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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: Manhunt

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From 1999 to 2002, eleven young girls and women were sexually assaulted in a similar way. Despite these cases spanning across five states, in all of them, the same man kept popping up as a suspect. The problem wasn't figuring out who had committed these crimes. The problem was figuring out how to catch him.

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Transcript

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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.

0:26.4

In the fall of 1999, Sarah Jones had an experience in the middle of the night.

0:34.3

One that she'll never be able to forget.

0:37.0

She was nine years old at the time and at first thought she was dreaming.

0:40.8

A man picked her up and carried her outside and he told her that her house was on fire.

0:46.5

And then I put my foot down to see if I was actually outside and I just will get

0:52.5

to know if I was able to be right.

0:56.4

She wasn't dreaming though.

0:58.4

She was fully awake and the fact that she was being carried away into the night by a strange man

1:02.8

would become the lesser of the evil she'd be exposed to that night.

1:07.6

He laid me on the ground and told me to take my shorts off and I started screaming and yelling

1:12.5

and I told him no and then he put some kind of leather glove in my mouth.

1:17.6

And then since I want to take my shorts off he took them off for me.

1:25.2

Sarah's life had been changed forever that night and she wouldn't be the only one to fall victim

1:30.5

to this particular perpetrator. Over the next five years he would assault over nine other women

1:35.6

and girls continuing to stump detectives as he chose his next victims.

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