REOPENED: A Cousin's Promise
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On a fall day in 1978, an apartment manager in Reynoldsburg, Ohio takes a call. On the other end of the line is a frantic tenant who says water is pouring out of her ceiling. The super calls a maintenance man who forces his way into the apartment above, to try to find the leak. He makes his way to the bathroom and discovers a young woman in the bathtub, hands bound at the wrists, and strangled.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey cold case fans, we have something special for you. We're bringing you double the episodes |
| 0:05.2 | every week. We know you dedicated fans need your fix in between new episodes, so every Thursday |
| 0:11.4 | we are back bringing some of our best episodes from previous seasons. Let us know which classic |
| 0:16.4 | episodes you'd like to hear again in the comments. And don't worry, we'll see you back here every |
| 0:20.7 | Tuesday for all new episodes of Cold Case Files too. Now onto the episode. |
| 0:26.1 | I really heard my mom scream like a scream that I never heard before. |
| 0:31.5 | And she said, Darlene has been murdered and it was like, no, oh my god, oh my god, no. |
| 0:39.2 | She didn't deserve to die like that. And I felt that I needed to do something. |
| 0:46.4 | On October 17th, 1978, 38-year-old Darlene Hines was found raped and murdered in her raft tub. |
| 0:54.8 | She didn't have any enemies. She wasn't leading any kind of secret double life. |
| 1:00.0 | She was a dental hygienist living in a small town that had only seen a handful of murders in the |
| 1:05.2 | last 20 years. Her brutal killing was as shocking as it was frustrating for investigators. |
| 1:12.4 | While the detectives were shocked and frustrated, Darlene's family was completely devastated. |
| 1:18.2 | One family member in particular, Darlene's cousin, Cheryl Cowan's, was determined to find the |
| 1:24.0 | killer and bring him to justice. But despite Cheryl's dog a determination, it would take another two |
| 1:31.6 | decades for investigators to uncover not one, but two credible suspects, two suspects who seemed |
| 1:39.6 | equally capable of committing such a heinous crime. And two suspects that Darlene had the misfortune |
| 1:46.3 | of working with, side by side, every day. In 2001, when DNA evidence connects the murder to |
| 1:56.1 | his victim, investigators are able to move in on one of their suspects. But a legal loophole could |
| 2:04.2 | jeopardize the entire case. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the podcast. I'm Brooke, |
| 2:15.6 | and here's Bill Curtis with a classic case, a cousin's promise. |
| 2:31.2 | I was very proud of the community. 288 units, garden-style apartments. It was a nice area. |
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