REOPENED: Burning Desire
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
A California Highway Patrol officer spots a fire in an olive orchard and pulls off to investigate. He finds a woman's body, shot and set ablaze. It doesn't take police long to develop a theory on who did it... but why, where, how, and who else all remain a mystery.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey cold case fans, we have something special for you. |
| 0:03.3 | We're bringing you double the episodes every week. |
| 0:06.0 | We know you dedicated fans need your fix in between new episodes. |
| 0:09.9 | So every Thursday, we are back bringing some of our best episodes from previous seasons. |
| 0:15.2 | Let us know which classic episodes you'd like to hear again in the comments. |
| 0:18.8 | And don't worry, we'll see you back here every Tuesday for all new episodes of Cold Case Files too. |
| 0:23.7 | Now onto the episode. |
| 0:25.3 | She was still alive at the time. |
| 0:30.3 | I mean, you know, she was very, very distinctive, like, breathing going on. |
| 0:37.6 | She had this look in his eyes. |
| 0:41.2 | I won't forget that look. |
| 0:42.5 | It's just like the stare that you stare down a victim. |
| 0:48.4 | And if you say anything, you could be one too. |
| 0:53.6 | Later on the night of July 4th, 1997, a California highway patrol officer spotted flames |
| 1:00.8 | whipping up from an olive orchard just off the highway in northern California. |
| 1:05.3 | When he went to investigate, he found the body of a young woman. |
| 1:08.9 | She'd been murdered. Her body had been dumped and set ablaze. |
| 1:14.4 | Why was his woman killed? |
| 1:16.4 | And how did she end up in this orchard so crudely disposed of? |
| 1:19.6 | In order to determine any of that, |
| 1:25.2 | detectives first needed to figure out who this mystery woman was. |
| 1:29.6 | Then, eventually, they might be able to figure out what person or persons should be held responsible. |
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