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Cold Case Files

The Deadly Ex

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A mother disappears and her voicemails lead detectives to the body. But the case goes cold until over a decade later when an informant discloses critical clues to turn the suspect into a convicted murderer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Before text messages, there was voicemail.

0:07.0

And before that, there were answering machines.

0:10.0

Little devices that plugged into a landline to answer your phone when you couldn't.

0:14.0

No matter how you get your messages now,

0:17.0

would they provide an accurate picture of your life?

0:20.0

Cheryl Petrie had an answering machine.

0:25.0

And on October 16, 1988, it recorded several calls.

0:29.0

She never heard those messages though.

0:32.0

It wasn't that same day.

0:34.0

Cheryl was murdered.

0:40.0

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

0:43.0

I'm Brooke, and here's the unrivaled Bill Curtis,

0:46.0

with a classic case, the Deadly X.

0:49.0

Cheryl, this is Marcelo.

0:52.0

It's 836.

0:55.0

Are you supposed to open the store today?

0:57.0

Bye.

0:59.0

Cheryl, this is Betsy.

1:01.0

It's 9 o'clock, and I'm at the store.

1:03.0

Could you get up here as soon as possible?

1:05.0

Thanks.

1:07.0

On a Sunday morning, an answering machine belonging to Cheryl Petrie,

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