DNA SPEAKS: A Fatal Path

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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When 14-year-old Nacole Smith is brutally murdered in 1995 on a wooded path in Atlanta, the police and community rally around her mother as she seeks justice. Decades and a second brutal assault later investigators finally reveal Nacole's killer. Progressive - Progressive.com SimpliSafe - Right now, get 20% off any new SimpliSafe system with Fast Protect Monitoring at SimpliSafe.com/COLDCASE There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe

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0:16.6	Hi Cold Case Case listeners, I'm Marissa Pinson and if you're enjoying this show I just want to remind you that episodes of Cold Case Files as well as the A&E Classic Podcast, I Survived, American Justice, and City Confidential are all available ad-free on the new A&E Crime and Investigation channel on Apple Podcast and Apple Plus for just 499 a month or 3999 a year. And now onto the show. This program contains
0:26.0	disturbing accounts of violence and sexual assault. Listen or
0:29.6	discretion is advised.
0:39.0	There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only 1% are ever solved.
0:42.0	This is one of those rare stories.
0:49.0	It's June 7, 1995.
0:50.0	Aquinelia Smith lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her three daughters.
0:56.0	We lived in Landrum Arms Apartments.
0:58.0	It's off of Camleton Road.
1:00.0	It wasn't a very safe neighborhood, but I was a single parent. I was always told it ain't where you live is how you live.
1:10.0	I have three kids, including Nicole. I have an older daughter Nikita, a younger son, Aubrey.
1:18.0	My whole life was my kids.
1:20.0	I lived for them.
1:22.0	Nicole tutored the kids in the neighborhood.
1:24.5	She loved taking care of kids.
1:26.7	Nicole, she wanted to be a pediatrician.
1:30.0	She was graduating from middle school going into high school.
1:34.0	This is Cassandra Bolding, Nicole Smith's best friend.
1:38.0	Nicole wanted to be a major red and the major red other twirlers.
1:42.0	Friday night lights, so everyone would get together. and the Majoret are the twirlers.
1:42.7	Friday night lights, so everyone would get together
1:45.5	and the Majorets would be out front and center.
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