A Husband's Secret

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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After the murder of Barbara Jean Galliher goes cold investigators are left with few options. Almost three decades later, after being caught in a compromising situation by his wife and admitting to a sex addiction, Donald Vanderbent has something else he wants to get off his chest. Progressive - Progressive.com SimpliSafe - Right now, get 20% off any new SimpliSafe system with Fast Protect Monitoring at SimpliSafe.com/COLDCASE There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe

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0:00.0	Hi Cold Case Case listeners, I'm Marissa Pinson and before we get to this week's episode, I just wanted to remind you that episodes of Cold Case Files as well as the A&E Classic Podcasts, I Survived, American Justice, and City Confidentialidential are all available ad-free on the new A&E Crime and
0:16.4	Investigation channel on Apple Podcast and Apple Plus for just 499 a month or 3999 a year. And now on to the show. This program contains
0:27.2	subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:29.6	Listen or discretion is advised. From A&E, this is cold case files, the podcast. On the evening of August 15th 1970, in the dusty town of Sed, Missouri, Helen Gallagher is worried.
0:55.0	Her daughter-in-law, Barbara Jean Gallagher, is not picking up her phone.
1:00.0	Helen knows the newlywed is alone in the house. Her husband Stephen is stationed in the military
1:05.1	overseas. So why does the phone continue to ring? And where is Barbara Jean? Finally, Helen
1:12.4	walks one block to her daughter-in-law's house and lets herself in.
1:16.5	A few minutes later, Helen calls the local police department.
1:20.8	Barbara Jean Galahire is dead and a murder investigation begins.
1:25.8	Pettis County Sheriff Emmett Fairfax takes up the case.
1:29.8	We had a body laying in the living room floor with things scattered around.
1:35.0	Barbara's hair had been on rollers and there was rollers in
1:39.0	different places in the room so there had been somewhat of a struggle there.
1:42.0	Barbara Jean's shirt is ripped open. in the room so there had been somewhat of a struggle there.
1:43.2	Barbara Jean's shirt is ripped open, her shorts half sipped.
1:47.4	Her neck shows scratch marks and there is blood caked around her mouth.
1:51.8	Strong indications the victim might have been strangled.
1:55.4	Close by the body is a note printed in block letters, apparently left by
1:59.3	Gallagher's killer. Well it was kind of a misleading note. I told you to stay away from him. So it was a little bit of a mystery.
2:09.0	To police, the note would seem to imply it was written by a woman who perhaps fought with a victim over a man.
2:15.2	Details on the note are kept secret from the public. The media, however, does get a look at the body.
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