Eyes at the Window
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The community is shocked when nursing student Jana Reynolds is raped and murdered. Without DNA testing available the case goes cold, but when the killer strikes again a detective with a hunch puts the pieces together.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One |
| 0:15.7 | Jana Reynolds was 22 years old in 1988 |
| 0:19.3 | She was a newlywed her husband Jeff had been her high school sweetheart |
| 0:23.6 | The couple lived in Mount Vernon, Illinois |
| 0:25.6 | where Jana was attending nursing school to become a registered nurse and she was working part-time as a licensed practical nurse |
| 0:32.9 | Jeff worked full-time at the Bindray Department at a printing company |
| 0:37.0 | Friends and family of the couple described them as really happy they had never seen Jana and Jeff argue |
| 0:43.8 | On the night of May 5th Jeff worked the late shift meaning Jana was on her own for the night |
| 0:49.2 | A little after midnight on May 6th a neighbor reported hearing noises coming from the Reynolds home |
| 0:56.1 | They said it sounded like a door being kicked in or doors being slammed around |
| 1:03.0 | When Jeff arrived home at around 7 30 a.m. on the morning of the 6th Janice car was in the carport. She hadn't left her school |
| 1:11.5 | Jeff walked into the house |
| 1:13.5 | And then ran back out and the neighbors reported hearing a different sound Jeff screaming hysterically |
| 1:20.1 | Because Jana had been murdered |
| 1:24.1 | From A&E this is cold case files. I'm Brooke and here's the prestigious Bill Curtis with a classic case eyes of the window |
| 1:37.8 | Stop by my parents place |
| 1:39.8 | picked up a boat and a buddy of mine was with me and we went by my house because I wanted to change change shoes |
| 1:46.8 | In 1988 Jeff Reynolds is 24 nearly married to his high school sweetheart Jana |
| 1:54.3 | And her car was under the carport |
| 1:57.4 | Thought nothing of it |
| 1:59.4 | walked in |
| 2:01.0 | Notice the back door had been broken into and walked in and hollered for |
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