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Cold Case Files

I SURVIVED: If I Go to Sleep, I Might Not Wake Up

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Paul Dennis Reid Jr., a country-star wannabe, spends nights robbing fast food joints and killing innocent workers. One of those workers, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez, recounts the night he faced off with Reid in a stock room and managed to survive.

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0:00.0

An A&E, Original Podcast.

0:03.0

This episode contains descriptions of violence.

0:06.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:09.0

Like, okay, he's got a gun.

0:15.0

He's, he's, obviously he wants the money and I hope he just get the money and go, but it wasn't, it wasn't like that.

0:29.6

In March of 1997, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez was 29 years old and had just moved to Nashville, Tennessee.

0:37.5

I came to Nashville, Tennessee to work with my brothers and cousins and construction.

0:43.7

When I moved to Tennessee, I didn't speak.

0:46.7

It was nothing, no English at all.

0:50.3

It's a few words.

0:52.0

While I was waiting for work in construction with my brothers and cousins,

0:57.0

we used to go to a couple of locks away.

1:00.0

It was at McDonos.

1:01.0

So we used to go for breakfast Sunday morning or Saturday

1:04.9

morning sometimes. And it's one of those days I just I was talking to the manager

1:10.1

in that restaurant and my language in the Spanish because I didn't speak any English in that day.

1:16.0

And I asked him if he's going to application for work and he just say,

1:20.0

yes, you want to work with me, I can teach you how you working here and I can give you an application right now and say yeah it's fine

1:28.0

Jose was put on the evening shift and had only been working there for three days.

1:33.0

He was closing the restaurant with manager Ronald Santiago

1:37.0

and his coworkers Robert Sewell and Andrea Brown.

1:41.0

On the third day, Sunday night, we was working to, I think they close 11. So after 11, we stayed there for another hour probably. I was doing the dishes to leave everything ready for the next day and when we were done

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