REOPENED: Sweethearts, Silenced

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A teenage couple disappears from a wedding in rural Wisconsin. Did they simply run off or was it something more sinister? When their bodies surface two months later, the town is turned upside down by the shocking brutality of the crime. Investigators struggle to piece together scraps of evidence and sparse leads to bring justice to the victims' families. In their decades-long search for the killer, officers will uncover more than one monster before finally answering the question: who killed Tim Hack and Kelly Drew? Check out our great sponsors! Nutrafol: Grow thicker, healthier hair by going to Nutrafol.com and use code FILES to save $15 off your first month’s subscription! Start your investigation today and download June’s Journey! Available on Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as on PC through Facebook Games.

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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.
0:30.1	There are 120,000 unsolved murder cases in America, and each one is called a cold case. Only
0:36.5	1% of cold cases are ever solved. This is one of those stories. This is Cold Case Files,
0:43.3	the podcast from A&E. I'm Brooke, a social worker, turn podcaster. Cold cases facetate me,
0:50.2	because after all these years, often decades, terms like justice, evil, victim, they all get
0:56.8	worked. How does the element of time change the way we see such brutal crimes? And what happens
1:02.1	when we find the answers we've been seeking? In Galveston, Texas, 1979, the body of a young woman
1:14.0	was found on Halloween. She'd been raped, then strangled to death. She was a Jane Doe, nobody
1:20.4	recognized her. She had no identification. The only thing on her body at all was a pair of orange
1:26.4	socks. Try and picture her killer. Is he a face she passed by every day, or a serial killer who
1:32.3	came out of the shadows? Where did her monster come from? While the case of the orange socks
1:40.2	drifter would remain unsolved for four years, that's not the case I'm talking about today,
1:44.5	not really, though it will become relevant. What I want to talk about is a couple. Tim Hack
1:50.0	and Kelly Drew. She was a city girl, he was a country boy, like real country. This was rural
1:55.9	Wisconsin, about halfway between Milwaukee and Madison. Tim lived and worked on his family's farm,
2:01.1	he owned his own tractor, which he wrote in competitive tractor pulling events at the county fair.
2:05.6	Here's Tim's sister Mary. Tim and Kelly started dating in high school, his brother Patrick.
2:10.6	Some of us are lucky enough to meet our high school sweetheart and get married.
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