Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One.

Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One.

It's adulthood. And so did the fact that a sister's murder would go and solve for nearly 30 years.

But someone else in Prairie Village would also spend 30 years living with a haunting secret,

another victim who buried her childhood trauma and never told a soul about the man who assaulted her,

a woman who holds the key to both crimes.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files The Podcast.

I'm Brooke. And this story, adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files,

is told by the exceptional Bill Curtis.

I had done a cannonball off the side of the pool and I accidentally ran into her.

So she was upset. And she had told me that she was going to go home and tell mom and dad

and that I was going to get in trouble.

It's the summer of 1974. John Wilson is 11 years old. His sister, Elizabeth, 13.

So I went out to the middle of the parking lot and I heard my name. She called out my name John.

I turned around and looked and she was running my way.

John Wilson runs through the parking lot, ducks around the corner of a local high school and waits for his sister.

I was going to jump out and scare her and try to make a last minute deal with her not to tell mom and dad.

And she never came by. Never came by.

With no sign of Liz, John runs the four blocks home and waits.

The minutes turn into hours and still Liz is a no show.

Our rule was when the street lights come on, you better be in your yard.

And we never once broke that rule. And so we knew something was terribly wrong.

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