Cold Cases

In the spring of 1986, Cindy Zarzycki is 13 years old and, in so many ways, she’s a typical teen: She loves music, plays softball, and has a crush on a guy named Scott. But when she takes off one weekend to go see him, she never returns home. Discounted as a runaway, police sit on her case for years before realizing — they’d gotten it all wrong.

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When two young girls are found dead in Brighton, England, a local man does everything he can to avoid suspicion. Four years later, a young girl stumbles naked out of the woods north of Brighton, and police have to ask: Is history repeating itself? And if they can’t secure a conviction, will their prime suspect walk free… again?

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In the summer of 1977, two college roommates are brutally attacked at an Oregon campsite. Fifteen years later, one of them decides to crack open her own cold case in search of answers — and finds that more than two lives were changed that night.

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Carter introduces Spotify’s latest true crime podcast, delving into the case of Kevin Keith. Listen to an exclusive clip from the first episode right here, then head to The System to finish the episode and hear more. 

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In 1964, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore’s bodies are found in the Mississippi River while authorities are looking for victims of another crime: the Mississippi Burning case. For much of history, Henry and Charles’s story was a footnote to the Mississippi Burning. Forty years later, Charles’s brother Thomas and a Canadian journalist work to change that.

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In the winter of 1978, a group of friends catches a college basketball game about an hour north of where they live. The game ends, but none of the five men return home. What happens to them next is a complicated mystery that haunts the Sierra Nevadas.

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The last time Telisa Coggins sees her brother alive, he’s walking out of a nightclub in Griffin, Georgia. Tim’s body is later found under an oak tree, mutilated almost beyond recognition. But just as police begin uncovering solid leads, the investigation grounds to a halt. Decades later, a new investigator will start asking: Why?

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On Halloween 1979, a woman is found dead on the side of a highway in Texas. The only clothing she’s wearing is a pair of orange socks. A year later, her case is running cold — and another woman has been found dead off another Texas highway. Two murders, one year apart. What happened to these women? How did they meet such grisly ends? And, most importantly — who are they?

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In 1991 a man was found dead in the trunk of his car. He’d been brutally slain, and despite obvious foul play, leads were hard to come by — until his name began popping up in another investigation. One that was unraveling the threads of an art heist unlike anything the world had ever seen before. 

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No one could write a narcocorrido like Chalino Sánchez. His ballads about Mexico’s anti-heroes made him famous. His murder made him legendary. Thirty years ago, he played his final concert in his hometown: Sinaloa, Mexico. He was found dead the next day — whether at the hands of a cartel hitman, or someone from his past seeking vengeance, no one can say for sure. 

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