REOPENED: The Sting Operation

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 1977, a small town convenience store in Arkansas becomes the site of a robbery and a murder. What makes this case unique, is that the victim was seventy-one years old - and a cop. Solving his case would take a chat with a serial killer, an undercover sting operation, and twenty-five years. Sponsors: Simplisafe: Right now, Cold Case Files listeners get a special 20% off any SimpliSafe system when you sign up for Fast Protect Monitoring. This huge offer is for a limited time only. So visit SimpliSafe.com/COLDCASE There’s no safe like S impliSafe. Nutrafol: Take the first step to visibly thicker, healthier hair. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code FILES. ZocDoc: Go to Zocdoc.com/CCF and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. That’s Zocdoc.com/CCF Angi: Download the free Angi mobile app today or visit Angi.com Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive dot com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.

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0:00.0	BB is a small city in Arkansas with some big mysteries.
0:09.4	One such mystery occurred in 2011 and 2012.
0:13.6	When I knew your Z for two years in a row, thousands of red winged blackbirds and European
0:18.2	starlings dropped dead out of the sky.
0:21.8	Some of blame fireworks.
0:23.7	Others say it's a sign of the end of the world.
0:26.8	But that's actually not the mystery we're talking about today.
0:30.1	Our mystery goes back to 1977.
0:33.5	Early in the morning, on April 5, the body of Abe Pippkin was found near a convenience
0:37.9	store.
0:38.9	He'd been beaten to death.
0:40.6	And the convenience store had been robbed.
0:44.3	This kind of thing didn't typically happen in a place like BB.
0:48.2	But there were two facts that made this murder stand out even more.
0:52.2	One, Abe Pippkin was 71 years old.
0:55.6	And two, he was a cop.
0:59.9	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.
1:04.0	I'm Brooke, and this story, adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files, is told
1:09.8	by the eminent Bill Curtis.
1:19.9	It's early morning when Arkansas State Police Investigator JR Howard is called downtown
1:25.1	BB, where 71-year-old officer Abe Pippkin has been found beaten to death.
1:35.1	There was blood on the sidewalks, just completely encompassing this area where he had wandered
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