A Killer's Dream
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
For over 20 years, Kirsten was haunted by the unsolved murder of her mother when she was eight years old. And while Kirsten's nightmare drove her to keep working with Cold Case detectives and never stop believing her mother's case would be solved, it was someone else's dream - a dream with eerie similarities to the scene of the murder - that would eventually help solve the case.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this podcast one production. |
| 0:02.9 | Available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts and Podcasts. |
| 0:07.9 | Thank you for listening to this podcast one production. |
| 0:11.0 | Available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts and Podcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | An A&E original podcast. |
| 0:27.8 | Have you ever woken up from a dream and gotten lost for a few seconds in that place between asleep and awake? |
| 0:31.7 | You're not sure if the dream is reality or if you're still sleeping? |
| 0:39.0 | Usually it's pretty easy to shake yourself awake and the line between dreams and reality becomes clear. But in San Antonio, Texas, in 1983, that line seemed to blur. |
| 0:44.1 | And one man's dream seemed a little too close to reality. |
| 0:48.1 | He dreamt of a murder. |
| 0:50.0 | Actually, he dreamt of a crime scene, where a woman was assaulted and murdered. |
| 0:55.1 | And the crime scene he dreamed up looked a lot like a real-life murder, where a woman named |
| 0:59.0 | Rachel Kossab was raped and strangled to death. |
| 1:03.5 | For Rachel's daughter, Kristen, who was eight at the time, every day was a waking nightmare. |
| 1:09.4 | Not only was her mother taken from her, but the murderer was also still out there somewhere, |
| 1:14.2 | like a boogeyman waiting in the shadows. |
| 1:16.9 | She lived with a trauma for over 20 years until a resourceful cold case detective and a very |
| 1:21.9 | organized DNA analyst helped bring her nightmare to an end. |
| 1:27.3 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm Brooke, and this story, adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files, |
| 1:36.7 | is told by the luminous Bill Curtis. |
| 1:47.5 | I knew she was killed. I knew she was killed. |
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