8 | The old Polaroids from 1982. |
| 0:34.5 | Bill Wall and Steve James |
| 0:36.3 | are cold case detectives with the Olathe Police in Kansas. |
| 0:40.6 | In 2001, they pick up the unsolved murder of David Harmon. |
| 0:45.4 | This was a crime when you just look at strictly the picture. |
| 0:48.1 | It doesn't look to you as being anything even closer resembling a robbery or a home invasion. |
| 0:54.1 | I think the detectives were starting to figure that out out that this has got to be a bogus story. |
| 0:59.0 | The bogus story begins with a bump in the night. |
| 1:03.0 | This was the kind of a loud noise that just wakes you from a deep sleep. |
| 1:07.0 | You sit up in the bed, just bolt upright upright and you just look at each other and say, |
| 1:12.3 | what was that? |
| 1:13.6 | It's 2.30 a.m. and Gail Bergstrand awakens to a series of thumps coming from the other side |
| 1:20.1 | of her bedroom wall. |
| 1:21.9 | I told my husband, I said, I'm going to call the police. And he said, well, what are you |
| 1:25.2 | going to tell him that you heard thumping in our neighbor's duplex? And I said, oh, you're right. You know, I can't, I can't do that. |
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