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Cold Case Files

A Deadly Affair / The Sting Operation

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K 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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Transcript

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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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