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Cold Case Files

Written In Blood

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Heidi Jones was just four years old when her mother was killed in 1970. Four decades later she vows to solve the cold case and enlists an old high school friend to help. Check out our great sponsors! If you’re 21 or older - download Slotomania on the App Store or Google Play Store and get one million free coins! SimpliSafe: Go to simplisafe.com/coldcase and claim a free indoor security camera plus 20% off your order with Interactive Monitoring! Vegamour: Go to Vegamour.com/coldcase and use code "coldcase" to save 20% on your first order! Cold Case Files is sponsored by BetterHelp! Learn more and save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/coldcase

Transcript

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0:00.0

an A&E original podcast.

0:02.8

This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

0:07.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:15.5

I think for me because I'm the reddest daughter.

0:19.2

I know she would have gone to great lengths to do whatever she needed to do for me.

0:24.2

And she proved that the night she was murdered,

0:27.4

how somebody could not make a sound through any of that,

0:30.8

not screaming out for help.

0:32.8

She went through it because she didn't want anything to happen to me.

0:36.2

How can I just let that go?

0:38.8

My mom was my hero that night.

0:41.0

I owed it to her to do something about this.

0:44.0

If I could become her hero by solving this, I was going to do it.

0:51.2

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

0:55.4

Each one is a cold case.

0:57.6

Only 1% are ever solved.

1:00.2

This is one of those rare stories.

1:03.2

Just after sunset in Price, Utah on July 30, 1970,

1:27.2

four-year-old Heidi Jones is about to drift off to sleep

1:30.6

when her 23-year-old single mother, Loretta, cracks open her bedroom door.

1:35.0

That night my mom came to my bedroom and she told me,

1:38.6

don't come out.

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