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A&E and Podcast One bring you cold case files, the Podcast, season seven.

Flushing through Christine's mind is an image of her cousin, Julie Hill.

For most of her life, Christine had believed Julie ran away from home.

Then Christine began to hear family rumors that Julie had actually been murdered.

Families have rumors, okay? Is she alive or is she dead?

It's time to get down to the bottom of it.

The majority of the killings they had occurred, many Apple Secure in North Minneapolis right here.

So these guys deal with it on a daily basis, the phone ring.

And I assume by the way the urgency of the call came in, was there was a homicide.

After six months in jail, Bailey is back on the streets.

And the case slips into the cold files where it will stay for more than 15 years,

until a key piece of evidence turns up in the unwikeliest of places.

There was no other evidence to be found anywhere.

As far as I know, this was definitely the last shot.

On March 15, 1988, Bertha, accompanied by her two puppies,

left their home in the early morning hours to pick up the newspapers.

At around 3 a.m., Bertha pulled into a truck stop and ordered a cup of coffee.

She walked out the door into the dark parking lot and was never seen alive again.

With no evidence and no leads, Bertha's case took a backseat to other active investigations.

And in time, it went cold.

Bob Romaine is a cold case detective with the Garden Grove Police Department.

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