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Coffee and Cases Podcast

FROM THE VAULT: Cecil Gaddy

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7639 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Due to a tragic circumstance when he was sixteen, Cecil Gaddy knew loss, and he learned to be resilient. But no amount of inner strength could have saved him from the circumstances in which he found himself only three years later-- circumstances that resulted in his untimely death. Even though Cecil Gaddy’s death was ruled an accident, odd details of the crime scene and confusing details on the death certificate make us realize that this case deserves a second look. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.6

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0:15.3

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0:18.4

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0:24.7

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0:32.0

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0:39.4

I want to begin today's episode by giving recognition to a woman you may have never heard of.

0:46.9

Her name is Jody Ewing.

0:49.2

She had been a reporter for many years for a Sioux City, Iowa newspaper

0:53.6

when her editor gave her an assignment

0:55.9

that would change the trajectory of her life. He asked her to begin writing about Iowa's cold

1:02.5

cases. To say that Jody Ewing took her assignment seriously would be an understatement. An article

1:09.8

about her in the Des Moines Register by Mike Killen tells us that Ms. Ewing eventually became so bent on helping achieve justice in each case that she sleeps little, began the Iowa Cold Case's website, keeps record of her growing case files, makes her search for answers

1:30.7

her full-time job, sometimes working up to 16 hours a day, and speaks almost exclusively of the

1:39.5

cases that she researches.

1:42.0

Reporter Killen interviewed Ewing's sister Kim Barron's in 2018, who had this to say about her

1:48.8

sister Jody's mission.

1:50.7

Quote, I've never seen her have this kind of passion for anything else.

1:55.6

This is all she's known for 10 years.

1:58.4

If you go to her house for coffee, she goes through the pile of cases

2:02.8

and starts telling us about them. To be honest, I ask her, can we talk about something besides

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