Smoky Mountain Mystery
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
After nearly two decades of silence, a man known as the Smoky Mountain Gypsy comes forward with information that could lead police to solve not one, but two different murders, which had never before been connected.
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.9 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak |
| 0:13.7 | you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the |
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| 0:35.3 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One. Thank you for listening to this podcast one production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts and Podcast One. |
| 0:56.8 | On April 15, 1979, Harriet Simmons left her home in Raleigh, North Carolina for a weekend trip to Nashville. |
| 0:58.4 | The drive should have taken about eight hours, but Harriet Simmons never arrived at her destination. |
| 1:05.1 | Her family feared for her safety and reported her missing. |
| 1:08.4 | This is her son-in-law, Ronnie DeMette. It was totally out of character for her missing. This is her son-in-law, Ronnie DeMint. |
| 1:12.1 | It was totally out of character for a mom not to call when we knew she would, you know, |
| 1:18.9 | because her kids were her life. |
| 1:21.6 | She would never go that long and not be in touch with them. One third of all murder cases in America remain open. |
| 1:31.8 | Each one is called a cold case, and only 1% are ever solved. |
| 1:36.8 | This is one of those rare cases. |
| 1:39.9 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. |
| 1:50.0 | Okay. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. The family joins in the search. |
| 1:52.5 | Ronnie retraces the route that Harriet would have taken to get to Nashville. |
| 1:56.7 | Two and a half hours into the search, he finds an important piece of evidence. |
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