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Murder In The Rain

True Crime

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we’re going to explore the unsolved murder of Linda Malcom, a Navy veteran whose body was found engulfed in flames in her Port Orchard, Washington home. Despite multiple leads, the case is still unsolved, but with the help of the right people, it might not stay that way for long. With us today are Jennifer Bucholtz and George Jared who are part of a Cold Case Investigative Team through the American Military University. Jennifer is former US Army Counterintelligence, an instructor in criminal justice and forensic science and works as an investigator for the El Paso County Sheriff's Department. George is an investigative journalist who has written multiple true crime books. The duo have a podcast called Break the Case. Their work contributed to solving another cold case which was featured on one of their earlier seasons of their podcast. Linda’s story is featured in season 3. So we invited them to the show to talk a little bit about how they handle cold cases, and what makes Linda’s case so unique, and solvable.

Episode Host: Emily Rowney

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Jennifer Bucholtz Bio

Jennifer is a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Agent and a decorated veteran of two wars. She holds a bachelor of science in criminal justice, and masters in criminal justice and forensic sciences. Bucholtz has an extensive background in U.S. military and DoD counterintelligence

operations. Jennifer has also worked for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City and Department of State as a law enforcement instructor. She is currently a faculty member and teaches criminal justice and forensic sciences. Additionally, she a criminal investigator for her local Sheriff’s office and host of AMU’s investigative podcast Break the Case.

George Jared Bio

George Jared is a long-term investigative journalist and author of four true crime books and one fiction book. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Lyons University. He has won numerous accolades for his investigative journalism including 11 first-place awards with Associated Press Managing Editors and Arkansas Press Association for investigative journalism, feature writing, spot news, headline writing, and others. He is also the host and producer of the true crime podcast, Diamond State: Murder Board and advisor/investigator for AMU’s Cold Case Investigative Team.

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0:00.0	This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland, and Josh McCullough tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.
0:18.0	Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised. You're going to be. As our listeners know, we discuss all types of cases on murder in the rain.
0:52.8	Some cases are solved with a killer behind bars,
0:55.6	others are solved with a murderer still on the streets
0:58.0	or back on the streets after serving time.
1:00.9	We also spend a lot of episodes talking about unsolved cases, ones that after not making progress on leads slowly fade from the limelight, lose attention from full-time detectives, and go on to become cold cases.
1:14.0	We've really enjoyed the uptick in these types of cases getting solved,
1:18.0	thanks to a new tip or improvements in DNA analysis,
1:21.0	but it doesn't happen very often where we discuss the in-between phase, what goes on when a case becomes cold but isn't solved.
1:29.0	We of course have talked to detectives who explain that they use their free time to look into these cases,
1:34.0	and some police departments are lucky enough to have cold case detectives who aren't just using their free time.
1:39.9	But there are other people out there who dedicate their time to these cases, and I'm really excited that today we get to discuss a little bit about what that's like.
1:49.0	In today's episode, we're going to explore the unsolved murder of Linda Malcolm, a Navy veteran whose body
1:55.8	was found engulfed in flames in her Port Orchard Home. Despite multiple leads, the case is still
2:01.7	unsolved, but with the help of the right people, it may not stay that way for long.
2:07.0	With us today are Jennifer Buchaltz and George Jared, who are part of a cold case investigative team through the American
2:13.7	Military University. Jennifer is former US Army counterintelligence,
2:18.8	an instructor in criminal justice and forensic science, and works as an investigator for the El Paso County Sheriff's
2:24.8	Department. George is an investigative journalist who has written multiple true crime books.
2:30.2	The duo have a podcast called Break the Case. Their work aided in solving another cold case
2:35.9	which was featured on one of the early seasons of their podcast. Linda's story is featured in season
2:41.5	three. So we invited them to the show to talk a little bit about how they
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