Annie Ross Cold Case Murder Solved - Jim Engen
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Steve sits down with retired Police Captain Jim Engen. Jim takes us through the brutal murder of Annie Ross in 1974 and the cold case that followed for 40 years. When Jim made captain at the La Palma Police Department he re-opened the case and began a vigorous investigation. After many hours, several donated, they were able to finally track down the murderer and arrest him.
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| 0:00.0 | Patricia Ann Ross, known to all of her friends, is Annie, was a female Caucasian born on August 14, |
| 0:09.4 | 1943 in Arizona. Annie was well liked by everyone who knew her. Known to be |
| 0:16.1 | reserved, sometimes quiet but genuinely friendly and thoughtful to everybody she |
| 0:20.6 | knew. Her life came to a tragic end on December 11th 1974 |
| 0:26.0 | after she was violently sodomized and strangled inside her apartment bedroom in La Palma, California. |
| 0:34.0 | This is Things Police See. |
| 0:38.0 | First-Hanna Counts. |
| 0:39.0 | With your host Steve Gold. Jim Ingen, thank you for coming on the podcast again, my man. |
| 0:48.0 | Sure thank. |
| 0:49.0 | Glad to be here with you. |
| 0:50.0 | All right. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm excited to have you back on. |
| 0:52.0 | I kind of knew I was going to have you back on. I kind of knew I was going to have you back on because right |
| 0:55.2 | before we recorded the first interview, you're like the second interview I ever did, right before that |
| 1:00.9 | happened I had overheard a coworker talking with you and they just said in passing, |
| 1:05.0 | hey I saw your crime watch daily. |
| 1:07.0 | It was it was unbelievable. I can't believe that cold case murder. |
| 1:10.0 | Right away I was like all right so this will be, Jim will come on twice and besides that, you're very well liked. |
| 1:17.0 | As guests that I've had, I've got a great response from the listeners and they want more Captain Ingen. So I'm giving the |
| 1:24.8 | listeners what they want and you also have this. This is an incredible cold case |
| 1:29.7 | murder story and I mean it's over 40 years old you're big part one of the lead |
| 1:36.2 | investigators in solving it so it's fascinating I watched the Crime Watch |
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