Jonelle Matthews

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On December 20th, 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was abducted from her sleepy neighborhood north of Denver. Despite extensive searches and a national push for answers her case went cold... until it wasn't. Tune in for Who Killed Jonelle Matthews? If you'd like to support this show directly, you can do so by donating via the Venmo app with my name @bill-huffman-3. Thank you for your continued support. For more information about this case and to stay up to date on the trial starting in October I recommend following me on Twitter @billhuffman3. Thank you for listening! SOURCES: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85783869/ https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2021/02/03/jonelle-matthews-murder-accused-killer-pleads-not-guilty-trial-set/4354316001/ https://account.idahostatesman.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=234982707&intcid=ab_archive New trial date set for man accused of killing Jonelle Matthews ...https://www.coloradoan.com › story › news › 2021/06/23 Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985 https://web.archive.org/web/20190727044806/https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/crime/jonelle-matthews-disappearance-anniversary-timeline-of-events/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85787267/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85787458/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRhg9G5D_hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-REzgZGaY&t=5s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media and Bill Huffman present, Who Killed?
0:04.0	A podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.
0:07.0	34 years later, and it is still unclear what happened to Janelle Matthews.
0:12.0	Police say nobody has ever been found, no suspect ever arrested,
0:16.0	but they're not giving up and tell us modern tools, among other things,
0:20.0	might help them solve this case.
0:23.7	Taped to the front door of the Greeley Police Department is a new missing person poster.
0:28.6	But the case of 12-year-old Janelle Matthews is decades older than even this building.
0:33.3	The possibility that something will come forward, we have to just keep trying.
0:40.0	Janelle was a seventh grader in 1984.
0:42.4	It just finished a Christmas choir performance.
0:44.9	Police said a friend and the friend's father dropped Janelle off at her house.
0:48.9	About an hour later, her family came home, but Janelle was gone.
0:52.8	Her shoes left behind, the front door open, the television still on.
0:57.0	It has.
0:58.0	Sergeant Joseph Timkowicz was a young officer back then.
1:00.0	There was all hands-on-deck call, and just about anybody and everybody who would respond
1:06.0	to a phone call or could respond to a phone call was called in throughout the night and the rest of the day.
1:13.1	Days became years and a decade later.
1:16.6	Janelle's family told reporters they believe she'd been kidnapped and killed.
1:20.8	The community said their official goodbye.
1:23.1	You had 12 years of light.
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