REOPENED: A Child Remembers

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Cold Case Files follows Detective Manny Reyes as he works two cases. First, Detective Reyes investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman, which hinges on a 2-year-old witness. Then, as Reyes closes in on a suspect, he is pulled onto a second case involving a known serial killer. The clock is ticking as Detective Reyes works to bring both cases to a close.

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	That's audible.co.uk slash Wondery.
0:12.0	An A&E original podcast.
0:15.0	This episode contains descriptions of violence. Use your best judgment.
0:30.2	In 1990, Jane Thompson was 30 years old and a single mother of two young boys,
0:37.8	VAL, age 14, and Josh, age 2. She'd recently graduated from the American Trade Institute and was working as a lab technician in Fort Worth, Texas.
0:42.7	In 2006, on VAL's last day of school,
0:46.6	Jane instructed him to take the bus to his grandparents' house
0:49.2	and wait for her to pick him up there.
0:51.7	Then, Jane, Josh, and Josh's father, Bobby Woods, left together to run
0:57.7	some errands. Jane and Woods were no longer a couple, but kept in touch because of Josh, and also
1:04.6	because of the fact that Jane didn't drive. When Jane didn't arrive at her parents' home to pick up VAL, Daisy Thompson, Jane's
1:13.6	mother, reported her missing.
1:17.6	Daisy said that Jane was very dependable and a devoted mother, so she suspected that something
1:23.6	bad had happened. And she was right.
1:27.7	On June 9th, a man looking for aluminum cans
1:31.2	found Jane's body behind a grocery store dumpster in Fort Worth.
1:37.6	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.
1:40.7	I'm Brooke, and here's the legend Bill Curtis,
1:43.9	with a classic case case a child remembers.
1:51.0	Let me say if I got you some invoice numbers in there.
1:54.0	From a pile under his desk, Fort Worth Detective Manny Reyes pulls out a murder file.
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