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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: The Family

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When a 19-year-old girl goes missing, her family suspects the mafia is involved...but it will take another 16 years for her body to surface and nearly 20 years to bring the killers to justice. Greenlight: Get your first month FREE when you go to Greenlight.com/coldcase 

Transcript

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0:00.0

On October 17th, 19th, 1982, Michelle Basil, who was 13, answered the family phone in her Portland, Oregon home.

0:16.4

On the other end of the line was her 19-year-old sister, Kim.

0:21.5

Michelle heard her older sister crying and begging to come home.

0:25.0

The call was disconnected, but before the line went dead,

0:30.0

Michelle heard what sounded like an assault.

0:35.0

Kim was never heard from or seen alive again.

0:40.0

Sixteen years later, in 1998, Kim's body was discovered buried just outside Friend Oregon.

0:47.0

From A&E, this is cold case files.

0:52.0

I'm Brooke, and here's the unparalleled Bill Curtis with the classic case the family.

1:00.0

What we look for when it came up. We look for and when came up, we looked for indentations in the snow, and the first one was right over here.

1:09.0

Michael Gates is a Multnomah County investigator.

1:12.0

This was the actual tip here and what we're doing. is a

1:13.3

malnoma county investigator.

1:12.3

This was the actual pit here.

1:14.3

What we're doing is we're digging a parallel ditch

1:18.0

and then go in.

1:19.1

On April 19th, he returns to a hole in the ground for seven years ago a team of cold case

1:25.1

detectives uncovered the remains of a woman named Kim Basil a woman who had been

1:30.2

missing for 16 years.

1:33.0

This is the first one.

1:35.0

This is the first one.

1:36.0

Okay.

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