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Cold Case Files

A Bullet To The Heart

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When night manager Rodney Castin is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel three weeks before Christmas, detectives scour Georgia for his killer; two decades pass before an informant's shocking testimony breaks the case wide open. Check out our amazing sponsors! This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/COLDCASE to get 10% off your first month. CookUnity - Go to CookUnity.com/COLDX or enter code COLD before checkout for 50% off your first week. HERS - Start your initial free online visit today at ForHers.com/COLDCASE This episode is sponsored by Progressive Insurance! 

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0:00.0

I knew it had to be something that I knew Rodney was in trouble, but I did not know that he had already been pronounced dead.

0:16.0

December of 2000, I made Kelly Castling a promise that Rodney's case would one day be solved.

0:24.2

I lost my first husband. I lost the father of my children.

0:29.8

We know that there was an armed robbery.

0:32.6

You may be talking about six, eight, nine pounds of pressure changing farm robbery to the ultimate

0:40.1

crime of murder.

0:42.1

But this was a complete who done it.

0:45.9

Someday I would find out.

0:47.9

Someday I would know.

0:49.8

And I just held on to that.

0:53.1

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

0:57.0

Only about 1% are ever solved.

1:01.0

This is one of those rare stories.

1:06.0

My husband Rodney had an old soul.

1:10.0

There was something about him where it seemed like he had been around for years.

1:14.6

He just had a wisdom about him that was very special.

1:19.6

Rodney was going to school during the day, and he was working at night.

1:25.6

And one night I called Rodney,

1:30.6

and we talked on the phone about our day.

1:33.9

And then we ended our call, as we usually do,

1:36.9

with I love you.

1:39.3

And that was the last time I talked to him.

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