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Cold Case Files

Vintage Murder

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A sudden memory flash leads detectives to a killer’s door and closes a case 25 years in the making.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Don Maggiar was 20 years old in 1973.

0:12.1

She lived in the small town of Chessening, Michigan with her husband and one-year-old son.

0:19.6

On January 27, she decided to do some shopping.

0:23.2

She would get groceries and then visit the mall in the next town over.

0:27.5

She put on her black sweater and blue slacks, followed by her brown leather jacket,

0:31.7

because it's cold in January and Michigan.

0:36.0

She kissed her family goodbye and set out for the store.

0:40.1

None of them knew she would be saying goodbye forever.

0:45.8

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

0:55.3

Don's car seemed to be having issues as she made the drive, so she stopped at a service

0:59.7

station for help.

1:01.5

The charged her car battery while she called her father-in-law to ask if she could borrow

1:05.2

his truck.

1:06.8

When the car was charged enough to make it to her in-laws house, she drove there and traded

1:10.8

her car for the truck.

1:12.8

At around 4 p.m., she once again left to go shopping.

1:17.4

When Don didn't come home, her family began to search for her.

1:20.8

And though they didn't find Don, they found the truck she was driving, abandoned in a store-parking

1:25.2

lot.

1:26.6

The driver's side door was unlocked and one of the keys from her key ring was found in

1:30.1

the seat, and another was on the floor.

1:32.4

They assumed that she'd finished her shopping because bags of groceries and clothes were found

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