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Cold Case Files

Radio Silence

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 1980, 21-year-old radio intern, Helene Pruszynski, is found bound and stabbed in a snowy field in Denver, Massachusetts. After 37 years of dead ends, investigators turn their attention to a public genealogy website. Check out our great sponsors! KiwiCo: Get 50% off your first month plus FREE shipping on ANY crate line with code COLDCASE at kiwico.com Progressive: Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 27 million drivers who trust Progressive!

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.

0:06.7

Listener discretion is advised.

0:10.8

My philosophy on life, you should just be yourself and make the best of everything.

0:16.1

Smile.

0:17.1

That's what I do all the time.

0:18.1

I met Haleen in the 1970s.

0:21.1

She was always smiling, always smiling.

0:24.0

I can still hear Haleen's voice.

0:26.2

I can still feel her presence.

0:28.4

And that's why I made a promise to her parents that I would not rest until we found out

0:35.9

who, why, how, and get the answers for them.

0:40.2

And I made a promise to her because it shattered all of us.

0:45.5

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

0:49.4

Each one is a cold case.

0:51.4

Only 1% are ever solved.

0:53.2

This is one of those rare stories.

1:03.7

It's cold in Douglas County, Colorado on the morning of January 17, 1980.

1:09.2

A woman and her children are driving through Daniels Park,

1:12.0

a wide open expanse of land along county road 67.

1:16.0

Snow still sits on the frosty ground throughout the fields, but

1:19.5

something catches her son's eye as he glances out the window.

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