How Madison McGhee Is Solving Her Dad’s Ice Cold Case

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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2002 - Bridgeport, Ohio In July 2002, 45-year-old John Cornelius “JC” McGhee was gunned down in the doorway of his home in Bridgeport, Ohio, just across the river from West Virginia. The case drew little attention at the time—and quickly slipped from the headlines. Now, decades later, his daughter, Madison McGhee, is demanding answers. Through her investigative podcast, Ice Cold Case, she’s shining a spotlight on her father’s unsolved murder, exposing the skeletons in her own family’s closet, and challenging a community that may hold long-buried secrets—and the name of a killer—to finally come forward. If you have any information on the murder of JC MCGhee, please contact the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office at (740) 695-5124. Episode sources and photos: https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/madison-mcghee Support Murder, She Told: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.murdershetold.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murdershetold.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ----- Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetoldpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/mstpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last year, my friend Laura Norton and I were asked to participate in a panel put on by Tenderfoot TV.
0:07.9	It was hosted by the amazing Jamie Albright, who brought us together with Madison McGee,
0:13.1	who had recently released a podcast called Ice Cold Case about the unsolved murder of her dad.
0:18.7	John Cornelius McGee, who went by J.C., was 45 when he was shot and killed
0:23.6	in July of 2002 in his home in Ohio, not far from the border of West Virginia. His case received
0:29.9	little media attention until Madison started digging in, and she dug deep. Ice cold case
0:37.0	is a compassionate and candid look at the family secrets we swallow and the skeletons we hide away.
0:43.5	It's about family, justice, and a ruthless pursuit of the truth.
0:49.0	I'm Kristen Ceevey, and this is my conversation with Madison McGee on Murder She Told.
1:13.3	My name's Madison McGee.
1:21.1	I'm a producer-director based in Los Angeles, California, and I also am the host of a podcast called Ice Cold Case, where I am investigating the unsolved murder of my dad, John Cornelius
1:27.0	McGee. And yeah, that's me in a byline.
1:31.5	So you are already working in the entertainment industry when you decided to do your own podcast.
1:37.3	Was this something that you'd been chewing on for a while? Or did you have more like an
1:41.2	epiphany moment? A little bit of both. I mean, it was definitely something that I was like,
1:45.1	oh, one day I'll maybe make something about my own story, my own life. Then also as I got further and
1:52.8	further in and started making more connections and learning a little bit more about how things worked,
1:57.6	I definitely had this moment of like, oh, I could totally do something like this.
2:02.0	And it was supposed to initially be a documentary because of my background more in like the
2:07.3	visual film and TV side. But it's really hard to fund projects like that and also to get people
2:15.0	affiliated with cold cases, especially the nature of my dads, to talk on camera.
2:21.5	So without the resources to be able to provide some sort of incentive for them to, like,
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