REOPENED: NCIS
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ensign Andrew Muns disappeared from the Navy ship he was serving on during the Vietnam War. His disappearance was officially ruled a desertion, but Andrew's sister, and investigators, never believed that story. They believed he was murdered. And they held onto that belief for thirty years.
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| 0:00.0 | Ensign Andrew El Munz was a soldier in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. |
| 0:05.0 | Now he's buried in Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 0:09.0 | He died in 1968 while serving aboard the U.S.S. Kacapon in the Philippines. |
| 0:14.0 | But his death didn't come by way of enemy fire. |
| 0:17.0 | His death was a mystery. |
| 0:25.0 | Some suspected foul play. Some called it an accident. |
| 0:27.0 | The Navy's officials stance was that Ensign Muns went AWOL, |
| 0:31.0 | that he was a deserter and a disgrace. |
| 0:35.0 | For Andrew's sister, Mary Lou Taylor, that was an answer she couldn't live with. |
| 0:40.0 | She knew, deep down on her gut, who her brother really was. And that kind of person he was. |
| 0:45.0 | She knew he would never desert his post. |
| 0:48.0 | And that meant he must have been murdered. |
| 0:53.0 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Brooke, and this story, adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files |
| 1:03.2 | is told by the resplendent Bill Curtis. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, we're going to go up the hill to my brother's grave site. It's always hard to find it because there's so many. |
| 1:20.0 | Mary Lou Taylor walks past row after row of headstones. |
| 1:24.0 | Each marks the resting place of an American hero. |
| 1:28.0 | In at least one case, the headstone memorializes a murder victim. |
| 1:34.0 | This is it. |
| 1:36.6 | In memory of Andrew L. Muns, ensign, US Navy, Vietnam, |
| 1:42.0 | October 12, |
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