REOPENED: Graveyard Shift
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A gas station attendant is brutally murdered in the middle of the night, and investigators struggle to indict their prime suspect despite eye witness testimony. Over a decade later, a lead surfaces that might finally close the case.
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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. |
| 0:18.8 | 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. |
| 0:30.3 | On August 17, 1984, Billy Dilt's gas tank was empty. He'd been called into work. |
| 0:39.4 | There was an emergency at the oil rig. |
| 0:45.1 | At around 2 a.m., he pulled into a 24-hour Texaco station, |
| 0:47.5 | called the Star Stop, to fill up his gas tank. |
| 0:50.0 | But something seemed a bit off. |
| 0:55.8 | Normally, you'd pull up, and a tenant inside would see you you were there and they would turn the pump on. |
| 1:02.3 | So I pulled up and got out, put the nozzle in my gas tank filler tube, and turned around and looked, |
| 1:03.8 | and I didn't see anybody in the store. |
| 1:10.4 | Billy went inside, laid his credit card on the counter, and asked the clerk to turn on the pump. I stood there a minute and turned around and looked at him in the store and he's |
| 1:14.6 | standing there like he's messing with the little switches that you use to turn the different pumps on. |
| 1:19.6 | And all of a sudden I noticed he's coming outside the store, walking towards me across the parking lot there. |
| 1:25.6 | And so I started over towards him and he's got my credit card in his hand. |
| 1:28.3 | He said, I cannot get the pump to turn on. |
| 1:31.3 | Annoyed by the situation, he drove off trying to remember another 24-hour gas station, |
| 1:38.3 | hopefully with more competent workers. |
| 1:41.3 | What Billy Diltz didn't know was the man that he had handed his credit card to |
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