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Forensic Files

Cold Hearted

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired May 16, 2019. When a young fireman died from what appeared to be serious but undiagnosed heart disease, his family and friends were devastated but they had no proof of foul play. Then they learned that, six years earlier in a nearby town, a young police officer died in the same way. The men had one thing in common: At the time of their deaths, they were married to the same woman.

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0:00.0

A young farmer's untimely death raised suspicions. When a young policeman died and for Randy Thompson, was particularly troublesome.

0:38.3

First, he fell off a fire truck in calming Georgia and broke his nose.

0:43.4

When he had surgery to repair the damage, he developed a life-threatening staff infection.

0:49.5

The doctors told him this is a very, very serious situation.

0:54.0

You can die from this very easily.

0:56.9

Randy survived that, but his health problems continued.

1:02.2

One of his friends found him sprawled on his kitchen floor, vomiting and incoherent.

1:08.4

He started hallucinating.

1:10.1

He looked at him and he said,

1:11.2

get back in your damn cage.

1:13.1

I said, what are you talking about, Randy?

1:15.1

I said, get in your cage.

1:17.2

Then I realized he thought he was talking to his bird.

1:20.7

This was diagnosed as a severe stomach virus.

1:25.1

But gradually, he improved,

1:26.9

thanks to help from his common law wife Lynn.

1:30.3

Every time I talked to him, he said, I'm stronger and stronger.

1:33.3

And he said, Lynn made me grilled cheese with sweet tea. He said, I held it down, didn't throw it up.

1:39.3

I said, well, good, right now, so that's good. So maybe you're on the uphill slide of this.

1:51.1

Two days later, his condition deteriorated, and Randy Thompson died.

1:52.2

Horrible.

1:55.4

A daddy taken from his children for no reason.

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