This episode is brought to you by Shopify. With Shopify, 2026 is the year you make it happen. It gives you the tools to build your dream store, online and in person. Plus with marketing built in, it'll help you reach exactly who you need to. Join the millions who've already made the leap, like Jim Shark and all birds, and ring in the new year with Shopify.

Sign up for your £1 per month trial at Shopify.com.uk.

Previously this season on Ice Cold Case.

Belmont County 911, what's your emergency?

That's all they were doing. Drug dealers, rolling drug dealers, knowing the victims weren't going to call.

I mean, a lot of people didn't like your dad because he was a snitch.

He didn't tell it to tell us.

There was no way I was going to be able to, you know, sugarcoat this.

Man, you know I didn't do this, man. What the? Dang, you want to kill somebody? Do it in Belmont County. I don't know what happened. It was an inside job. That's what everyone always said. It was an inside job. Hello. You have a prepaid call from... Rico, McKee. I was like, you know, that. Like, they didn't want to solve the murder or not.

You know, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

You didn't think that's a show, huh?

Well, I've never expected to hear from you, ever in my whole life.

I've heard different things, it was his own gun.

Oh, you don't know he killed his uncle?

Oh, everybody knows.

You know? You don't know he killed his uncle? Oh, everybody knows.

I've spent the last few weeks reflecting on how I felt when I started investigating the murder of my father, John Cornelius McGee. In the beginning, even just saying that phrase, murder of my father the murder of my father John Cornelius McGee. In the beginning,

even just saying that phrase, murder of my father, felt like a fever dream. That didn't happen to me.

That isn't my life. I saw myself as an audience member in my own story, completely disconnected

from the weight of it all. I was watching from the outside, keeping a safe

distance, because if I stayed far enough away, maybe it would never feel real. My dad's murder was not just

unsolved. It was a cold case. No new leads, no new information for nearly 20 years. There was so little movement surrounding the case,

...