A Son's Memory
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 26 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 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Children have brains like sponges. They absorb information in the world around them faster than an adult. |
| 0:23.6 | Children aren't afraid to tell the truth to spare someone's feelings, but oftentimes their statements are dismissed as unreliable. |
| 0:28.6 | Children are also impressionable, and their memories can be easily manipulated by adults who feed them information. |
| 0:37.9 | Dustin Cunningham was a nine-year-old child |
| 0:40.3 | when his stepfather started feeding him lies |
| 0:42.7 | about his mother's disappearance. |
| 0:46.2 | He knew deep down that she hadn't just disappeared, |
| 0:49.8 | that she had actually been murdered. |
| 0:56.1 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm Brooke, and here's the iconic Bill Curtis |
| 1:02.2 | with a classic case, a son's memory. |
| 1:14.6 | This is the missing persons unit of the Polk County Sheriff's Office. These are some of my old cases. |
| 1:17.6 | Ruth Hodges works for Polk County, Florida. |
| 1:20.6 | And she was 24 years of age when she disappeared. |
| 1:24.6 | Her specialty, missing people everyone else has forgotten. |
| 1:29.3 | Fred Wright was 76 years of age. |
| 1:32.3 | Cynthia Robinson disappeared. |
| 1:35.3 | Clifton Patrick Leonard. |
| 1:37.3 | No one knows what has happened to him. |
| 1:40.3 | Among the hundreds of names, hundreds of faces, |
| 1:46.8 | one in particular catches Haj's eye, |
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