The Flaming Gorge Falls
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In the summer of 1996, Bob Duke calls 911 after his wife and young son fall from a high cliff in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Green River, Wyoming. Their deaths are ruled an accident, but to investigators, the circumstances look suspicious. Three years later, an informant raises suspicions even further, and say that Bob Duke may be plotting a new scheme.
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| 0:10.9 | Available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts and Podcast One. |
| 0:15.9 | An A&E Original Podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | Green River, Wyoming is a bucolic mountainous area. |
| 0:27.5 | Nearby is a popular hiking spot known as Lost Dog Trail. |
| 0:31.7 | It leads through a range of mountains and drops off into the Flaming Gorge Canyon. |
| 0:37.2 | At the end of the trail is a cliff known as the point. |
| 0:40.6 | It's a little rocky but flat enough to walk around on. |
| 0:44.4 | That is until the sudden 100-foot drop-off. |
| 0:48.0 | That's about 30 meters. |
| 0:50.3 | However you measure it, that's a long way down. |
| 0:54.1 | On August 10, 1996, Bob Duke called 911 at around 3 p.m. |
| 1:01.0 | He said his wife and child had fallen off of a cliff. |
| 1:05.4 | He told the police that his family had planned a picnic. |
| 1:09.1 | His son was running around, chasing lizards, having a fun time. |
| 1:13.9 | But then it all went wrong. |
| 1:17.4 | Duke says he went back to the car to get a drink. |
| 1:20.5 | And when he returned to the cliff, his family was missing. |
| 1:24.1 | They'd fallen over the edge, and he didn't know how to help them. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. They'd fallen over the edge, and he didn't know how to help them. From A&E, this is cold case files. |
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