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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: Carol's Diary

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A 16-year-old girl is killed and her brother is the first to come upon her murder scene. The teenager's diary leads detectives to her killer...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Cold Case fans, we have something special for you.

0:03.4

We're bringing you double the episodes every week.

0:06.2

We know you dedicated fans need your fix in between new episodes.

0:10.0

So every Thursday, we are back bringing some of our best episodes from previous seasons.

0:15.3

Let us know which classic episodes you'd like to hear again in the comments.

0:18.9

And don't worry, we'll see you back here every Tuesday for all new episodes of Cold Case Files, too. Now on to the episode.

0:29.1

Carol Hutto turned 16 in 1976. She lived in Largo, Florida with her parents and her brother Jerry.

0:40.9

Carol was considered a friendly person by most everyone who knew her.

0:45.4

On December 13th, she told her mother that she would be back in a couple of hours

0:49.4

and headed to a friend's house.

0:53.5

Carol didn't stay with her friend long, claiming she was headed to a friend's house. Carol didn't stay with her friend long,

0:55.8

claiming she was headed to a nearby drugstore.

0:58.5

Carol asked her friend to tell her parents

1:00.4

that she would be back in 10 minutes

1:01.9

if they happened to call.

1:04.7

She wasn't back in 10 minutes,

1:06.8

and she didn't return home in a couple of hours.

1:10.2

Carol Hutto never came home again

1:12.4

because the 16-year-old girl had been murdered.

1:19.6

From A&E, this is cold case files.

1:33.3

When Carol didn't come home, her mother Norma was understandably worried. I knew when Carol didn't come home in a couple of hours like she said, I'll be back.

1:40.3

I won't be gone long. I knew that something was wrong.

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