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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: Eyes of a Killer

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A violent robbery in February, 2010 caused Michael Temple Jr. to become quadriplegic for five years before his death. DNA taken from a knife used in the attack helps to create a profile of the killer.


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0:00.0

This episode contains descriptions of violence.

0:03.6

Listener discretion is advised.

0:08.3

There was a huge shadow over us of who could have possibly done this.

0:12.3

If not a friend, then who?

0:15.2

Everybody that I looked at, I started wondering, is it this guy?

0:19.2

Is it this person?

0:20.6

Who would possibly do this?

0:22.0

The only way that I can really describe your world being blown apart is devastation and loss.

0:30.4

A part of me died that night.

0:33.3

A piece of my innocence, a piece of my hope, all of my dreams, gone.

0:39.2

It changed me and not for the better.

0:42.6

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

0:47.0

Each one is a cold case.

0:49.1

Only 1% are ever solved.

0:51.8

This is one of those rare stories.

1:01.5

Thank you. are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories. It's a dark and snowy night in Odinton, Maryland on February 2, 2010. Michael Temple

1:07.8

Jr. and Margaret Ridgely are returning to their home after spending the evening celebrating Michael's mother's birthday.

1:14.6

As the young couple pulls up outside their home, they're surprised to find their friend Kelly waiting on their doorstep.

1:21.0

Kelly needed to use our computer to get a money transfer.

1:24.3

So we walk inside to my bedroom so that Kelly could use our computer for a little bit.

1:30.0

Michael and Margaret met on a blind date while Margaret was in her junior year of high school.

1:34.6

Michael was three years older than Margaret. They hit it off immediately, especially after Margaret

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