Murder On The Menu
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A young boy is the sole survivor when his family is massacred in their Minnesota home. Two decades later, he helps cold case detectives catch the serial killer responsible.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production. |
| 0:02.9 | Available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | On December 15th, 1978, 11-year-old Billy Hewling hid trembling in his bedroom. |
| 0:21.7 | He could hear gunshots and the screams of his family. |
| 0:25.2 | A stranger had entered his home in Stearns County, Minnesota, |
| 0:28.4 | and began to execute members of the Hewling family. |
| 0:32.0 | Billy waited. |
| 0:33.8 | He waited huddled in a sleeping bag on his bed. |
| 0:37.2 | The stranger shot the sleeping bag twice. |
| 0:41.6 | Billy wasn't hit by the bullets, but he stayed under the covers until the man left. |
| 0:47.4 | When the noises stopped, Billy ran down the stairs and escaped the house. |
| 0:52.2 | He kept running as fast as he could through the dark, freezing woods, |
| 0:55.7 | searching for help. |
| 1:01.2 | From A&E, |
| 1:03.0 | this is cold case files. Billy was able to find help, |
| 1:16.8 | and Jim Costreba, the sheriff of Stearns County, responded to the call. |
| 1:21.1 | He quickly made his way to the house where Billy's family was attacked. |
| 1:24.6 | This is Sheriff Costriba. |
| 1:26.6 | As soon as I opened the door into the porch and stepped in, I could immediately smell |
| 1:30.8 | the smell of gunpowder. And with my flashlight, I was able to see a 12-gauge shotgun |
| 1:39.1 | casing laying on the floor. |
| 1:41.4 | The sheriff then made his way to Alice's room, Billy's mother. |
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