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Murder In The Rain

True Crime

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1997, the quaint little city of Selah, Washington, was shocked to learn that one of their own, Carolyn Clift, was found dead inside her own residence, the victim of a particularly brutal stabbing. Despite multiple eyewitnesses who had heard a disturbance and even glimpsed a potential suspect fleeing the scene, the investigation languished into a cold case. However, a breakthrough occurred providing crucial information that would ultimately crack the case wide open.

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0:00.0	This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland and Josh McCullough tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.
0:17.0	Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised. You're going to be.
0:33.0	You know?
0:35.0	You know? You know?
0:37.0	You know?
0:38.0	You know?
0:40.0	You know? You know? You're going to. CELA is a city that is often described as a picturesque tight-knit community located in the
1:01.7	Yakima Valley of Central Washington.
1:04.6	It's not the kind of place where really bad things happen, or so most of us think of the small
1:10.1	idyllic towns that we hail from. But Cyla does sound fabulous. With just over 8,000 people,
1:16.8	it's easy to imagine tight-knit is an accurate description. In fact, in the early 2000, Cylila was in the media showing us just how close the community actually was.
1:27.0	A local couple, Doug and Bronwyn-Mayo, discovered the fossil of a mammoth on their property and turned it into an opportunity
1:35.2	to inspire kids in their community to embrace learning and the sciences.
1:40.0	The Wannas Mammoth Foundation was created to protect the mammoth site and provide education on archaeology, paleontology, and geology.
1:49.0	While the excavation was in progress, they even asked local kids to participate in a mammoth
1:54.6	naming contest and the winning name was Colombo.
1:58.9	We often talk about cities where cases take place and what they're known for, like Portland, a city with a thousand
2:04.6	nicknames, and each is very descriptive from things like our coffee to our bridges.
2:10.0	CELA has one unique nickname and it doesn't have to do with mammoths.
2:14.0	It has to do with what they're primarily known for.
2:17.0	Cela is known as the apple juice capital of the world.
2:21.0	Wow.
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