REOPENED: The Lost Patient
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Janie Landers disappeared from a home for the impaired in 1979, in what is the latest consequence of the facility’s history of neglect. When Janie’s body is found there are numerous suspects, but it takes years before the killer, and the atrocities in the facility, are uncovered.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains descriptions of violence. |
| 0:03.5 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:08.3 | My dad got the call about Janie being missing. |
| 0:12.8 | She was my sister. |
| 0:14.6 | She was mentally disabled. |
| 0:16.5 | I know Janie experienced being locked in rooms. |
| 0:20.1 | Fairview was not a good place for anybody to be. |
| 0:23.6 | She had a good heart. |
| 0:25.1 | Now, my sister was gone. |
| 0:28.4 | Why Janie? |
| 0:29.4 | I often wondered if the person that murdered Janie was out there harm in someone else. |
| 0:35.6 | This was the beginning of my quest to try to get her case solved. |
| 0:41.9 | There are 120,000 unsolved murders |
| 0:45.3 | in America. |
| 0:46.7 | Each one is a cold case. |
| 0:48.8 | Only 1% are ever solved. |
| 0:51.4 | This is one of those rare stories. |
| 1:26.1 | Music are ever solved. This is one of their patients, |
| 1:29.2 | 18-year-old Janie Landers, has absconded from the facility. |
| 1:35.2 | Janie's sister, Joyce Caldwell, |
| 1:38.1 | recalls what life was like growing up in the Landers family. |
| 1:40.9 | We grew up in Coosbe, Oregon. |
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