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Cold Case Files

The Smoking Gun

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A 2007 cold case resurfaces when a detective reopens the investigation into the brutal killing of Audrey Giannotti, 20, in rural Pennsylvania. BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/COLDCASE to get 10% off your first month. Homes.com: We’ve done your homework. HungryRoot: Go to Hungryroot.com/coldcase and use code coldcase to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choice for life. Progressive: Progressive.com  Quince: Go to Quince.com/coldcase for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/coldcase and take your retail business to the next level today! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following episode contains intensely disturbing accounts of violence.

0:05.4

Listener discretion is advised.

0:08.8

Audrey's personality was big.

0:11.5

She had a signature laugh and she had a lot of friends.

0:16.7

Audrey loved everyone.

0:19.7

Unbelievable when it happened.

0:22.6

Who would want to hurt her?

0:24.1

The fact that this young mother was shot and killed in front of her two young daughters.

0:27.9

In the same bedroom, that's about as terrible as a cat.

0:32.5

I was a really scared kid.

0:34.2

I thought they were really come back for me and my sister.

0:37.1

Ordered Giannati's case, it was the worst that I've seen of humankind.

0:43.1

We didn't understand why there was no arrest yet.

0:46.2

I was determined to get justice.

0:48.9

I never lost hope.

0:51.3

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only about 1% are ever solved. This is one of

0:59.8

those rare stories. It's January 13, 2007, in Laurel Dale, Pennsylvania.

1:13.0

It's a cold, dark winter night.

1:15.9

Jackie and Terry Hollenbach are asleep.

1:18.8

When Jackie suddenly awakens, she senses something isn't right.

1:23.5

Harold Shank is a retired Berks County DA investigator.

1:27.2

Jackie smells something hot or burning. She went downstairs to investigate. Harold Shank is a retired Berks County DA investigator.

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