REOPENED: The Paper Route
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A newspaper carrier is found murdered execution style, and the investigator on the case has known the victim for over 30 years. Determined to find his friend's killer, the investigator will search for more than a decade before finally bringing the killer to justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Cold Case fans, we have something special for you. |
| 0:03.4 | We're bringing you double the episodes every week. |
| 0:06.2 | We know you dedicated fans need your fix in between new episodes. |
| 0:10.0 | So every Thursday, we are back bringing some of our best episodes from previous seasons. |
| 0:15.3 | Let us know which classic episodes you'd like to hear again in the comments. |
| 0:18.8 | And don't worry, we'll see you back here every Tuesday for all new episodes of Cold Case Files, too. Now on to the episode. This episode contains |
| 0:26.9 | descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Use your best judgment. In 1988, Bertha Neiman was 63 years old. |
| 0:41.3 | She lived near Hilton Head Island off the coast of South Carolina. |
| 0:45.3 | She worked as a rural newspaper carrier for almost 15 years. |
| 0:49.4 | She would drive across the state line and into Georgia to pick up the papers. |
| 0:53.7 | After loading all the papers into her |
| 0:55.7 | van, she drove from Savannah back towards Hilton Head, stopping frequently to drop off bundles of |
| 1:01.6 | newspapers to distribution centers. The papers would then be separated and given to the local carriers. |
| 1:09.4 | Bertha grew up in Michigan. |
| 1:15.8 | In 1943, when she was 16, Bertha married Klesson Neiman. |
| 1:21.6 | The couple had their first child in 1946, a daughter named Audrey Ann. |
| 1:26.8 | Sadly, she died seven years later, a victim of leukemia. |
| 1:35.0 | Bertha had three more children, twins, Donna and Daryl, and a few years later, a son named Lonnie. |
| 1:38.5 | The family moved to South Carolina in 1965. |
| 1:41.7 | Bertha's mother joined them a short time later. |
| 1:46.0 | In 1975, at the age of 50, Klessa Neiman died from a sudden illness. |
| 1:49.0 | Bertha got a job delivering newspapers. |
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