The Pastor's Wife

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The image of a perfect couple is torn down when the wife goes missing and the husband, a pastor, may be hiding some ugly secrets. With no body, the case goes cold for three years, until a detective stumbles upon an unpleasant discovery. Check out our great sponsors! Cerebral: GET 65% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH OF MEDICATION MANAGEMENT AND CARE COUNSELING AT Cerebral.com/coldcase Shopify: Go to shopify.com/coldcase for a FREE 14 day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features! Thuma: Go to Thuma.co/cold to get a $25 credit towards your purchase of The Bed plus free shipping in the continental US! SimpliSafe: Go to simplisafe.com/coldcase and claim a free indoor security camera plus 20% off with Interactive Monitoring! Find your next place at Apartments.com - THE place to find a place! Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the ov er 27 million drivers who trust Progressive!

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0:00.0	As humans, we make judgments about those around us based on appearance, even though it's not
0:10.3	always a conscious process.
0:12.7	A person's job, body type, or even gender are just some of the things that can influence
0:17.8	our impressions of them.
0:19.8	In this case, a couple, Rick Poliapaster, and his wife Patty Joe, gave those around them
0:27.6	the impression that they were a happy, stable couple.
0:31.7	Maybe that was true, or maybe those judgments were misguided, because Patty Joe Poli was
0:36.8	murdered, and all the signs seemed to point to her husband.
0:44.1	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.
0:46.7	I'm Brooke, and here's the admired Bill Curtis with the classic case, The Pastors'
0:51.7	I always keep a picture.
0:59.4	Anytime I work in investigation, I keep a picture of the person missing or the victim,
1:05.4	because you always look back, and the person is not just a number, or not just something
1:10.8	that fades away.
1:13.4	Keith Isom is an investigator in Pizzol Vena County, Virginia.
1:17.6	He doesn't investigate a lot of hummus signs, but the one he does get, he takes personally.
1:22.6	It's someone that actually lived and had a family, and had thoughts, and had breath, and
1:29.6	now possibly something has happened to him, and so you keep reminding yourself that why
1:34.6	you're going forward is for that person that you got that photo.
1:38.5	The picture Isom holds close, belongs to Patty Joe Poli.
1:43.1	On May 16, 1999, her pickup truck is found abandoned near Highway 62.
1:49.7	Patty Joe herself is missing.
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