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🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey cold case fans, we have something special for you. We're bringing you double the episodes |
0:05.2 | every week. We know you dedicated fans need your fix in between new episodes, so every Thursday |
0:11.4 | we are back bringing some of our best episodes from previous seasons. Let us know which classic |
0:16.4 | episodes you'd like to hear again in the comments. And don't worry, we'll see you back here every |
0:20.7 | Tuesday for all new episodes of Cold Case Files too. Now onto the episode. |
0:30.0 | Paula Godfrey graduated from Olathe North High School during the summer of 1984. |
0:36.1 | She was 19. Like the other graduates in her Eastern Kansas town of Overland Park, |
0:42.5 | Paula was looking for her first job. She didn't have the benefit of the internet, so Paula responded |
0:48.6 | to an ad in the help-wanted section of the local paper. Paula felt lucky that she was offered a |
0:55.0 | position. The prospective employer's name was John Robinson. He tells Paula that she'll need to |
1:01.6 | attend a training session out of town. Under that premise, John picks Paula up from her home on |
1:08.8 | August 23rd, 1984. The thing is, there was no training. And that was the last time Paula's |
1:20.0 | parents saw their daughter alive. One-third of all murder cases in America remain open. |
1:29.8 | Each one is called a Cold Case. And only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those cases. |
1:41.2 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. |
1:54.6 | The story of Paula Godfrey's disappearance, one that spanned over two decades is horrifying on |
2:00.0 | its own. However, only four months later, another woman had an unfortunate encounter with John |
2:07.7 | Robinson. Mr. Robinson, it seems, had an ability to make young women disappear. |
2:16.7 | Lisa Stasi was also 19 and she had a five-month-old daughter named Tiffany. It was just the two of them |
2:23.4 | with no outside support. Lisa wanted the best for her baby, and so she looked for a job through a |
2:29.7 | local outreach group. Instead, Lisa found John. John was nice to Lisa. He offered her some |
2:38.4 | money and helped her find a place to stay, which in this case was a motel. Lisa checked into the |
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