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The Search for Sheree | Nighthawk | 5

Cold

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True Crime, Ksl, Homicide, Cold, Susanpowell, Society & Culture, Westvalleycity, Joyce Yost, Utah, Found, Westvalley, Missing Persons, Murder, Police, Stevepowell, Disappearance, Investigation, Kidnapping, Coldcase, Joshpowell, Documentary

4.840.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Cary Hartmann brings look-alikes to a police lineup in the Ogden City Rapist case. His TV reporter friend Larry Lewis tests the boundaries of journalistic ethics when Cary goes to trial. Police detective Jack Bell receives a letter about Sheree Warren and the TV show “Unsolved Mysteries.”

Season 3 of Cold includes descriptions of rape, sexual assault, murder and domestic violence. Please take care when listening.

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0:00.0

Hey, prime members, you can binge all 10 episodes of Cold,

0:03.8

Add Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:08.8

This season of the Cold Podcast includes descriptions of rape, sexual assault,

0:13.2

murder, and domestic violence. Please take care in listening.

0:20.4

Weber County Attorney Reed Richards believed he had the Ogden City rapist in his sights.

0:25.2

He had charged Kerry Hartman with felony crimes for a string of home invasion sexual

0:29.4

assaults that had occurred across the city. We had one of the victims who had gone to a bar

0:34.8

one night and heard over the loudspeaker somebody announcing and recognized the voice of the person

0:40.4

that had broken into her home. That turned out to be Kerry Hartman.

0:44.2

Kerry faced charges in four separate cases. Police suspected him in several more, but all were

0:50.3

short on evidence. We didn't have DNA back then. Now we might have approached it a little

0:54.9

differently if you could get DNA samples from each of the women and tie it to him. That would be

0:58.7

different. We didn't have that. Only one of the women had picked Kerry's picture out of a photo

1:03.4

lineup. And that's not really unusual because he came in in the dark. He didn't let him see his face.

1:09.8

Another of the women, a person I'm calling Caroline, had told police she didn't want to look at

1:14.7

a picture lineup. She wanted the real thing. Reed didn't have much time to make a lineup happen.

1:20.4

The court had scheduled a preliminary hearing. Each of the four women were going to testify.

1:25.6

Reed knew the judge might not advance the case if none of them could say with confidence,

1:30.7

Kerry was the man who had assaulted them. It was challenging. And many of those women once they

1:36.6

went to the police actually moved because they didn't want whoever it was to know where they were at.

1:41.2

Kerry had managed to get out of jail ahead of that hearing after his parents put up their own

1:45.6

property as collateral for his bail. Reed was fighting that too, trying to protect his witnesses.

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