REOPENED: She Never Came Home

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A fourteen-year-old girl walks home from school to avoid bullies on the bus. On the way through "The Culvert," she's murdered, and the police are left with nothing but questions. What happened that led her to take that shortcut? What's the deal with the purse in the tree? Why does everyone in town seem to have a bloody knife? And most importantly, who killed Tina Faelz? Start your investigation today and download June’s Journey! Available on Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as on PC through Facebook Games. Compare auto rates with Progressive Insurance! Quote at Progressive.com to join the over 29 million drivers who trust Progressive!

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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 2. Now onto the episode.
0:33.6	There are 120,000 unsolved murder cases in America, and each one is called a cold case.
0:47.3	Only 1% of cold cases are ever solved. This is one of those stories. This is Cold Case Files,
0:59.5	the podcast from A&E. I am Brooke, and let me clarify now, I am not an investigator, I'm not an
1:06.6	attorney, I'm not a journalist, I don't have any radio training, and up until last year I wasn't
1:12.4	even a podcaster, I'm a social worker. Social work is about figuring out what triggers certain behaviors,
1:19.2	what in a person's life has led them to make certain choices, and how do those choices affect others.
1:25.6	I'm fascinated by these stories, I love telling them, especially when the stories have an ending.
1:31.0	This podcast isn't about unsolved mysteries, this podcast is about rare cases that go cold,
1:37.0	and against all odds are solved. At the end of this episode, I promise you'll know who killed Tina
1:43.1	Fales. Pleasanton, California, a place that looks exactly how it sounds. A quaint quiet community,
1:54.2	a place where neighbors rarely lock their doors, certainly not a town that would play host to a
1:59.2	brutal murder. In fact, in 1984, only five murders had been committed in Pleasanton since
2:06.7	World War II. In short, no one saw this coming. I remember every bit of that day, like it was yesterday.
2:16.8	I came home from school and my sister wasn't there on typical day, she wouldn't get home before me,
2:23.5	watch over me, and she'd help me with my homework. There'd be times where my mom would go out at
2:28.0	night, and my sister would put me to bed. She protected me, she looked out for me all the time,
2:33.2	another hour passed by and she still hadn't come home. I was scared, I didn't know what was going on.
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