A Son's Memory
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A mother of three goes missing on Christmas eve in 1994, and suspicion surrounds her sudden disappearance. In 2004, her case is still unsolved, until her son opens up about a memory that’s been buried for a decade.
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| 0:00.0 | Children have brains like sponges. |
| 0:08.6 | They absorb information in the world around them faster than an adult. |
| 0:13.1 | Children aren't afraid to tell the truth to spare someone's feelings, but oftentimes |
| 0:17.1 | their statements are dismissed as unreliable. |
| 0:21.6 | Children are also impressionable, and the memories can be easily manipulated by adults who |
| 0:26.1 | feed them information. Dustin Funningham was a nine-year-old child when his stepfather |
| 0:33.2 | started feeding him lies about his mother's disappearance. |
| 0:38.6 | He knew deep down that she hadn't just disappeared, that she had actually been murdered. |
| 0:48.4 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files. I'm Brooke, and here's the iconic Bill Curtis with |
| 0:54.5 | a classic case, a son's memory. |
| 1:03.5 | This is the Missing Persons Unit of the Pope County Sheriff's Office. These are some |
| 1:07.8 | of my old cases. Ruth Hodges works for Pope County Florida. |
| 1:13.6 | And she was 24 years of age when she disappeared. |
| 1:17.3 | Her specialty? Missing people, everyone else has forgotten. |
| 1:21.6 | Fred Wright was 76 years of age. Cynthia Robinson disappeared. Clifton Patrick Leonard. |
| 1:30.1 | No one knows what has happened to him. |
| 1:33.0 | Among the hundreds of names, hundreds of faces, one in particular catches Hodges' eye. |
| 1:39.7 | The Missing Persons file on Andrea Boyette. |
| 1:46.3 | She was reported missing around Christmas Eve of 94. She allegedly just up and disappeared |
| 1:57.0 | because there was some argument or something, and then allegedly according to her husband, |
| 2:01.5 | she walked away. |
| 2:03.7 | What woman that cares for her children is going to go off right on Christmas Eve and |
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