The Weepy-Voiced Killer
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Women are being murdered in Minnesota's twin cities, and police are desperate to catch the murderer who keeps calling to confess his crimes.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcasts. |
| 0:09.6 | On New Year's Eve in 1980, Karen Potech, a student at the University of Wisconsin, celebrated with her sister in Minnesota's Twin Cities. |
| 0:22.6 | The girls were both celebrating on University Avenue, which runs the stretch between St. Paul and Minneapolis. |
| 0:29.6 | They'd gotten separated a little earlier on the night, but they didn't let that stop them from enjoying the evening. |
| 0:35.6 | When the clock struck midnight, the festivities slowed down, and Karen decided to call it a night. |
| 0:42.5 | At around 3 a.m., the St. Paul Police received this call. |
| 0:47.3 | Yes, please, this is an emergency police in a squad that Pierce Butler Road, Malenberg manufacturing company, machine shop. |
| 0:58.0 | There's an ambulance too. There's a girl who's there. |
| 1:01.0 | Can you tell me what happened to him? |
| 1:03.0 | There's hurry. There's, there's, she's laid on the ground in the back by the railroad tracks, by the actual. |
| 1:08.0 | What's the address? |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know. Who are you? |
| 1:12.6 | Hello. |
| 1:13.6 | From A&E. |
| 1:17.6 | This is Cold Case Files. |
| 1:24.6 | Officers responded to the call and found Karen in a snowbank near some railroad tracks. |
| 1:29.4 | She was naked, badly beaten, and her skull had been cracked. |
| 1:34.5 | Karen survived but was cognitively impaired, and she had no memory of who had tried to kill her. |
| 1:41.1 | In June of 1981, the same weepy voice was on the other end of a 911 call. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh, you're... |
| 1:48.0 | You find me. I just passed somebody with a nice pick. I can't stop myself. I keep killing somebody. |
| 1:55.0 | Hello. Are you there? |
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