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Cold Case Files

The Clue That Stuck

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In an ocean-side town in California, a woman is strangled to death in her home and her head is wrapped in duct tape. Police are at a loss for evidence, but there is one eye-witness: the victim's four-year-old son. Check out our great sponsors! 1-800-Contacts: Order online at 1800contacts.com - download their free app - or call 1-800 Contacts (that’s 1-800-266-8228) Purple: Go to Purple.com/coldcase10 and use code COLDCASE10 to get 10% off any order of $200 or more! Terms apply SimpliSafe: Get a FREE home security camera, when you purchase a SimplISafe system at SimpliSafe.com/coldcase - You also get a 60 day risk free trial! Nutrafol: Go to Nutrafol.com and use code CCF to get 20% off your first subscription. Plus FREE shipping on EVERY order! Madison Reed: Find your perfect shade at Madison-Reed.com and get 10% off plus FREE SHIPPING on your first Color Kit with code CCF!

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Port Waini Mi is a quiet ocean side corner of the city of Oxnard, California. The area is known for

1:27.2

its strawberry production. You can hardly get in or out of Oxnard without driving past massive

1:32.0

fields of them. And during the summer, the smell of strawberries is constantly hanging in the air.

1:38.4

Unfortunately, in early June, 1993, the aroma of fresh fruit was probably the last thing on the

1:45.3

mind of 11-year-old Andrew and four-year-old Austin. Because that morning, just after Memorial Day

1:53.1

weekend, their lives changed forever when their mother, Norma Rodriguez, was found strangled to death.

2:00.9

Her head wrapped in duct tape. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. I'm Brooke.

2:09.1

And this story, adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files, is told by the unparalleled Bill Curtis.

2:29.4

It was Tuesday morning and it was the morning after the Memorial Day weekend.

2:34.2

On June 1st, 1993, a house that was once a home of a Cubsacim scene.

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