The Tourniquet
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It's the late 90's in Houston, Texas and a serial killer is on the loose, having already strangled at least three women to death. His signature? A ligature tied around the neck, and tightened with a tourniquet.
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| 0:25.4 | An A&E original podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | This episode of Cold Case Files the podcast contains descriptions of sexual assault and murder of children. |
| 0:32.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:38.4 | On April 16, 1992, Detective Ron Horowitz, a crime scene investigator, was working his shift |
| 0:45.2 | in the homicide office in Houston, Texas. |
| 0:48.9 | A call came in that the body of a woman had been discovered in the drive-through lane |
| 0:52.6 | of a local Dairy Queen. |
| 0:54.8 | It wasn't long after he arrived that he realized that the woman had been sexually assaulted and choked. |
| 1:01.5 | One third of all murder cases in America remain open. |
| 1:05.9 | Each one is called a cold case, and only 1% are ever solved. |
| 1:13.6 | This is one of those rare cases. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. |
| 1:22.6 | Her panties were dropped, pulled down to her knees, and she had this little rope tied around her neck with a piece of, I believe, dowel or wood. |
| 1:39.7 | Detective Horowitz processed the scene. He first filmed the area and then collected and analyzed the physical evidence. |
| 1:46.2 | He collected semen from her mouth and scraped under her fingernails, hoping for some biological |
| 1:50.2 | clue. |
| 1:51.3 | They also sought to identify the victim, to give her a name and to notify her family and friends |
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