Cold Case: Office Fridge Food Theft Edition (Reheat)

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s Elkhart, Indiana, 2001. Two inches of Heather Coleman's turkey club disappear from her office fridge. The thief is nowhere to be found. And Heather’s life will never be the same. In this tribute to the hit podcast Serial, we investigate the shocking true story of an office fridge food theft.

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0:00.0	Serious XM Podcasts.
0:10.0	Hey, this is Dan here with another sportful reheat for you, and I am especially excited because this is one of my all-time favorite sporkful episodes.
0:19.7	Top five for sure.
0:21.1	And this one is a little different.
0:22.9	It is a little silly.
0:24.1	It is a little weird.
0:25.2	It's a parody, a satire of the hit podcast serial.
0:29.2	Remember it was like the first viral podcast.
0:31.2	It sort of launched the true crime podcast genre.
0:34.6	And I decided I wanted to do a parody of cereal in which we investigated a food-related
0:41.2	true crime story. And let me tell you, we found a doozy. Now, this was back when I did the show
0:47.4	at WNYC, when Anne Sannie produced the show with me. You'll also hear her in this episode,
0:52.4	and I think you're going to find it's a
0:54.2	gripping tale. As always, if you have a certain Sportful episode you want us to reheat, drop me a line.
0:59.9	Tell me your first name, your location, what episode you want to hear and why. Shoot that to
1:04.7	hello at sporkful.com. Thanks and enjoy.
1:13.1	This is a global tell link prepaid call from Heather Coleman.
1:19.0	Why not eat the whole sandwich?
1:20.8	And this was not about food whatsoever. This was about sex.
1:23.6	It all accommodated with me going slightly insane.
1:27.3	This is the sporkful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.
1:31.4	Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.
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