November 16, 1971: Carmen Colon Disappears
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🗓️ 16 November 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Barclays, we're here for the land of football. |
| 0:06.4 | We're here for the Premier League, |
| 0:09.0 | and the Barclays Women's Super League. |
| 0:12.1 | We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. |
| 0:18.0 | We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all. |
| 0:27.6 | Barclays, here for the land of football. Today is Saturday, November 16th, 2019. |
| 0:38.0 | On this day in 1971, 10-year-old Carmen Colon, disappeared after visiting a drugstore in Rochester, New York. |
| 0:48.3 | She was found dead two days later, setting off a string of alliterative killings known as the alphabet murders, |
| 0:58.0 | and the perpetrator is still at large. |
| 1:12.0 | Welcome to today in true crime, a parcast original. |
| 1:13.5 | Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes, |
| 1:16.2 | listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:18.5 | Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13. |
| 1:22.4 | Today we're covering the disappearance of 10 year old |
| 1:25.5 | Carmen Cologne, the first victim in New York's so-called alphabet murders. Let's go back to the afternoon of November 16th, 1971, a little after 4.30 PM. 30 p.m. The pharmacist felt the cold fall air blow into his drugstore as the entry bell chimed. He looked up to snap at the |
| 1:56.4 | dawdling customer to close the door, but he relaxed when he saw it was young Carmen Cologne. |
| 2:04.0 | She had it hard enough. |
| 2:05.8 | It wasn't easy for a little girl to live with her grandparents, much less take care of them. |
| 2:11.5 | No, Carmen didn't need a grumpy pharmacist making her day any tougher. |
| 2:16.9 | He smiled as she came up to the counter, her head barely clearing the display case. |
| 2:23.0 | Regretfully, he informed her that her grandfather's prescription wasn't ready yet. |
| 2:29.7 | Carmen's face fell. |
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