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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: Evidence Kit Sacramento

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Cold Case Files follows Sacramento County deputy district attorney Anne Marie Schubert as she hunts for a killer. Her target is a murderer who brutally stabbed a man to death in his home 16 years earlier, and she plans to find justice using a new grant for DNA testing.


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This episode contains descriptions of violence. Use your best judgment.

0:57.8

Yeah. contains descriptions of violence. Use your best judgment. In 1992, a man named John Arana was murdered in his home in Sacramento.

1:03.8

When his body was discovered, the crime scene was brutal. There was blood everywhere.

1:09.2

So, when crime scene investigators examined the scene, it was likely

1:13.6

that the murderer's DNA was collected in one of the many swabs. Unfortunately, that evidence

1:21.8

went on the pile with the hundreds of other untested evidence kits.

1:30.3

It took 11 years for his kit to be processed, which gave his murderer an additional 11 years of freedom

1:34.3

and to possibly kill again.

1:38.3

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

1:41.3

I'm Brooke, and here's Bill Curtis with the second part of a classic case, evidence kit.

1:52.3

In 2000, Sacramento County receives a state grant to help reduce their backlog of evidence kits.

2:00.2

What we have here is sexual assault kits

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