MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 2

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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When Peggy Hettrick’s body was found in an open field in Fort Collins, Colorado, police rushed to the nearest suspect. But clues left behind on Peggy’s body later turn the case upside down, leaving justice undone and multiple victims in the wake of a sloppy investigation. In Part 2, we take a closer look at other viable suspects in Peggy's case, some who were ignored or dismissed by investigators, and others we uncovered ourselves.

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And we are here to bring you part two of Peggy Hedrick's story. This is the story we took out on tour, thanks to Pluto TV and State Farm. And when we left off, Tim had just been exonerated. He won a $10 million judgment after they wrongly not only accused but convicted
0:22.9	him. He spent almost 10 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But when he gets out,
0:29.5	that leaves everyone wondering, who really killed Peggy Hedrick? And in one of Tim's filings,
0:37.0	one of the things his lawyer said is that there were
0:39.4	other viable suspects. And they were not wrong based on our investigation into the case.
0:46.7	So I want to talk about those today.
0:49.7	Music I'm . ... All right. When talking about people we should be looking at, viable potential suspects.
1:30.4	The first that comes up is Peggy's on again, off again, boyfriend Matt Zulner, who was 29 in 1987.
1:41.6	And every detective, I think, has their person, right, that they look into the most.
1:46.1	And for Linda Wheeler, it is Matt.
1:49.1	Now, Ray Martinez, one of the detectives we talked about, who was like first on the scene for Peggy's case last time, he said a lot of people were quick to write Matt off.
1:57.9	Maybe because of his behavior, like he was acting how they expected. Maybe because he had
2:03.5	an alibi. If you remember, Matt said that he had met that woman, maybe Sean. Again, just met her,
2:10.4	didn't even remember her name, but he was with her to last call. Then she's at his place to like
2:15.3	3.3.30 in the morning. And a lot of what you'll see about
2:19.6	Peggy's death is that she died between 1 and 3 a.m., which, yes, Matt would have an alibi.
2:26.6	Except when we got access to a lot of the investigative files, what we realize is in the report
2:33.1	is actually a wider range.
2:35.3	I mean, they settle on one to three.
2:37.3	But the true range of time is between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.
2:42.7	Meaning that there's potentially an hour and a half, two hours that Matt is unaccounted for if she died in those later time frame.
2:51.3	The other thing, which I haven't told anyone yet, been saving this up my sleeve, is that
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