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Cold Case Files

Where's Peggy?

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

After a mother hears about allegations that her physically abusive boyfriend has sexually abused her daughter, she goes mysteriously missing for over a decade. A trunk, a storage unit, and a Cold Case detective's dogged determination help solve the mystery. Check out our great sponsors! Madison Reed: Find your perfect shade at Madison-Reed.com and get 10% off plus FREE SHIPPING on your first Color Kit with code CCF! NetSuite: Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at NetSuite.com/ccf SimpliSafe: Get a FREE home security camera - PLUS a 60 day risk free trial - when you purchase a SimpliSafe system at SimpliSafe.com/coldcase

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today. Thank you for listening to this podcast one production available on Apple Podcasts and

0:34.7

podcast one. This is the storage unit number B32. I could see the bottom of a green metal steamer type trunk.

0:51.6

Within about six seconds, you could smell a strong odor, distinct odor of death.

1:01.3

I looked at Detective Doyle and I said Peggy's going to be in there.

1:07.0

In 1990, Gerald and Rihon lived at home in Syracuse with her mother Peggy and her mother's

1:12.8

boyfriend George. On the surface, they may have seemed like a happy family, but that was tragically

1:19.4

far from the truth. I'll tell you now that this story ends with the murder and a dead body,

1:25.6

but it starts with a little girl and the villain who lived in her own home.

1:31.2

Gerald and Rihon was 13 when her mother's boyfriend George get us began to abuse her.

1:37.2

And in the way that one bad deed usually breeds another, George's abuse kicked off a chain of

1:42.6

events that led to the mysterious disappearance of Gerald and's mother Peggy Rihon. Peggy would

1:50.5

remain missing for another 12 years, while her daughter hoped to install odds that her mom was

1:56.8

alive somewhere and would someday come home. From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the podcast.

2:06.1

I'm Brooke and this story adapted from a classic episode of Cold Case Files is told by the unparalleled

2:15.0

Bill Curtis.

2:26.2

We're here at the Sheriff's Office inactive records file. We're heading down to the case file where

2:31.1

Peggy Rihon case was kept. Detective Keith Hall works cold cases for the Audem Daga County Sheriff's

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