Dead West: Lovers, Lies and Canyon Murder

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1987, 28-year-old Carol Murphy is found dead in a wooded area of Boulder, Colorado. It will take 20 years and a new technology to finally solve her murder.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The following episode contains intensely disturbing accounts of violence.
0:04.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.9	My sister Carol just always was funny and had something quick to say.
0:14.4	Carol loved the beautiful nature that's here in Colorado.
0:19.8	Carol had been found in the mountains murdered by someone unknown.
0:26.6	I never understood why.
0:30.6	This looked like something very calculated and premeditated.
0:36.6	What level of hate must you have in order calculated and premeditated.
0:42.4	What level of hate must you have in order to do that?
0:48.6	It felt like a knife to the heart that we'll never know who really did it.
0:52.4	We had to find those missing puzzle pieces.
0:55.9	We have to get it right for that family.
0:58.3	I wanted to look into his eyes.
1:01.3	I really wanted to know the answers.
1:07.1	There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.
1:13.6	Only about 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories. It's August 31st, 2023. For the first time in 36 years, Canya Parker and Conraea
1:25.6	Archer visit the canyon in Colorado where their sister Carol Murphy was murdered.
1:31.3	This is where, this is it, huh?
1:36.0	That's the area that she was found.
1:40.0	Miss you and love you, Carol.
1:44.6	This should never happened to her.
1:48.4	This should have never happened to her.
	...

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