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Cold Case Files

The Missing Informant

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

After confidential informant Christine Elkins disappears before she can testify against her former boss, the trail goes cold. Six years later, when the case is reopened, it is a team of scientists and divers with a specialty in finding clandestine graves that proves to be the difference. Apartments.com: To find whatever you’re searching for and more visit apartments.com the place to find a place. Gravity Defyer Shoes: Experience ultimate comfort and pain relief at gdefy.com and use code Coldcase for $30 off orders of $150 or more! Progressive: Progressive.com  

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0:00.0

Let me ask you a question. You have a best friend? How big would it shock you if somebody

0:06.3

told you that your best friend just killed somebody?

0:08.6

Not a law which an emergency.

0:10.6

Someone on every line, they have a kid to have my son and they're demanding fire. emergency. On September 12th, 1995, 12 year old McKay Everett disappeared from his home in Conroe, Texas. It was a crime that shocked the community

0:26.3

because the suspect was so unlikely, so unexpected.

0:30.7

Former high-ranking police official, he'd run for sheriff at one point.

0:34.8

Law enforcement personnel were pretty much split down the middle over whether or not he actually

0:39.7

did this.

0:40.7

And to this day, McKay's mother, Paulette, still feels that justice was never truly served.

0:47.0

I've asked myself so many times what in the world happened.

0:52.0

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0:54.4

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1:00.0

This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.

1:03.7

Listen or discretion is advised.

1:05.7

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.

1:17.0

In 1990, on the second floor of a high rise in downtown Kansas City, a cop waits by the phone and worries.

1:30.0

It's been days since ATF Agent Mark James last heard from a confidential informant,

1:34.7

Christine Elkins, and he fears the worst. It's a tale that begins a year earlier

1:40.2

and a story that's all too familiar.

1:43.0

It's December 1989.

1:45.0

Christine Alkins is a single mother living in Maryville, Missouri,

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