Expert Witness

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This episode originally aired March 28, 2019. The killer was meticulous, washing everything at the scene, including the victim's body. The only definitive evidence was a single foreign hair. Three years later he struck again and, this time, what he left behind would prove he committed both crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Up next, a killer seemingly gets away with murder.
0:05.8	It was probably the cleanest crime scene as a detective I'd ever been handed.
0:10.2	He took everything with him.
0:12.0	For years, the case went cold.
0:14.0	Then he struck again.
0:16.0	Someone just got my health that wrecked me.
0:18.8	Okay, do you know who it was?
0:19.9	No.
0:20.8	He had selected me and planned it.
0:22.9	While the killer may have gone dormant, science did not.
0:26.9	My jaw dropped when he told me the name.
0:29.2	I was floored.
0:30.5	I was just floored.
0:31.9	Clearly, DNA made this case.
0:33.6	It not only identified the suspect in the case, but it exonerated someone else.
0:38.3	When Tammy Tatum first met Jim Meadow in Longmont, Colorado, they were instantly attracted to one another.
0:56.1	It wasn't long before the two moved in together and decided to start a family.
1:01.6	What Tammy wanted most in life was to be a wife and a mother.
1:06.2	Tammy gave birth to a healthy baby girl they named Sadie.
1:11.5	But soon after the baby's arrival, the couple's life took a downward turn.
1:17.7	Jim Meadow had a major substance abuse issue.
1:21.5	He would get drunk and get into scrapes.
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