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Cold Case Files

Cold Ashes

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A house fire claims the lives of a family in rural Oklahoma, and foul play is suspected. Two teenage girls were not found among the charred rubble, and one of their mothers began a decades-long crusade to find out what had happened. Check out our great sponsors! ZocDoc: Go to Zocdoc.com/ccf and download the Zocdoc app for FREE! Cold Case Files is sponsored by BetterHelp! Learn more and save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/coldcase SimpliSafe: Go to simplisafe.com/coldcase and claim a free indoor security camera plus 20% off your order with Interactive Monitoring! Progressive: Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 27 million drivers who trust Progressive!

Transcript

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0:00.0

an A&E original podcast.

0:03.0

This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

0:07.0

Listen or discretion is advised.

0:13.0

Laura was always the one that put her part tree.

0:16.0

Laura, love Christmas.

0:18.0

That year she claimed it was the best one she'd done today.

0:22.0

January came and most people take down her tree.

0:25.0

We decided we were going to leave the tree up till Laura come home.

0:28.0

And then the fine out in your child is disappeared off the face of the earth.

0:33.0

It's like she was never here.

0:35.0

I said I'm one of these that I'm going to find her, no matter what I have to do, to find her.

0:40.0

Whether she be alive or whether she be dead, but she's coming home.

0:44.0

So you can help us or you can get back.

0:48.0

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

0:52.0

Each one is a cold case.

0:54.0

Only 1% are ever solved.

0:57.0

This is one of those rare stories.

1:21.0

It's December 30th 1999 in Welch, Oklahoma.

1:24.0

In Lorraine Bible is waiting for her children to arrive at her workplace in Vanita at 9 a.m.

1:29.0

So they can pick up their dad at his job and go to the dentist.

1:33.0

Her daughter, Larria, spent the night with her best friend Ashley Freeman to celebrate Ashley's 16th birthday.

1:41.0

At 8.40 a.m., Lorraine's son calls to tell her that there is a fire at the Freeman's house.

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