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Unsolved Crime Stories

Unsolved Crime Stories

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Summary
 Cold Case Killers peels back decades of silence to follow the forensic threads that reopen unsolved murders. Each episode reconstructs investigations where DNA evidence, genealogical leads and fresh forensic techniques change the story and push cases toward justice.

You’ll hear tight, evidence-forward storytelling that focuses on the science and the search: how genetic genealogy, cold-case DNA analysis and crime-scene forensics reshaped leads, identified persons of interest, and prompted new legal steps. This is not rumor or speculation — it’s methodical, document-backed narrative built for listeners who care about facts and breakthroughs in cold-cases-ADN.

New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 AM. Expect focused 30–50 minute episodes that blend case history, forensic explanation and the investigative turning points that revived each inquiry.

This podcast is for true crime listeners, armchair investigators, legal professionals and anyone fascinated by genetic genealogy and forensic science who wants clear explanations and accountable reporting on unsolved murders.

Subscribe now to follow the forensic leads, track the evidence, and hear how cold-case DNA can change outcomes and bring answers where there were none.

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Episodes
  • A Dry Shoe in the Rain: The Murder of Troy Miller

    A Dry Shoe in the Rain: The Murder of Troy Miller
    26 Oct 2026
    A Dry Shoe in the Rain: The Murder of Troy Miller

    A single dry shoe on a wet driveway, found at 6:20 a.m. after a hard rain, became the smallest clue that changed everything in a case that went unanswered for thirty-two years - how did a left Oxford from Troy Miller’s work pair end up at 412 Birch Hollow Lane while the right shoe was never found, and whose blood matched the partial stain in the kitchen doorway?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from October 11-14, 1990, laying out Troy Miller’s routine, the condition of his rental house, and the evidence collected that night, then follow the frozen piece of evidence that sat in a police freezer for decades - could that sealed swab finally hold the answer?

    Person: Troy Miller
    Date: October 11-14, 1990
    Location: 412 Birch Hollow Lane, Grover Falls, Indiana
    Status: Case cold for thirty-two years; evidence swab preserved
    Event: Troy found fatally struck in his kitchen doorway

    - Troy Miller was 30 years old and worked as a procurement coordinator at Briar Supply.
    - Troy left the Grover Falls Community Assistance Center at approximately 9:15 p.m, on Wednesday, October 11, 1990.
    - At 6:20 a.m. on October 14, 1990, a 15-year-old paperboy named Charles Weber found the side door open and a single brown Oxford in the wet driveway.
    - Medical examiner Dr. Carl Osgood determined Troy had been struck twice with a cylindrical blunt instrument and likely died within minutes of arriving home late on October 11 or early October 12.
    - On October 15, 1990, criminalist Doug Petrie swabbed the interior heel lining of the shoe, sealed it in a plastic tube labeled "unknown origin - shoe interior," and placed it in the Grover Falls Police Department evidence freezer.

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    21 min
  • Glove, Grave, and a GEDmatch Match: The Roy Petersen Breakthrough

    Glove, Grave, and a GEDmatch Match: The Roy Petersen Breakthrough
    25 Oct 2026
    Glove, Grave, and a GEDmatch Match: The Roy Petersen Breakthrough

    The discovery of a right hand in a black leather work glove and a left hand eighteen inches away on September 14, 1983, sat boxed and ignored for decades-until a single glove became the hinge of a case that links a cold burial to an identifiable man. Who left a pair of hands on an eleven-mile gravel spur and why did the file, flagged in the original pathologist's report as HCJ-83-014, go untouched for more than thirty years?

    In this episode, we follow the documented trail from the Fenner Cut recovery through the archived case file to the person who later reviewed it, and we track the concrete evidence and timelines that finally raised new questions about Roy Petersen's disappearance. How did a glove, a ledger entry, and old forensic notes converge to reopen a life-long mystery?

    Person: Roy Petersen
    Location: Fenner Cut, an eleven-mile gravel spur in Nebraska
    Date: September 14, 1983 (recovery); September-October 1981 (last confirmed contacts)
    Case: HCJ-83-014
    Reviewer: Paul O'Connor

    - Two hands were recovered on the shoulder berm of Fenner Cut; the right hand wore a black leather work glove and the left hand was bare and found eighteen inches away.
    - The pathologist's report estimated the decedent was a male aged between twenty-two and twenty-eight and noted a left temporal bone fracture consistent with blunt-force trauma.
    - Roy Petersen paid $110 monthly rent and paid October's rent in cash on September 29, 1981, telling landlord George Pell he might travel for a family matter.
    - Roy was last confirmed to have spoken with his sister Connie after that September 29, 1981 phone call; no missing persons report was filed.
    - Paul O'Connor, age sixty-three and a retired Nebraska State Patrol member, received the boxed case file as part of a batch review in 2016.

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    24 min
  • The Cup Left Upright: How Warm Coffee Snared a Killer After 31 Years

    The Cup Left Upright: How Warm Coffee Snared a Killer After 31 Years
    24 Oct 2026
    The Cup Left Upright: How Warm Coffee Snared a Killer After 31 Years

    The sight of a sixteen-ounce coffee cup left upright beside a strangled woman-still warm when collected-turns ordinary routine into a chilling clue that sat in a freezer for thirty-one years. How could a drink bought the same evening a woman was murdered retain warmth while her body had been dead at least six hours, and what secret did that cup preserve?

    In this episode, we follow the evidence trail from a Quik-Fill sleeve on Ember Road to a retired detective’s unease and three decades of dead ends, as the case file, a suspect’s name, and a single preserved cup refuse to align. Who set the cup upright, and why did that detail haunt the investigation?

    Person: Pamela Stewart
    Date: August 11, 1988
    Location: Otter Run (near Ember Road) and Clover Street (home)
    Status: Case went cold in 1991
    Investigator: Detective Earl Maddox

    - Pamela Stewart was 47 years old and worked as a senior billing coordinator at Vantage Systems.
    - Her regular coffee order was large, light cream, two sugars, bought every Thursday at the Quik-Fill station on Ember Road.
    - Pamela’s burgundy Pontiac was found pulled into overgrowth; her body was discovered 40 feet from the vehicle on August 13, 1988.
    - The medical examiner determined Pamela had been dead for at least six hours when the coffee cup was collected.
    - Detective Maddox conducted more than 90 interviews and fingerprinted 23 people; one partial print on the Pontiac matched no interviewed person.

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    20 min
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