The Sting Operation

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.1 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 1977, a small town convenience store in Arkansas becomes the site of a robbery and a murder. What makes this case unique, is that the victim was seventy-one years old - and a cop. Solving his case would take a chat with a serial killer, an undercover sting operation, and twenty-five years. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One.
0:08.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One.
0:16.0	An A&E original podcast.
0:20.0	BB is a small city in Arkansas with some big mysteries.
0:28.0	One such mystery occurred in 2011 and 2012.
0:32.0	When I knew your Z for two years in a row, thousands of red winged blackbirds and European starlings
0:38.0	dropped dead out of the sky. Some of blame fireworks. Others say it's a sign of the end of the world.
0:45.0	But that's actually not the mystery we're talking about today.
0:48.0	Our mystery goes back to 1977.
0:52.0	Early in the morning on April 5th, the body of Abe Pippkin was found near a convenience store.
0:58.0	He'd been beaten to death and the convenience store had been robbed.
1:02.0	This kind of thing didn't typically happen in a place like BB.
1:07.0	But there were two facts that made this murder stand out even more.
1:10.0	One, Abe Pippkin was 71 years old and two, he was a cop.
1:18.0	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.
1:23.0	I'm Brooke and this story adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files
1:28.0	is told by the eminent Bill Curtis.
1:31.0	It's early morning when Arkansas State Police investigator J.R. Howard is called downtown BB,
1:45.0	where 71-year-old officer Abe Pippkin has been found beaten to death.
1:49.0	There was blood on the sidewalks, just completely encompassing this area where he had wandered around after he'd been beaten.
2:03.0	The blood trail leads investigators to a local pharmacy that had been burglarized earlier that same morning.
2:10.0	This is the glass door that was broken out and the glass was knocked back in probably 25 to 30 feet.
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