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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: A Family Secret

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A Kentucky teenager goes missing before school. Her bed is unmade, her car is in the driveway, and in the front seat is her purse, one shoe, and her cell phone with the numbers "9" and "1" entered on the screen. Her disappearance ignites a manhunt, a feud with a neighbor, and a family torn apart. Even with the help of the FBI, it will still take fourteen years to figure out what happened to Jessica Dishon.

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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.

0:30.6

It's hiker. Somebody taking your 17 year old kid and killing her.

0:37.8

Jessica's murder became the biggest unsolved murder case in the state.

0:44.2

The shocking thing about this case was that it was right there in front of him. Nobody did a thing

0:49.3

about it. It was early morning in Bullock County, Kentucky. The Dishon family went about their

0:55.7

usual routine. Edna was ready for work a little after 5.30 a.m. My ex-her husband got their two

1:02.3

boys up a little after that. They had to catch the bus to school at 6.30 a.m. He looked at it on

1:08.3

his daughter Jessica. She was still sleeping. He let her sleep though because she was 16 and

1:13.4

enabled to get herself to school. When Jessica's mother Edna got home around 1 p.m. she noticed

1:19.5

that Jessica's car was still parked in the front of the house. But Jessica wasn't home.

1:26.4

Inside of her car, Edna found Jessica's purse, phone, and a single shoe.

1:31.5

The phone had the number 9 and the number 1 dialed in, but the call hadn't been sent.

1:36.2

Jessica was missing. The dark secret to Jessica's disappearance wouldn't be uncovered

1:42.0

for 14 years. There are 120,000 unsolved murder cases in America. Each one is called a cold case,

1:51.5

and only 1% are ever solved. You're listening to cold case files the podcast from A&E.

2:01.8

Edna did everything she could think of to look for her missing daughter. She talked with Mike,

2:06.1

she talked with the school. She even went to the restaurant where Jessica worked and talked to

2:09.9

her best friend Sarah. But she didn't find Jessica. Jessica hadn't even made it to school that day,

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