REOPENED: A Detective's Promise

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When an 18-year-old hitchhiker is found in a ravine, the autopsy reveals her killing is perhaps the most brutal the examiner has ever seen. Detective McManus is struck by this case, and so he makes a promise. He's going to find the person who committed this crime, no matter how long it takes. Sponsors: Hydrow: Join the growing, rowing community at Hydrow. Head over to Hydrow.com and use code COLDCASE to save up to five hundred dollars off your Hydrow. Thrive: Join in on the savings with Thrive Market today and get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! Go to Thrivemarket.com/coldcase for 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift! Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.

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0:00.0	This episode discusses stories of intense sexual violence, which may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:07.0	Please, listen with caution. Camilla Randall was only 18 when the police found her body dumped in a ravine, beaten and mutilated.
0:21.0	She was identified when her backpack with her ID and journal were found nearby.
0:26.0	Camilla was a free spirit.
0:29.0	She planned a hitchhike to California.
0:32.0	She called her family a few days earlier and they didn't
0:35.4	know it would be the last time. When Deputy McManus shared the tragic news with her mother, he made
0:41.4	her a promise he didn't know if he could keep.
0:44.0	I'll find whoever did this.
0:47.0	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.
0:52.0	I'm Brooke, and here's Bill Curtis. This is Cold Case Files, the podcast.
0:52.8	I'm Brooke.
0:53.8	And here's Bill Curtis with the classic case,
0:56.6	a Detective's Promise.
0:59.6	We're going up Holland Hill Road heading up into the Jededaya Smith State Park.
1:09.2	Things are quiet in Crescent City on a Sunday morning.
1:13.0	That is, until a call comes in.
1:15.0	A woman's body found lying in a ravine.
1:19.0	Deputy Jean McManus responds.
1:21.0	Well, I saw what appeared to be some kind of a blanket, but I saw the head of a young woman
1:28.2	with pretty bright red hair and a lot of exposed cut tissue.
1:34.0	She'd been brutally beat.
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