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Cold Case Files

The Monster

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A serial rapist leaves a trail of death and destruction unchecked for years... until one victim survives.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

A monster, by definition, is an imaginary creature.

0:10.4

But so many times people refer to rapists and murderers as monsters.

0:16.3

I think we do that because we're scared.

0:18.6

We don't want to believe that a human is capable of such

0:20.9

horrific acts. No one wants to believe that one of our friends or family members could become

0:26.9

one of society's most hated. The reality is though, murderers and rapists are simply humans

0:35.3

whose life experiences warp their sense of right and wrong.

0:39.8

In many cases, it's a cycle that goes unnoticed until it's too late.

0:44.8

In this case, a sexual predator, Charles Ray Vines, has been labeled as a monster.

0:54.1

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

0:57.5

I'm Brooke, and here's the iconic Bill Curtis with a classic case, The Monster.

1:06.9

10 a.m. on a Sunday morning, and church begins to fill. J.W. McCalpin is a regular at the Phoenix

1:14.4

Village Baptist Church and notices an empty pew, one usually occupied by a 58-year-old Juanita Wofford.

1:23.6

If she could get here, she was here. Anytime I'm shut the door is open, she was here.

1:29.3

After church, McCalbund and a friend Paywaffe had a visit

1:33.3

and immediately realized something is a miss.

1:37.3

The living room door were partially opened,

1:42.3

so we opened the storm door so we could kind of see,

1:46.5

all we could see was a trail of blood going through the house.

1:51.2

A call is made to police.

1:53.4

Fort Smith Detective Randy Cook is the first to arrive.

1:57.5

And when we entered the residence, there was forced entry to the front door.

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