REOPENED: The Barrel

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A Long Island man is preparing to sell his house when he discovers a 55-gallon barrel hidden in his crawlspace. It has seemingly been there for decades - at least for as long as he's owned the home. But when he pries off the lid, he quickly realizes that it isn't just a barrel... it's a tomb. Sponsors: Hydrow: Join the growing, rowing community at Hydrow. Take advantage of Hydrow’s special Holiday savings right now. Head over to Hydrow.com and save up to seven hundred fifty dollars off your Hydrow Cozy: And here’s our gift to YOU this holiday season. Go to CozyEarth.com and enter code CCF to save up to FORTY percent. . Progressive: Press play on comparing auto rates. Quote at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Angi: Download the free Angi mobile app today or visit Angi.com

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0:00.0	This was an upper middle class, Long Island neighborhood where the homes were luxury homes.
0:10.0	There's no crime.
0:13.0	why everybody wants to come and believe out here.
0:16.0	Toward the rear, there is a 22 by 24 foot crawl space.
0:25.0	He crawled all the way to the back of the crawl space.
0:28.0	He saw the barrel.
0:30.0	I saw what appeared to be a human hand and a foot. When you never really know exactly what's coming with it. Maybe it's a leaky pipe, some hidden mold, or perhaps it's an old note stashed beneath a floorboard.
0:57.0	For one Long Island man in 1999, though, his house came along with an entirely different kind of mystery.
1:04.0	A large sealed metal barrel left in the crawl space for what seemed like decades.
1:11.0	When the man pried the barrel open, he found a green goo, plastic pellets, and the most horrible
1:16.7	smell he'd ever encountered.
1:19.1	He didn't know it yet, but it was the smell of rotting human remains.
1:23.0	Who was this person and tuned inside a barrel under a house on Long Island?
1:27.0	How did they get there?
1:29.0	And who was responsible?
1:31.0	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the podcast.
1:37.0	I'm Brooke.
1:38.0	And here's Bill Curtis with a classic case,
1:41.0	The Barrel.
1:45.0	On the afternoon of September 2nd, 1999, in the township of Jericho, Long Island, real estate agent Peter Coconos heads to the home of a client.
1:58.0	He has asked Coconos to help dispose of a 55-gallon drum, one that is rested in the crawl space of the client's
2:05.2	home since before he moved in, nine years earlier.
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