The Search for Sheree | Purgatory | 7
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Investigator Shane Minor heads up the mountain behind Causey Reservoir in search of Sheree Warren’s remains. Cary Hartmann begins to accept responsibility for the crimes he was convicted of, and at long last agrees to speak with police about Sheree’s disappearance.
Season 3 of Cold includes descriptions of rape, sexual assault, murder and domestic violence. Please take care when listening. Free resources for escaping domestic abuse are available at thehotline.org. Support and tools for survivors of sexual violence can be found at rainn.org.
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Episode credits:
- Research, writing and hosting: Dave Cawley
- Audio production: Ben Kuebrich
- Audio mixing: Ben Kuebrich
- Cold main score composition: Michael Bahnmiller
- Additional scoring: Allison Leyton-Brown
- KSL executive producer: Sheryl Worsley
- Workhouse Media executive producers: Paul Anderson, Nick Panella, Andrew Greenwood
If you enjoy Cold, please try these other great shows from KSL Podcasts: The Letter, Ransom, Unsolved Histories
Transcript
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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, |
| 0:13.1 | murder, and domestic violence. Please take care in listening. |
| 0:23.6 | Carrie Hartman sat in shackles before Don Blanchard, a member of the Utah Board of |
| 0:27.8 | Pardons and Parole. Are you ready to go ahead with this hearing today? |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah. That's Carrie's actual voice. I do need to place you under oath. I realize the |
| 0:36.4 | restraints make it so you're unable to raise your right hand. I will still administer |
| 0:41.0 | both and expect you to accept that. Do you affirm your testimony to be the truth, |
| 0:46.0 | the whole truth, and that thing about the truth? I do. |
| 0:48.5 | It was March 28, 2000, nearly 15 years since the disappearance of Carrie's girlfriend, |
| 0:54.6 | Shuri Warren, and eight years since his first appearance before the parole board. |
| 0:59.9 | Back then, Carrie denied having committed the rape that had sent him to prison. |
| 1:03.8 | Initially, there appeared to be famed, memory loss, problems in recalling events, and what had transpired. |
| 1:13.1 | That evolved into years of full denial that absolutely nothing had occurred, no sexual assaults whatsoever. |
| 1:19.9 | Now, with the prospect of parole on the horizon in just a couple of years, Carrie was ready to take |
| 1:26.8 | responsibility. You think your victims enjoyed the sexual contact? Absolutely. |
| 1:32.9 | Don read an account of the crime into the record. When she awoke, you were in the apartment, |
| 1:39.2 | returning off the TV, approached her, told her to be a quiet that you had again. |
| 1:44.6 | I won't share the graphic details. The important part is this. Carrie, at long last and under |
| 1:50.8 | oath, said it was all true. Is that correct, summary of what happened in that particular answer? |
| 1:58.0 | Carrie had by that point served 12 and a half years on his 15-to-life sentence. |
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