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The Cory Barron Homicide

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

True Crime

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, Cory Barron is out for a night of fun at a stadium in Cleveland. He’s there to see Jason Aldean, and by all accounts, he’s having a great time. And then, he’s gone, seemingly into thin air. A few days later, his body is found in a landfill one county over. What happened to Cory Barron, and can police find justice? JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.2

July 18, 2014 is a really, really busy night at work for Dolores Simpson.

1:18.4

She's a concessions vendor at Progressive Field in Cleveland, home to baseball's then-Cleveland Indians, now known as the Cleveland Guardians. It's peak summer, and while the baseball team

1:24.1

is out of town, there's a huge crowd filing into the stadium, nearly 40,000 plus.

1:31.1

They're there to see one of the biggest country music tours of the summer.

1:34.9

Jason Aldeen and his Burnett Down tour is criss-crossing the country playing massive shows to massive crowds.

1:42.1

And tonight, the all-day country concert is in Cleveland, the rock and roll capital of the world.

1:49.2

Dolores is in the stadium's upper deck, selling beer near Section 518 of the stadium when a 22-year-old man approaches.

1:57.3

He orders two budd lights, gives Dolores his ID.

2:01.6

Dolores says the man seems outgoing, pumped to be at the concert.

2:05.2

And he visits Dolores three more times that night, stopping by her stand with friends,

2:09.7

buying a couple more rounds at 822, 8.50, and then lastly at 9.12 p.m.

2:16.8

And a short time later, before the show ends, he walks by Dolores' beer stand one final time.

2:24.4

No beer, just a quick wave.

2:27.2

And Dolores waves back.

2:29.6

At about 1 p.m. on July 22nd, four days after the Jason Aldeen concert at Progressive Field,

2:35.9

an employee of the Lorraine County landfill, 30 miles west of Cleveland, picks up the office

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