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Cold Case Files

Sweethearts, Silenced

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A teenage couple disappears from a wedding in rural Wisconsin. Did they simply run off or was it something more sinister? When their bodies surface two months later, the town is turned upside down by the shocking brutality of the crime. Investigators struggle to piece together scraps of evidence and sparse leads to bring justice to the victims' families. In their decades-long search for the killer, officers will uncover more than one monster before finally answering the question: who killed Tim Hack and Kelly Drew? Find affordable online therapy with TALKSPACE. Match with your perfect therapist at www.Talkspace.com or download the app. Use promo code COLDCASE to get $100 off your first month. Got hair color needs? Use MADISON REED! Get 10% off plus FREE SHIPPING on your first Color Kit with code "COLDCASE" at www.madison-reed.com Get a quote online at www.Progressive.com in as little as 5 minutes and see how much you could be saving!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One

0:12.3

There are 120,000 unsolved murder cases in America and each one is called a cold case

0:18.7

Only 1% of cold cases are ever solved

0:21.5

This is one of those stories

0:24.3

This is cold case files the podcast from A&E

0:27.8

I'm Brooke, a social worker, turn podcaster

0:31.1

Cold cases fascinate me because after all these years, often decades, terms like justice,

0:37.0

evil, victim, they all get worked

0:40.3

How does the element of time change the way we see such brutal crimes and what happens when we find the answers we've been seeking

0:46.8

In Galveston, Texas, 1979, the body of a young woman was found on Halloween

0:58.2

She'd been raped, then strangled to death

1:01.1

She was a Jane Doe, nobody recognized her

1:04.3

She had no identification

1:06.2

The only thing on her body at all was a pair of orange socks

1:10.1

Try and picture her killer

1:11.7

Is he a face she passed by every day or a serial killer who came out of the shadows

1:16.5

Where did her monster come from

1:21.4

While the case of the orange socks drifter would remain unsolved for four years, that's not the case I'm talking about today

1:27.1

Not really, though it will become relevant

1:29.7

What I want to talk about is a couple

1:31.8

Tim Hack and Kelly Drew

1:33.7

She was a city girl, he was a country boy

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