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Cold Case Files

Brooke's Top 10: The Weepy-Voiced Killer

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Women are being murdered in Minnesota's twin cities, and police are desperate to catch the murderer who keeps calling to confess his crimes. Get online therapy at an affordable price with TALKSPACE. Get $100 off your first month by using code COLDCASE at www.talkspace.com OR download the TALKSPACE app! Love your cat? Make the switch to PrettyLitter! Go to www.PrettyLitter.com and use promo code "COLDCASE" for 20% off your first order!

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0:00.0

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0:07.8

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0:14.2

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0:17.3

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0:22.4

On New Year's Eve in 1980 Karen Potak a student at the University of Wisconsin

0:33.6

celebrated with her sister in Minnesota's Twin Cities

0:36.5

The girls were both celebrating on University Avenue which runs the stretch between St. Paul and Minneapolis

0:43.6

They'd gotten separated a little earlier on the night, but they didn't let that stop them from enjoying the evening

0:49.7

When the clock struck midnight the festivities slowed down and Karen decided to call it a night

0:56.0

At around 3 a.m. The St. Paul police received this call

1:02.9

Here's please this is an emergency police and a squadron just on the road

1:09.2

Mom made many breaks. They got the machine shop

1:12.1

Please the ambulance to it is a girl

1:19.2

The back

1:30.5

From Annie this is cold case files

1:38.4

Officers responded to the call and found Karen in the snowbank near some railroad tracks

1:43.7

She was naked badly beaten and her skull had been cracked

1:48.2

Karen survived but was cognitively impaired and she had no memory of who had tried to kill her

1:55.2

In June of 1981 the same weepy voice was on the other end of a 911 call

2:01.2

We have

2:02.2

You find me I just asked somebody with an ace?

2:05.8

Can I get stuck myself? I can't come in somebody

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