REOPENED: The Tourniquet
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It's the late 90's in Houston, Texas and a serial killer is on the loose, having already strangled at least three women to death. His signature? A ligature tied around the neck, and tightened with a tourniquet.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Cold Case Files the Podcast contains descriptions of sexual assault and murder of children. |
| 0:07.0 | Lister discretion is advised. |
| 0:13.0 | On April 16, 1992, Detective Ron Horowitz, a crime scene investigator, |
| 0:19.0 | was working as shift in the homicide office in Houston, Texas. |
| 0:23.0 | A call came in that the body of a woman had been discovered in the drive-through lane of a local dairy queen. |
| 0:29.0 | It wasn't long after he arrived that he realized that the woman had been sexually assaulted and choked. |
| 0:36.0 | One-third of all murder cases in America remain open. |
| 0:40.0 | Each one is called a cold case, and only one percent are ever solved. |
| 0:45.0 | This is one of those rare cases. |
| 0:48.0 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the Podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | Her panties would pull down to her knees, and she had this little rope tied around her neck with a piece of, I believe, dollop or wood. |
| 1:14.0 | Detective Horowitz processed the scene. |
| 1:16.0 | He first filmed the area and then collected and analyzed the physical evidence. |
| 1:20.0 | He collected semen from her mouth and scraped under her fingernails, hoping for some biological clue. |
| 1:26.0 | They also sought to identify the victim, to give her a name and to notify her family and friends of her tragic death. |
| 1:32.0 | About an hour later, a news story breaks about a murder at dairy queen. |
| 1:36.0 | They show footage of the scene, including the body that have been covered by a sheet. |
| 1:40.0 | Barely peeking out from underneath the shroud was a pair of white and gold shoes. |
| 1:45.0 | Rosa Agreta was watching the news. |
| 1:48.0 | I looked at the TV, and the only thing I could see was her shoes. |
| 1:54.0 | The shoes were identical to the ones owned by her friend, Maria del Carmen Estrada. |
| 1:58.0 | The two women had made plans to meet at Rosa's house that very morning, but Maria hadn't made it. |
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