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Cold Case Files

The Fingerprint

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In February of 1984 Susan Eigen and her 17-year-old son Richard are found murdered in their home. 18 Years later, the fingerprints found at the scene finally produce a hit, but it is the previously erroneous DNA that proves to be the linchpin in case. IQBAR - Get 20% off all IQBAR products plus free shipping by texting COLD to 64000 Progressive - Progressive.com  Rosetta Stone - Cold Case Files listeners can get Rosetta Stone’s lifetime membership for 50% off when you go to RosettaStone.com/coldcase SimpliSafe - Right now, get 20% off any new SimpliSafe system with Fast Protect Monitoring at SimpliSafe.com/COLDCASE There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. 

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0:00.0

Hi cold case listeners I'm Marissa Pinson and I want to thank you for joining me each week to hear stories about the investigators who dedicate their careers to bringing resolution to cold cases and the families affected by them.

0:11.0

I'd also like to let you know that Cold Case Files is not only

0:13.8

available where you're listening right now, but is also available ad-free in the

0:18.3

newly launched A&E Crime and Investigation Channel on Apple Podcasts and Apple Plus.

0:23.2

The channel features the hit A&E Podcast, Cold Case Files,

0:26.2

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0:29.5

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0:32.2

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0:32.8

So you can binge these true crime classics,

0:35.1

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0:39.0

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0:41.2

Just search for the A&E Crime and Investigation channel in Apple

0:44.2

Podcast or Apple Plus. And now onto this week's episode.

0:49.2

From A&E, and E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.

0:57.0

On February 26,

1:04.6

26, 1984, it's winter in Oceanside, New York.

1:08.6

At around 6.30 p.m. a patrol car is taking the corner at Lawson Boulevard when its radio crackles to life.

1:16.0

A dead body discovered by a family member inside a local home.

1:20.9

Officers Ed Carter and Otto Koll Meyer head to 3-4-1-2 Ocean Harbor Drive, home of 41-year-old Susan Eigen.

1:29.6

What we saw was one hysterical person, another woman off to, you know, in the kitchen kind of out of it and a man that was fairly calm for the situation who told us that someone would stay upstairs.

1:41.0

There was Susan Eigen laying in the doorway between the bedroom and the hall.

1:45.0

She was in a fetal position.

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