Kelly Cook: The Back-up Babysitter - Part 1

Crime Beat

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this episode of Crime Beat, crime reporter Nancy Hixt tells the story of Kelly Cook, a young girl who was abducted from Standard, Alta., 38 years ago. Kelly had taken a job babysitting someone new — and then, she was gone. Her body was found June 28, 1981 in an irrigation canal south of Taber. Investigators said it was obvious someone had gone through a lot of work to make sure Kelly would never be found, but a drought in the area had lowered the water level and revealed her weighed-down body. The case turned into a homicide investigation and the manhunt for a killer began. Join Nancy Hixt as she takes you through the abduction and murder of Kelly Cook: what leads investigators have looked at and why it’s become a cold case. If you enjoy Crime Beat, please take a minute to rate it on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts, tell us what you think and share the show with your friends. Contact: Twitter: @nancyhixt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/ Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.4	content of a violent and disturbing nature.
0:49.3	Listener discretion is advised. Think back to the very first time you ever heard about a crime.
1:02.0	Can you think of one? How old were you? I was five and I'll never forget it.
1:10.0	It's burned into my brain. That's when a young girl vanished from a small town in southern Alberta just 30 minutes away from me.
1:21.0	I had nightmares as a child of being kidnapped, lots of us do. So when this actually
1:28.1	happened, so close to my house, this was my worst fear come to life. I grew up on a cattle farm about
1:37.5	an hour northeast of Calgary, and when this happened, this was all anyone was talking about. I also remember there were search parties,
1:47.4	massive search parties. My dad was a member of a Rural crime watch group called the Range Patrol, and he was one of hundreds of people who volunteered to help search.
2:00.0	Everyone knew the young girl's name because of the unbelievably common scenario that led to her disappearance.
2:09.0	The girl had simply taken a job babysitting someone knew.
2:15.0	And then she was gone.
2:17.0	But our path, really, in life changed that day.
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