REOPENED: Déjà Vu

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 1996, a 25-year-old school teacher was found murdered in the bathtub of her Arlington, Texas apartment. Three months later, a 22-year-old woman was found murdered in the bathtub of her Arlington, Texas apartment - located in the very same complex. The crime scenes looked virtually identical, but it would take police four years to trace these two murders back to the killer who committed them. Sponsors: Cozy: And here’s our gift to YOU this holiday season. Go to CozyEarth.com and enter code CCF to save up to FORTY percent. Zocdoc: Go to Zocdoc.com/CCF and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Progressive: Press play on comparing auto rates. Quote at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.

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0:00.0	On September 17, 19, 1996, a man returned home to find his girlfriend murdered in the apartment they shared in Arlington, Texas.
0:14.4	She was faced down in the bathtub, bound by duct tape with evidence pointing to strangulation and
0:19.1	rape. The police investigated the boyfriend, but soon realized he wasn't the culprit.
0:27.0	Three months later on Christmas, another woman was found murdered in her apartment in Arlington, Texas.
0:33.2	Her body was bound by duct tape, and she'd been strangled and raped.
0:38.4	She, too, was found in the bathtub.
0:42.0	Police needed to find this bathtub killer and fast before he could hurt anyone else
0:46.9	but the DNA they collected was useless without a suspect.
0:50.7	What other connections were there between these seemingly unrelated victims?
0:55.9	What evidence could they have missed?
0:59.4	From A&E, this is cold case files. I'm Brooke and here is the legend himself, Bill Curtis, with the classic case Deja vu.
1:10.0	Well, if I remember correctly, it was about 530 in the afternoon.
1:17.0	Ed Featherston is a veteran detective with the Arlington Police Department.
1:21.0	Arlington is quiet on a Tuesday in 1996 until Featherston catches a homicide call.
1:27.0	2200 Block of Henderson, if I remember correctly, is where I got it, and that's the, that was the old old pear tree plum tree apartments. It's a nice building. It's a nice apartment complex.
1:37.0	Nice on the outside, but inside apartment 816, a 25 yearold school teacher named Christine Voo lies dead.
1:47.0	When I first arrived on scene, there are uniformed police officers who are all over this
1:53.9	apartment complex, who are locating, interviewing, and identifying witnesses.
1:59.9	Tang Chiku is there at the apartment.
2:03.0	Tang Koo is Christine Voo's live-in boyfriend.
2:07.0	It was Koo who called 911 after discovering his girlfriend's body.
2:11.0	He was very, very distraught. He was screaming. He wanted the
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