Hey cold case fans, we have something special for you. We're bringing you double the episodes

every week. We know you dedicated fans need your fix in between new episodes, so every Thursday

we are back bringing some of our best episodes from previous seasons. Let us know which classic

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Tuesday for all new episodes of Cold Case Files too. Now onto the episode.

This is the storage unit number B32. I could see the bottom of a green metal steamer type trunk.

Within about six seconds you could smell a strong odor, distinct odor of death.

I looked at Detective Doyle and I said Peggy's going to be in there.

In 1990, Geraldine Rihome lived at home in Syracuse with her mother Peggy and her mother's

boyfriend George. On the surface they may have seemed like a happy family, but that was tragically

far from the truth. I'll tell you now that this story ends with a murder and a dead body,

but it starts with a little girl and the villain who lived in her own home.

Geraldine Rihome was 13 when her mother's boyfriend George Gettis began to abuse her.

And in the way that one bad deed usually breeds another, George's abuse kicked off a chain of

events that led to the mysterious disappearance of Geraldine's mother, Peggy Rihome. Peggy would

remain missing for another 12 years. While her daughter hoped to install odds that her mom was

alive somewhere and would someday come home. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the podcast.

I'm Brooke and this story adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files is told by the unparalleled

Bill Curtis.

We're here at the Sheriff's Office in active records file. We're heading down to the case file where

Peggy Rihome case was kept. Detective Keith Hall works cold cases for the Audenduga County Sheriff's

Office. Spring of 2002, I was assigned to Peggy Rihome case. The dead time it was classified as a

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