REOPENED: Man in the Shadows
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Police in Columbus, Ohio spend more than a decade hunting a man who terrorized a neighborhood known as Linden. In the process, he became one of the most prolific rapists in U.S. history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey cold case fans, we have something special for you. |
| 0:03.3 | We're bringing you double the episodes every week. |
| 0:06.0 | We know you dedicated fans need your fix in between new episodes. |
| 0:09.9 | So every Thursday, we are back bringing some of our best episodes from previous seasons. |
| 0:15.2 | 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. |
| 0:23.8 | Now onto the episode. |
| 0:25.8 | In February of 1991, Christina Ruth was warmly settled in for the night at her home in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 0:35.6 | It was winter and the cold suffocating winds were knocking at her windows and doors. |
| 0:40.2 | She also heard another knock. She thought it was the neighbor's dog trapped out in the cold. |
| 0:45.3 | It wasn't. |
| 0:47.9 | I went ahead and opened the door and suddenly this person came into my doorway and I went to shut the |
| 0:54.4 | door and he reached out and slammed the door open. |
| 1:02.7 | One third of all murder cases in America remain open. |
| 1:06.4 | Each one is called a cold case and only 1% are ever solved. |
| 1:11.9 | This is one of those rare cases. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. |
| 1:18.8 | The man entered Christina's home and quickly turned off the lights. |
| 1:27.2 | She couldn't even see how he looked. He started to attack her. |
| 1:35.2 | We made it to the living room. He had his hands around my neck and he was choking me and was |
| 1:44.7 | beating my head into the floor. |
| 1:46.4 | And he kept saying he was going to kill me. |
| 1:49.5 | Her attacker rips at her clothes and Christina's defense mechanisms start to work. |
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