Podcasts by Gone Cold: Philadelphia Unsolved Murders
Gone Cold is a true crime podcast about cold cases, from KYW Newsradio. Tom Rickert and Kristen Johanson explore unsolved murder mysteries in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Rebecca Park - Philadelphia, 2003: The hunt for the Fairmount Park rapist from 2021-08-13T20:08
In July of 2003, a woman driving through Fairmount Park called 911 after hearing a bloodcurdling scream. Police followed her back to the spot where she first heard the scream and then walked into t...
ListenBonus episode: How genealogy identified Publicker Jane Doe from 2021-04-30T15:49:57
The young woman known only as Publicker Jane Doe for more than three decades was identified as Lisa Todd earlier this year. It was a triumph of investigative work and genealogy, and it was also the...
ListenUpdate: Naming Publicker Jane Doe from 2021-04-01T03:31
This is an update to the episode "What happened to Publicker Jane Doe," from November of 2020. Make sure you listen to that episode before starting this one. The remains of a young woman were foun...
ListenWhat Happened to Shelton Hayes? Philadelphia, PA, 2018 from 2021-03-01T04:30
On March 15th, 2018, Shelton Hayes was shot and killed in his mother's house in Northwest Philadelphia. Shelton's mother, Rhonda, was upstairs. He was 39 years old. He was a son, a brother, and a f...
ListenWhat Happened to Michael Ewer? Lansdale, PA, 2005 from 2021-01-31T23:52:57
On the morning of October 20th, 2005, a man was cutting the grass around Memorial Park in Lansdale, PA. The 10-acre park has a veterans memorial wall, tennis courts, and a baseball field with a dug...
ListenWhat Happened to Jeanette Tambe? Buena Vista, New Jersey, 1986 (Publicker Jane Doe: Part 2) from 2020-12-18T09:00
On August 8, 1986, a couple drove from Philadelphia to Buena Vista, New Jersey to check on a home they were building. They pulled into the driveway, walked around the property, and found something ...
ListenWhat Happened to Publicker Jane Doe? Bensalem, PA, 1988 from 2020-11-13T23:15
In January of 1988 a young girl's remains were found near the old Publicker Distillery in Bucks County, PA. She was pregnant when she died. For more than 30 years, her name has remained a mystery. ...
ListenWhat Happened to Melvin Dunn? Philadelphia, 2020 from 2020-10-14T08:30
It was the Thursday after Mother's Day. A group of teenagers on Park Avenue in Philadelphia saw something large, wrapped in blankets on the back seat of a white Pontiac. A few days earlier, Melvin...
ListenWhat Happened to Melvin Dunn? Philadelphia, 2020 from 2020-10-14T08:30
It was the Thursday after Mother's Day. A group of teenagers on Park Avenue in Philadelphia saw something large, wrapped in blankets on the back seat of a white Pontiac. A few days earlier, Melvin...
ListenWhat Happened to Melvin Dunn? Philadelphia, 2020 from 2020-10-14T08:30
It was the Thursday after Mother's Day. A group of teenagers on Park Avenue in Philadelphia saw something large, wrapped in blankets on the back seat of a white Pontiac. A few days earlier, Melvin...
ListenEpisode 9: The Boy in the Box from 2020-04-09T08:30
In February of 1957 the body of a young boy was found in a box in the woods near Susquehanna Road in Philadelphia. More than 60 years later, the identity of The Boy in the Box and the identity of h...
ListenEpisode 8: Jennifer from 2019-12-16T09:30
Jennifer Tong was taken from her Marple Township home and murdered in 1993. Her children were 11 and 14 years old, left without a mother. Jeanette Tong doesn't like to talk about the day her life ...
ListenThe Incredible Life of Pete Kane from 2019-11-25T09:30
Pete Kane is a photojournalist at NBC10 in Philadelphia. You met him in Episode 7: Officer Cione -- he talked about what it was like living in the neighborhood where Fred Cione was murdered, and de...
ListenLIVE! Crime Scenes&Updates from 2019-08-14T08:30
Kristen and Tom took Gone Cold to a live audience for the Philadelphia Podcast Festival at the end of July. Special guests Jacque Davis and Greg Yatcilla dive into what it's like to be crime scene ...
ListenGerald Ross was Shot in a Church from 2019-07-16T19:18:12
You met Gerald Ross Jr. in Episode 7: Officer Cione. He was a police officer and homicide detective in Philadelphia in the 60s and 70s -- one of the detectives who arrived at the scene of Fred Cion...
ListenEpisode 7: Officer Cione from 2019-06-28T04:30
On Jan. 30, 1970, Officer Frederick Cione was shot and killed on Oxford Street in North Philadelphia. He was 25 years old. Nearly 50 years later, his killing is still the only unsolved murder of a ...
ListenEpisode 6: Eric from 2019-02-25T09:30:52
Eric Birnbaum was a beloved father, brother, and son, working as an attorney in a quiet Bucks County town. On February 11, 2009, Eric was murdered in the parking lot of his Northampton Township of...
ListenPresents: The Bones in a Potter's Field from 2018-12-24T09:30
Dr. Erin Kimmerle digs up bodies. She's carefully picked through mass graves in Kosovo and Croatia to identify victims of war crimes. She did the same thing in Peru, where men, women, and children ...
ListenEpisode 5: Tomiene from 2018-07-30T16:38:28
Tomiene Jones worked the night shift at the post office. She would take her young daughter to the babysitter, and then drive to work. She'd done this many times before, and each time, she came back...
ListenEpisode 4: Don from 2018-03-22T08:42:49
Don Ly was a monk, a farmer, and a police officer in Vietnam. After the war, he moved heaven and earth to make a new life for his family in America. On April 18th, 2013, he was murdered outside of ...
ListenPresents: The Lost Boys from 2018-01-11T18:57:45
In July of 2017, four young men suddenly disappeared in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The search for answers took just over a week. What happened to them shocked the nation. This is a bonus episode...
ListenEpisode 3: Fred from 2017-11-21T00:52:21
In February of 1993, Fred Winner went to the bank. He dropped off checks from his check cashing business - and he picked up $10,000 in cash to take back to his store. He did this every day. But on ...
ListenEpisode 2: Carol from 2017-10-08T17:30:11
In June of 2013, 59 year old Carol Reiff was supposed to go to the beach with her family. She didn't show up. Her daughter Dawn has never stopped fighting to find out what happened. Gone Cold is m...
ListenEpisode 1: Jason from 2017-08-31T20:12:27
It was a chilly October night in 2004. Jason Richardson and his friend Anthony went to a bar in Upper Darby to unwind after a long week. 22-year-old Jason would never return home. Gone Cold is ma...
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