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Madison McGee, a 29-year-old film and television producer who's now based in LA is originally from West Virginia.

She's also the creator and host of a podcast, Ice Cold Case, that investigates the murder of her father, John Cornelius McGee.

Madison's dad was murdered in Belmont County, Ohio when she was just six years old.

Only, Madison didn't know that. Growing up, she was told that her

father had passed away after suffering a heart attack. Her parents, they weren't

together at that point, and she and her mother were living several hours

away from Belmont County.

Though she saw her dad regularly, and they spent time together, listening to music, and

attending her soccer games. She was so young back then that her memories are hazy.

And Madison did not see her dad's side of the family often, so the story was something that was maintained until she was a teenager.

It wasn't until she was 16 that Madison discovered her father had been shot and killed in his own home.

It's also where her older half-sister, Alyssa, had been living at the time.

According to E-News, quote, authorities confirmed to local news outlets at the time that

J.C. had been shot at around 630 a.m. at his house in Bridgeport near the Ohio

West Virginia border on July 11, 2002. His then 16-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was home with him and called 911 after finding her dad on the floor,

the front door hanging open, and a knob shaped hole in the wall.

And as Madison reported on her own podcast, one of her cousins had run from the scene and made another 911 call to summon police.

No one was arrested, and Madison learned that the case had gone cold soon after her father's death.

That was the first revelation.

She tried to find out more through internet searches,

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